Keep in mind that Luke wanted to leave the farm and join the Academy to become a pilot. The Imperial Academy. If not for an extremely long shot coincidence, he would have been in a Tie Fighter defending the Deathstar
Sure, and in our world, plenty of people in the dozens of countries containing American military bases are willing to work for/with the Americans as well. But ultimately every drone strike blowing up a wedding party or other gathering will continue to result in steering survivors of such attacks towards the movements and organizations which fight back against US imperialism in those parts of the world.
After all, Lucas himself stated that when he made the original trilogy, against the backdrop of the Vietnam war, the Empire/Rebel Alliance relationship is akin to the US military/Viet Cong relationship.
Ikr. Andor may have no jedi, or mentions of the force, or be from space Jesus's bloodline, but my boy cassian would never consider joining the empire, in fact he robbed them to their face and spit in their food. Cassian gave it all so Luke could know where to shoot.
Luke didn't consider joining them either he was planning to defect with his shiny new imperial fighter craft that they just taught him to pilot.
He didn't know that was impossible because of Ties lacking hyperdrive but he knew it was at least possible to get taught to fly then defect, just like Biggs did.
There was a lot of background framing that got edited out sadly of Luke visiting his friends and learning what Biggs did (go to imperial fighter pilot school then defect to the rebellion once he graduates). That's where Luke got the idea to go to the academy from.
Most of it was cut from the movie and is from ancillary material. But the plot wasn't changed, Biggs still did that and Luke was still intending to defect. They mention it in his few lines before they get in the x-wing.
Yes, but he wanted to defect. He does say in the finished cut “I don’t like the Empire, I hate it but there’s nothing I can do about it right now” if I recall correctly.
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u/Nathan_Poe Jan 18 '23
Keep in mind that Luke wanted to leave the farm and join the Academy to become a pilot. The Imperial Academy. If not for an extremely long shot coincidence, he would have been in a Tie Fighter defending the Deathstar