midnight rambler





”The force is with you, young Skywalker, but you are not a Jedi yet”


tagged as: #fuck yeah star wars #perfect movie #i am dead srs about this. the empire strikes back does not waste a moment #i could write a whole mess of tags about every different scene giffed here #i won't #but okay let's just talk for a second about top-left for a second #vader is fucking playing with luke. he holds him off with one hand. he's just stalling. just waiting #luke is 100% not ready and it leads to bottom-left over there #now when i say not ready i don't mean he hasn't been trained enough in swordplay (....lightsaber play?) #cause he never really gets no schoolin' on that #it's the force. he can feel it but can't control it yet. #that's WHY he walked into that trap because he's still vulnerable to manipulation to his own emotions #not the essential warrior-monk that is a true jedi #now compare that fight to the fight between the same people in the next movie #in return of the jedi; luke is Pure Zen. UNTIL that part when vader starts taunting him #talking about his dead mentors and finally about leia and luke fucking gets pissed #he just starts WHALING on him. relentlessly. no more finesse than he really had in this fight here where he was hopelessly outmatched #now he's just essentially pounding on vader because once again he was drawn in; guy was playing with him #only this time he gets passive so luke can go dark side #vader was prepared to die for this. #so when he cuts off his hand luke sees the parallel and understands and realizes the trap he's in and disengages #the emperor was proving a point that hate and anger can make powerful allies. luke IS tempted but he pulls himself back #his arc is complete. #the emperor calls him JEDI and means it for the first time because that's luke's crowning moment when he became one #luke's not even my favourite but his arc is fucking awesome and we feel the shit out of it #and then vader gets one of the best redemption moves i know #aaaaaand now i just wanna watch this whole series. FUCK #maybe in a bit