a brief thought on ROTJ
Jan. 5th, 2018 01:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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pearwaldorf:
fialleril:
Listen, there is an approximately 0% chance that Luke Skywalker doesn’t speak Huttese. He is fluent in Huttese, and probably in multiple dialects. He was beyond any doubt perfectly capable of communicating with Jabba the Hutt directly, in Jabba’s own language.
But he doesn’t. He insistently uses Basic when talking to Jabba, and he makes Threepio translate Jabba’s words before he replies. He acts for all the world as if he needs the translation.
Which he doesn’t. And Jabba must know damn well that he doesn’t. Because he introduced himself as Luke Skywalker, and that’s an unmistakably Tatooine name (and a slave name, at that).
Conclusion: Literally every word Luke Skywalker speaks throughout his interaction with Jabba if a veiled “fuck you.” Every single word.
#yes. absolutely. hard agree.#80% of luke’s interaction with jabba has to be him seizing the opportunity to realize a fantasy of every single child on tatooine has had#to return to your dusty nowhere hellhole of a planet better and stronger (a JEDI!) and strike down the petty mob boss#that everyone lives in fear of#(I always wondered if they stuck around afterwards if they went to Toshe or something just to stop and refuel; get something to eat#and the people who had known Luke growing up saw—wondered—#Luke is very strange after Yoda; he’s more a Jedi than he was before and I can’t help but think that there#in his hometown #people would notice and people would whisper) (notbecauseofvictories)
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pearwaldorf:
fialleril:
Listen, there is an approximately 0% chance that Luke Skywalker doesn’t speak Huttese. He is fluent in Huttese, and probably in multiple dialects. He was beyond any doubt perfectly capable of communicating with Jabba the Hutt directly, in Jabba’s own language.
But he doesn’t. He insistently uses Basic when talking to Jabba, and he makes Threepio translate Jabba’s words before he replies. He acts for all the world as if he needs the translation.
Which he doesn’t. And Jabba must know damn well that he doesn’t. Because he introduced himself as Luke Skywalker, and that’s an unmistakably Tatooine name (and a slave name, at that).
Conclusion: Literally every word Luke Skywalker speaks throughout his interaction with Jabba if a veiled “fuck you.” Every single word.
#yes. absolutely. hard agree.#80% of luke’s interaction with jabba has to be him seizing the opportunity to realize a fantasy of every single child on tatooine has had#to return to your dusty nowhere hellhole of a planet better and stronger (a JEDI!) and strike down the petty mob boss#that everyone lives in fear of#(I always wondered if they stuck around afterwards if they went to Toshe or something just to stop and refuel; get something to eat#and the people who had known Luke growing up saw—wondered—#Luke is very strange after Yoda; he’s more a Jedi than he was before and I can’t help but think that there#in his hometown #people would notice and people would whisper) (notbecauseofvictories)
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