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Yeah… Except Leia has been working with the resistance since very young age, against the Galactic Empire. Not to say Luke’s got it easy but Leia has had some hard and dangerous life while Luke has been chilling farmer life
This was the biggest failing of Obi-wan Kenobi (the series) to me. They tried to make it a Leia story at the same time and neither character got the focus they needed. They should have been two separate series.
The kenobi series broke the lore. So basically, it doesn’t exist in Star Wars canon.
Leia gets kidnapped and Kenobi, her father a public figure doesnt make it known, and then Kenobi instantly comes to her rescue. Cool… Leai has ties to Kenobi. Surely Darth Vader wont persue that to kill Kenobi again or explore that further…
The lore’s been broken since The Force Awakens. Best to just ignore the Disney continuity entirely.
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Who is Uncle Owen anyways? Luke’s only family members are all royalty.
After Anakin’s mom was freed she married a moisture farmer and had more kids (or the farmer already had them). So Uncle Owen is either Luke’s half-uncle or his step-uncle.
Owen is the son of Cliegg Lars and another woman who died before Cliegg married Anakin’s mom. So he is Luke’s step-uncle.
She was a freaking queen. That doesn’t sound right.Oh, you said Anakin’s mom. Wouldn’t that make Owen Luke’s step-grandfather?
Edit 2: nvm, I got what you’re saying now. Anakin’s Mom’s kid is raising Luke. Gotcha.
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Are you thinking of Luke’s mom?
She’s definitely got it going on
Oh, yes. So Luke was raised by Anakin’s mom? Wouldn’t Anakin think to look there for him, or like, visit his mom sometimes?
Edit: I thought his mom was killed by the Sand People.
His mom’s brother? Who was a slave elsewhere and Anakin never knew him maybe? Or thought he was dead? Then the republic found him but Vader did not? I dunno
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Yeah Bail also was no slouch either, was interesting reading some of his backstory and war interactions in some of the Legends books.
Are we ever giving any indication that being a moisture Farmers all that hard? Other than the fact that they have slaves, I’m sorry droids, to do most of the hard work for them what do they actually do? I mean harvesting moisture is about setting up an apparatus and just letting it pull moisture from the air right? He maintain the machines is that right?
Man, just existing on Tatooine is hard work.
-It’s a desert planet run by crime lords.
-The natives carry rifles and kidnap people just to torture them to death.
-There are little goblins driving tanks around the countryside stealing anything that isn’t sand.
-The sand is rough and coarse and irritating and it gets everywhere.
-Krayt Dragons
What 20 years of moisture farming does to a MF:
To be fair, I think just living on Tatooine does that to you:
Double suns take their toll on the skin
It’s all that sun. Turns youthful skin into aged leather.
Well, it’s always easy to do a little of something. When you are producing as an actual job, then that’s entirely different. Scale is a problem in it of itself. “Just maintaining” machines is actually a lot of work.
I’m sure it is for the droids
Especially since we see them buy second-hand droids that are decades old. Or assembling their own from scrap.
He maintained the droids which maintained the machines. Working from home job.
Uncle Owen definitely pretended he really needed Luke’s labor
You could tell he was acting
Honestly Star Wars is a made up story played by actors. Change my mind
It wasn’t just droids either, Owen’s dad had human slaves as well.
Very true.
They didn’t even flip a coin, Bail Organa was all “my wife and I always wanted a daughter” and wisked Leia away to Alderaan and they stuck Luke with the son of a slave owner who talked shit about Luke’s dad for Luke’s entire life. Owen didn’t even know that Anakin became Vader he was trying to make Luke feel bad enough to stay in the shitty circumstances he lived in.
The shooting womp rats for fun is starting to make sense now.
I’d be interested to see a ‘what if’ showing if Luke and Leia swapped childhoods
Would Luke be the tough one and Leia the whiney one? Because if they still had their original personalities, I wonder if a non-jedi trained Luke would have been able to resist the torture to find the location of the rebel base like Leia did.
No power in the universe can take the whiny out of Luke.
That was one of the few things episode 8 got right. Except Luke would go save his friends while whining.
Leia’s at Tosche station getting her damn power converters, no matter what Owen says. Him and Beru are still super dead when she gets back. The old guy they hung out with sometimes shows up once she’s buried them… and he has to talk her out of shooting up an imperial convoy. She’s ready to bullseye some Stormtroopers in her T-16 when he recognizes his old astromech droid and thumps a hidden message out of it: some pretty-boy diplomat pleading for his help, by name.
Said pretty-boy recorded that message shortly before getting lifted by the throat. He makes no excuses about being an ambassador; he personally volunteered to exfiltrate stolen plans from a secure location, and immediately boarded the fastest ship at his disposal. He zooped out of Imperial space without so much as filing a flight-plan. He’s halfway to Yavin by they time they realize the plans are missing. Once the Empire’s much faster ships catch up, he’s afforded no kindness and has no clever snark. He laughs in Tarkin’s face for showing up in-person at a combat site, and when Vader hoists him against a wall, he spits in the creepy bastard’s plastic eyes.
One funny implication is that the dramatic rope swing on the Death Star plays out roughly the same. It’s just, instead of Luke being surprised when the freshly-rescued princess blasts some mooks, it’s the badass-bitch protagonist surprised she’s getting Errol Flynn’d out of a tight spot by an aristocrat who’s never heard of fear.
Somehow the guy who grew up in a desert working on a farm in an environment meant for Fremen whined more than his twin sister who had a princess title. Mean it’s worth a bit of bitching afterwards when you get some perspective but get a bit of resilience from your upbringing.
