Luke Skywalker

[Frank White]

I was rewatching ANH the other day and I was thinking... the Owen and Beru death scene was really weird. Did anybody else find Luke's reaction completely unrealistic. His adoptive parents were just killed and worse than that burning in front of him. And all he did was look down and sort of shed a tear? I dont expect him to start shouting NO!!!!!(although it would be in character:sad: ) but can he show some emotion. He seems more hurt by Obi-Wan's death than his parents.(And even then he snaps out of it mintues later) Maybe Luke was some acceptance issues or something.

[Obi]

I found that a bit...disturbing, too.


Though if you noticed, Leia doesn't seem to react to Alderaan being blown up much either. Aside frmo her pleading for it to be saved and going "No!" before it blows up, the rest of the movie she basically shrugs it off. Examples: When Luke busts into her cell, she's just laying there instead of...oh, I don't know, crying. And when they get to the rebel base, she says that there's no time for grieving. It's not so much the line but the way she says it. It's like "Oh yeah, Alderaan's gone.........yeah. No time for that."

[Simpler Simon]

To be honest the first two years I watched Star Wars, I could never make out the smoldering corpses. Eventually I had to freeze-frame to see what the corpses looked like. Maybe Luke had that trouble too...

Also, I'm assuming a bit of time passes until Luke returns to Obi-Wan, because by then they've finished burning all the Jawa corpses. Grieving off-screen? And Obi-Wan was cut-down unexpectedly in front of Luke. It's a slightly different experience I guess.

[PaQ]

I think the shock of seeing Obi-Wan get cut down right in front of him led to a larger outburst than for Owen and Beru.

Also probably for the fact that Ben was his connection to his dad, Kenobi talked about Anakin, while Owen always shied away from that topic of conversation and also kept Luke tied down to the farm, when it was obvious he just wasn't cut out to be a farmer and wanted to be in the skies like his father before him.

Probably just assume he grieves off-screen on his way back to Kenobi and the droids.

[HellCat]

I agree that there was likely off-screen grieving. I'd say Luke would have reacted worse if he hadn't met Ben and subsequently received the offer to join the rebels because then he'd have nowhere to go. It's a case of "You're gone now....but I will avenge you!". Luke's reasons for becoming a Jedi early on are fueled by a desire for adventure and revenge, a fact Yoda berates him for in ESB.