For as much complaining, joking, and even objective analyzing people do concerning how…young Luke comes across in the first acts of A New Hope, I’ve yet to see anyone actually give him credit for staying home on Tatooine and fulfilling his obligations to his aunt and uncle, despite how frustrated, stifled, and bored out of his mind he was. I mean, he was 19, he was grown (enough), he could’ve just been like, Screw this, I’m outta here, and ditched them. Aunt Beru was even sympathetic to his plight. But Luke was loyal to her and Owen, sucked it up, and took care of his responsibilities. Never mind that Owen was most likely repeatedly adding responsibilities and moving the goalposts on when Luke could leave because he didn’t want him to leave because he was trying to keep him safe on Tatooine because he knew things about Luke that Luke was still unaware of… Because Luke didn’t know all that, he just knew that his aunt and uncle’s need for him to help on the farm outweighed how much they cared about how held back he felt. So he stayed, and he was bored, and he did his chores, and he eked out bits of relative fun when he could, and when the weird old wizard hermit man who claimed to have known his dead father invited him on a mission presented by a beautiful princess from a far-off planet, he was like, No. I can’t just up and leave my family and my place here. It took tragically losing his family and his place and having nothing left to stay for before he would “accept the call”. But before that, Luke was reliable and dutiful as hell. As well as very respectful and loyal to the people who raised him–basically his adoptive parents. Even in the face of his growing frustration and wanderlust. And that’s something to be admired and commended. That’s a strength of character. So just saying, it’d be nice to see more recognition of that in between the constant snickering about Tosche Station. It’s been 40 years, we get it. Now credit where credit is due.
This! He’s really responsible and loyal, and the snickering about ~power converters~ always annoy me since we know exactly what he actually wants (some of that attempt at fun, since he wanted to go meet his friends, not pick up actual power converters).
one of my favorite lotr facts is that gondorians speak sindarin as a first language and yet when faramir was talking to frodo and sam about cirith ungol he was like “we don’t know what’s in there.” like faramir. cirith ungol is sindarin for “pass of the spider.” do the math
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Don’t forget that Frodo also speaks Sindarin, which makes this even worse.
Faramir: Hey, don’t go up the Spider Stairs.
Frodo: Why? What’s up the Spider Stairs?
Faramir: We don’t know, Frodo. We just don’t know.
the other night i tried to make a curry and i got chilli burns all over my face, so i thought to myself ‘hang on, doesn’t milk soothe chilli burns? it does’ and i couldn’t google because i couldn’t see so i just had to blindly feel my way to the fridge and pour out a bowl of milk, and then plant my face in the bowl of milk, anyway at that point the rice cooker went off and triggered a power surge which turned my electricity off, which i didn’t notice at first because i had my face in a bowl of milk and when i did emerge from the dairy prison i thought i had gone blind with chilli burns. so no i don’t really cook much.
the appeal of buzzfeed unsolved is that it’s not just a wacky believer and a strait-laced skeptic bc the skeptic is much weirder as a person than the believer. obviously the classic scully/mulder dynamic is very entertaining but there’s just something about a man who firmly does not believe in ghosts but does believe that it’s ok to eat a pickle floating in a pond “if it’s fresh”
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