Poe loves to help Ben Jedi train early in the morning. Yavin IV sunrise is the best time for a kiss or two after a hard workout. Poe is always very impressed by Ben’s great moves, and Ben is thankful for the training help. It gets pretty hot in the temple once the sun comes up! Sometimes they have to lose a few layers… Part of the Yavin IV Series
So I just finished watching ‘The Book Of Boba Fett’… shut up, i like to enjoy the anticipation…. and one thing this does really well is explain a lot about the last three movies. Luke, specifically.
Because Luke in TBOBF is just… he’s trying, he’s really trying, bless his cotton socks, but he is straight up garbage at this. Two things specifically are so apparent, so quickly, and they just… it all makes sense now.
1. Luke has absolutely no idea how to handle children. None,. He’s clearly never even babysat. Not even once. I’m pretty confident that this is a man who’s never even had a pet. He makes young Obi-Wan trying to handle a cranky child in Phantom Menace look like Father of the Year, he’s that bad. He’s trying to train a toddler the same way he was trained when he was a young adult. No wonder he messed up so badly with Ben. This man should never, under any circumstances, have been left alone with a child without some instruction.
2. Luke does not seem to understand that he was trained on 3X Fast Forward Because There Is A War On. He got a high-speed crash course on Basic High Points from Yoda who knew he could drop dead of old age at any moment and did not have time to coddle this guy, Yoda, who let us not forget had quite possibly never trained an Adult Beginner in his ENTIRE LIFE and was just trying to give him the important stuff as fast as possible. So Luke’s internalized his High Speed Extremely Basic Training as How Jedi Training Is Done, and he’s attempting to replicate it with a confused and traumatized toddler. Just… why. Honey, WHY.
I wanted to hit Ahsoka with a stick. She had real training! She had the knowledge Luke clearly desperately needs! And she just… y’know… wandered off and left him to it.
I mean, nobody can blame Grogu at this point for the decision he makes. Grogu is sat down and told he has to make a Permanent Life Decision AS A TODDLER (look, I know it’s a Lone Wolf And Cub tribute, I got that, but still). So he has his little think and the basic information Grogu has at this point is ‘I am presented with a choice between two well-meaning anxiety-riddled idiots who know nothing about children, one of whom loves me, protects me, even removed his helmet for me which was a big deal, and the other of whom is THIS GUY who keeps trying to make me remember bad things and never cuddles me ever’.
Grogu may be a toddler, but he’s not stupid.
This Luke is directly on track for being a Bitter Hermit Who Failed At Restarting The Jedi. He’s crap at his job, he’s getting no help at all, and his first student just toddled out of the temple metaphorically shouting ‘later, loser, I’mma be a Mandalorian’. It all makes sense now, it really does.
