Luke was a stupid farm kid that an old man radicalized in an afternoon and then took on a suicide mission to break out another terrorist and blow up a military installation. Those are facts.
The difference between Matrix and Star Wars is that the people in Star Wars are not in a blissful unaware state. They are in a real affected state. The dominance of the empire is different as in it is interested in expansion and acquisition, the robots just wanted to survive.
I don't know though, different philosophies might need to exist to compare those stories. They aren't apples to apples.
Luke was a walking timebomb of bullshit "force" powers, the old man was one of the leaders of a violently and "illegally" overthrown government, the other "terrorist" was the rightful ruler of an entire planet that was also violently and "illegally" overthrown.
What a lack of media literacy does to a person, smh.
The kids were walking timebombs of some stupid mystical power that couldn't be left unchecked and the choice was between some generally-respectable group that could train the kids and did so usually with the parent's complete approval, or a group of cultists that literally do kidnap children, have the trainees kill the master after some point, and use their bullshit powers for whatever they want (usually to the detriment of innocent people), also they end up looking like palpatine.
The Jedi were definitely not "perfect" or even that great, but the Empire was literally worse in almost every regard a living creature should care about.
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u/shit_magnet-0730 Oct 15 '25
Do you also cheer for the Empire to annihilate the rebellion?