What would you do if you were Luke in his sticky situation with Vader?

What would you do in Luke's situation? It would be hard for me to turn away from my father even if I didnt know my father personally. What would you do? I would have probably went with Vader if he was my dad....


Thoughts???

 

Change my name and go into a Self-imposed exile on an unknown world.

 

I don't know exactly what I would do, but I know I would never join a father who...

Had never been there for me.
Ordered his soldiers to murder the closest thing I had ever had to a family (Owen & Beru)
Had murdered the my mentor Kenobi
Had just cut off my hand

 

Ordered his soldiers to murder the closest thing I had ever had to a family (Owen & Beru)

I don't remember that happening. Vader may have given an order for the Stormies to find the droids, collect info, and to take down anyone that gets in the way, but nothing as specific as "go kill the Lars family, here's the address".

 

I think the question is whether or not you'd try to help him. Not join Vader in the dark side, since we all know that we wouldn't. It would be difficult no matter the situation, but it would be best to know all the facts. Before making a sound and lasting decision. I think Luke did the right thing given the circumstances and I would probably handle it along the same lines.

 

Darth_Laudrup
I don't know exactly what I would do, but I know I would never join a father who...

Had never been there for me.
Ordered his soldiers to murder the closest thing I had ever had to a family (Owen & Beru)
Had murdered the my mentor Kenobi
Had just cut off my hand

all cool displays of power though

 

And Hitler never specifically told Heydrich what to do to the Czech people, but I bet it was no party being a citizen of the Czech Republic in those days.

Vader giving the order to take down anything that got in the way made him responsible for what happened and therefor indirectly the killer of Owen & Beru.

 

I didn't need a history lesson, but thanks for that anyways. I'm very much aware that he was indirectly responsible for their deaths. You just made it sound like Vader sent them directly to the Lars homestead.

 

sorry. It was in no way meant to be a history lesson

 

No prob man.

 

Same here.

 

actually i think i would volunteer to go join Vader in the dark side, but that's just me.

 

Oh, I'd be tempted and I could actually see attempting to feign loyalty and then trying to escape later, but that would likely be how I fell.

 

Now that I think of it...I would let go as well..but me....I would SCREAM as I fall...just to piss off the O-OT's purists!

 

I would try to sneak around him.....and make a run for it.

 

After hearing Obi-Wan tell me about my father and seeing as though my father's past life of a Jedi impacted me to follow in his footsteps, I would try to claim my father from the dark side of the Force, just like Luke did.

 

I'd do the same thing Luke did, or, I'd keep trying to save him. Just because Anakin Skywalker joined the Dark Side and became a Sith Lord officialy doesn't mean he wanted to, He had no idea what he was doing. Being a Darth means you are 100% evil. He wasn't evil like his master. He was just angry and pissed off all the time. He didn't know how to control his anger untill it got the best of him. I would just be a Dark Jedi. I'd never intentionally join the dark side and become a Sith Lord. HELL NO! Anakin screwed up!

 

it is actually quite surprising that Luke did not develop hatred for his father. afterall , his father did not die, he abandoned Luke (the storylines that I have seen do not state whether Luke was aware that Vader did not know he bore children)

when I originally watched the movies, I thought that Vader knew he was going to have children but then ordered his wife into exile so that his children would never know what actually happened to their father.

 

lol.

 

I don't think I would have had the guts to jump off that platform. I don't like heights.

So I'd probably pretend to join Vader, then steal a ship when I got the chance.

As far as wanting to join him - no way. The man just tried to kill me, and now he's talking about being pals?

 

I would probably get up and try to kick him. Things would go poorly, but that is what I would do.

This makes me think about something else......Luke wanted to go to the Academy. If he would have went, Vader would have eventually heard of the exploits of a very very good pilot and would have went to check his abilities out. He probably would have felt the force in Luke at that time, Luke would have gotten a promotion.....and another Skywalker would have become a Sith.

Because Owen did not let Luke go to the Academy, Owen is the hero of the Saga!

Carnage

 

All nice theories. I honestly don't know.

 

Well even though he's Luke's father, he doesn't know him, doesn't even know of him until he blows up the death star.At first it's obvious of his intentions to use Luke, train him as an apprentice, destroy the Empire and keep Luke at his heel like the emporer did to him.

I don't see why Luke had such a hard time killing Vader, he may have been his father but where was he when Luke was growing up?Just a thought in Luke's head imaginatory as it was.He may of felt the good within vader, and the conflict, but I've seen Star Wars atleast a thousand time and I'm still unconvinced that he's gonna turn back because it always seems so unrealistic and Vader always seems so cold towards his son.

 

He grew up believing that his father was a good man, maybe somewhat dreaming of becoming like his father - a great fighter pilot. Suddenly he has his hand chopped off by this evil brutal dictator type that he finds out....is his father. Obi-Wan had told him his father was a good friend. Obi-Wan had also told him that Vader was evil and betrayed and murdered his father. The poor boy was confused at this point.

He started thinking at realized......his father didn't want to kill him. Perhaps there was good in him. Perhaps he MEANT what he said about ending this destructive conflict....He found out that was a lie, but he had so many different "Points of View" that all he could do was trust his feelings....and those feelings said that his father was good.

Carnage

 

I might just try to wear Vader down with conversation. I don't think I could just take that fall. Maybe guilt Vader into being a deadbeat dad or something. If an hour or two of that didn't help, I'd probably just give in and escape later. Just willingly falling into that abyss takes a hell of a lot of guts.

-NJM