Luke Skywalker was a surprise in the Book of Boba Fett Chapter 6, for most fans, for
sure.
Not as big of a surprise as he was at the end of the Mandalorian Chapter 16, but still
a surprise, nonetheless.
But when Luke Skywalker gave poor innocent Grogu a choice…Beskar chainmail armor, or
a lightsaber…go back to his father, Din Djarin, or stay at the new Jedi Academy…some
fans became livid.
How dare they make Luke Skywalker into a monster?!
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Din Djarin shows up at Luke Skywalker’s Jedi Academy, which is still under construction.
He has a gift for his foundling son…a bit of armor made of Beskar chainmail.
Ahsoka convinces Din Djarin to leave the armor with her and get out of there before Grogu
sees him.
Seeing Din Djarin will only make it harder to train the little green fella due to their
attachment for each other.
But as we progress into the story, we see it’s already difficult to train the 50-year-old
man baby…He misses his father…the one who rescued him three times, the one who protected
him, the one who gave him a shiny ball.
And Din Djarin is feeling the same loss.
Then it happened…Luke Skywalker gave Grogu the choice.
Take the Beskar armor or the lightsaber of Luke’s own Jedi master…Yoda.
But the implications of the choice would be life altering.
Take the Beskar and rejoin his Mandalorian adoptive father or take the lightsaber and
complete his Jedi training…never to see Din Djarin again.
This outraged some fans.
The same Luke Skywalker who sought to reform the Jedi Order, knowing that attachments shouldn’t
be suppressed.
Yes, we all know the story.
But was this the right move on the part of Luke Skywalker?
Should he have given Grogu the choice?
Why not let him have both?
A Jedi with Beskar would be a force to be reckoned with…pun intended.
But what seems worse…Luke Skywalker asked a toddler to make a life changing decision.
At least, this is what it looked like on the surface.
Yes, a lot of fans were mad.
I was one of those.
How dare he give a toddler that kind of decision?
We haven’t seen the choice Grogu made.
Also, on surface level we feel like we know what he’s going to pick.
The Beskar makes the most sense out of the gate.
At least when you think of it from a psychological standpoint.
Take a toddler from our own world.
What choice do you think they would make if you presented it like this: You have a choice,
child.
You can either go back to your parents and not be part of this school again…or you
can stay here in school and never see them again.
I know my own kids would pick their family…at least they better.
But as special as my kids are to me, and your kids are to you, they aren’t magical space
wizards.
We know what our kids would choose because kids don’t want to learn school subjects
every day for the rest of their lives, never able to return.
But maybe that was the point of giving Grogu the choice.
Hear me out.
In all the old Expanded Universe material, or Legends, Luke was set on changing the ways
of the Jedi Order.
He wanted to make it one that wasn’t so dogmatic and understood that attachments weren’t
necessarily a bad thing.
I mean, he married Mara Jade…you don’t get much ore attached than that.
But with those ideas comes something deeper and more profound, was it right to take children
from their families to train them and indoctrinate them into the Jedi Order?
No matter what good the Jedi set out to do in the galaxy.
Was the good they were doing enough to counteract the harm they were causing these children?
Well, you COULD say that the Jedi Order seemed to thrive under these conditions and there
didn’t seem to be a problem with it.
And you’d be partially right…except not really.
On one side you have Obi-Wan Kenobi.
A well-adjusted Jedi master who lived for the order and the Republic.
He fell in love but had to forsake that love for what he believed in.
Obi-Wan obviously had no issues with being taken from his life before the Jedi Order.
On the other hand, you have Count Dooku.
A man who was also taken from his family, at the request of his father.
A father that was embarrassed of what Dooku was.
But Dooku had siblings.
He longed for his family his entire Jedi career.
In fact, he left the Jedi Order after his father died and took over as count of his
home planet, he reconnected with his sister and ended up killing his brother.
But the point is, Dooku was not well adjusted in the Jedi Order.
He didn’t deal with the loss of his family the way other Jedi had and ultimately turned
to the dark side.
The same with Anakin Skywalker…someone Luke Skywalker would have studied closely.
Okay, back to Grogu’s choice and why Luke presented it to him.
We know Luke studied the Jedi Order of the past.
Love or hate it, he reveals that in the Last Jedi…also in the game, Jedi: Fallen Order.
To Luke, the reason for their downfall was clear.
An unwillingness to adapt, strict dogma, and hubris.
So, I ask again…then why did he give Grogu a choice based on what he knows didn’t work?
Keep in mind my thoughts behind this hinge on Grogu deciding the Beskar and his father.
But the principles still apply.
Luke knows what Grogu SHOULD pick.
He agrees that Grogu should return to Din Djarin.
Keep listening.
Luke knows the Jedi of the past were wrong.
Taking kids away from their loved ones was not the way to create well rounded Jedi.
Luke himself didn’t begin training in the Force until he was 19 years old.
Look how he turned out.
He had dark side tendencies from day one but didn’t let them take him over completely.
Yes, he had moments of weakness like anyone would, but he always came back around and
stopped himself.
Why?
Because he willingly entered Jedi training.
He wasn’t forced.
Obi-Wan gave him a choice that day in his hut.
Sure, he wanted Luke to join him, but he didn’t try to force him.
When Luke was ready, he began training.
Not before.
The same with Luke Skywalker giving Grogu a choice.
It isn’t that Grogu is given this ultimatum.
Luke wants him to be ready for training, and this isn’t his time.
Grogu needs time to heal from his past.
With the memories Luke showed Grogu, training the little green guy could end badly.
Imagine a Sith with the power of Yoda.
That’s what could be if Grogu isn’t ready to absorb the knowledge.
And Luke knows this.
He wants Grogu to be sure he’s ready.
And he knows at this time Grogu isn’t ready.
So, when we watch the episode for the first time, it’s easy to look at Luke and call
him all kinds of bad names for this.
But in reality, he was helping Grogu.
And if Grogu returns to Jedi training, it’ll be with a clear conscious and nothing holding
him back.
He will be able to focus and be the best Jedi he can be.
One that could rival Yoda.
But what do you think?
Am I way off base?
Is it all just surface level and Luke Skywalker is just a dick for making a toddler choose
something life altering?
Let me know in the comments below.
I do read all of them, even if I can’t respond to them all, you are noticed.
And I do take one to highlight at the end of the next video.
Speaking of which, at this time I’d like to take the time to recognize the top comment
from the last video.
This comment comes from Paragon Piper: “My thought is that Grogu used the Force to kill
those troopers, then had his memories suppressed by the Jedi who found him.
Perhaps Din had his memories tampered with by someone for some important reason.
Something to do with his past.”
This comment came from a video that asked why Din Djarin doesn’t know much about Mandalorian
culture, society, and creed.
Especially given that he’s ben an adult for most of the defining moments in recent
Mandalorian history.
So, thank you so much for that plausible explanation, Paragon Piper.
You could be onto something.
And thank you to everyone who commented.
I am really enjoying the responses I’m getting.
For the most part everyone is being civil.
And that’s what it’s about.
How could Star Wars not be fun?
This is Gerald from Star Wars Fanatic signing off and wishing you all great health and happiness.
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