RotJ question: Luke did possess the same anger of his father, but Luke was different from his father such that Luke was not ruled by his emotions. Luke's fight with the dark side was the fight between emotion and reason. But Luke matured as a person and his reason won out over his emotion. The threat upon his sister's life infuriated him to the point where he nearly killed Darth Vader in anger. But it was Luke's reason that overcame his moment of fury and Luke's compassion for his father that won over Vader.Freakzilla wrote:I watched The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi last night.
I have a question from RotJ. Didn't Luke use anger to defeat Darth Vader? Shouldn't that have put him on the path to the dark side which would then forever dominate his destiny? Or did throwing down his light saber put him back on the right path?
My wife asked this while watching ESB:
If Annakin built C3PO, why is there a silver droid that looks just like him at cloud city and why does C3PO recognize him as a "familiar face"?
I told my wife that it was a comon droid model and Annakin just rewired and reprogrammed him.
The irony is that neither Luke nor Vader had any hope of defeating the Emperor. Vader's "plans" were flawed, because even together he and Luke had little hope of defeating the Emperor and ruling the Galaxy as father and son. Ben's "plans" were flawed, because even if Luke defeated Vader, Ben knew Luke had little hope of defeating the Emperor alone. The Emperor's defeat really required a miracle, but the miracle came from the most unexpected place. Luke's compassion for his father was the thing that saved the Galaxy. It turned Vader, who betrayed the Emperor and killed him when he least expected it. Luke became a true Jedi, the triumph of his compassion being the ultimate victory he achieved over evil. Hence "Return of the Jedi", wherein "Jedi" is used both specifically to refer to Luke and non-specifically to refer to the return of those ideals thought to be extinct like the Knights of the Old Republic.
tESB question: Before I answer this question, I'd just like to make it clear that having Anakin build 3PO was a stupid idea and fails on several levels. I make no excuse for it and believe it's a weakness of the new trilogy.
Having said that, C-3PO was never meant to be a one-of-a-kind droid. We see several of him throughout the trilogy, including a silver version in "A New Hope" and in "Return of the Jedi" (as you mentioned). Anakin simply built C-3PO like a mechanic might build a car; the mechanic doesn't design the car like an engineer, but the mechanic builds the car from numerous parts.
C-3PO's response to seeing another droid of the same model was to say "a familiar face in a foreign place", but not literally a droid that he'd recognize as having seen before. 3PO simply saw another protocol droid of the same model and being the polite droid he is, expressed how nice it was to see another of his kind. Like two Canadians who don't know each other meeting in Madagascar; they'd simply be pleased to see a familiar face in a foreign place (ie, "familiar" meaning a fellow countryman).
