god bless mark hamil
me, wandering shoeless through the snowy wastes of ao3: please… all i want is for luke and leia to have grown up together…… blease…………..
AESTHETICS - STAR WARS 80s AU
featuring high school juniors luke and leia, who go on a cross-country road trip with dropout han and his buddy chewie in an attempt to get revenge at their dad’s shitty boss by tp-ing his mansion in beverly hills.
She’s gone flying with him before—or not with him, but she wore out the BATTLESHIP SIMS: LUKE SKYWALKER EDITION program disc back on Jakku, playing the Hoth Run Sim with the desert winds blowing around her. The Skywalker copilot NPC was cool, collected, often said things like “that was great!” or “you’ve got it!” whenever she blew something up.
The reality is very, very different.
“WHO THE HELL TAUGHT YOU HOW TO FLY,” he bellows at her through the comms from where she’s banished him in the gunner’s bay.
She shrieks back “YOU DID,” as she avoids yet another Tie-fighter, and slams the Falcon into a tailspin.
In “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” Luke Skywalker finally becomes cool
…yes, because what we needed was a “badass Buddhist.”
And here we have the crux of the problem: the irresistible urge that Johnson had to make Luke “cool,” to stop him from being an “earnest do-gooder” because of fanboys’ eternal and unquellable belief that if only Luke had been cooler, he would’ve gotten to fuck Leia in the end.













