How come Anakin Skywalker is too old to train in Jedi way and Luke gets a free pass?
In Star Wars movies, it is said that Anakin Skywalker is way older than the age he is supposed to start training, however strangely enough Luke gets his training in his adulthood?
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Anakin Skywalker was taken to the Jedi Order for training. At that time, it was unusual for them to train anyone as old as Anakin, for various reasons. The fact that Anakin is so powerful in the Force that they ended up training him anyway. (In hindsight, all the people who said he was too old were probably right.)
Luke was not trained by the Jedi Order; there was no Jedi Order. As far as Yoda knew, Luke was literally the only person left in the galaxy that could be trained as a Jedi. Even then, note that Yoda runs down a laundry list of things wrong with Luke, and his age is on that list:
BEN'S VOICE: So was I, if you'll remember.
YODA: He is too old. Yes, too old to begin the training.
But ultimately, Yoda has to train Luke because there isn't anyone else.
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The Anakin who had been taught by Qui-Gon Jinn, however, would have been a very different person. For one thing, he wouldn't have belonged to the Jedi in the first place. Anakin was infatuated with Padm\xe9 from the moment he first set eyes on her in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace.Why did Luke start training so late?
There was no time to plan. Luke was not meant to be a great Jedi. Obi-Wan was there to protect him from Vader, not to train him. Perhaps at first he thought those to things would be one in the same, but with Uncle Owen pushing him away, Obi-Wan would have taken a more silent protector role, than a mentor/trainer.Are Ezra Bridger and Luke the same age?
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