• caseyweederman@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    Actually in the first second wave of comics, Luke joins the dark side to locate and raze Palpatine’s cloning factory. There’s a deeply meaningful scene where Han and Leia retrieve him and have to convince him that he’s redeemable after everything he did to fit in.

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      10 hours ago

      That’s a cool idea, but my kneejerk reaction would be to fit in to find something else. Cloning takes away meaningfulness from killing Palpy-B

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        7 hours ago

        That’s the point. It took their victory away from them, and would keep doing so.
        The movies fell flat so hard because they didn’t use it as a vehicle to explore anything, characterwise or emotionally. They missed the point and turned it into a plot speed bump.

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          7 hours ago

          I just think bringing in cloning is making Vader’s sacrifice kinda bland

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            3 hours ago

            The prophecy of the Chosen One who would bring balance to the Force for a little while.

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      That was the second wave of comics. The first ones were the ones Marvel put out while the OT was still being made and which continued for a few years after RotJ.