COVERING THE IMPORTANT STORIES: Star Wars’ Mark Hamill Weighs in on Claim Luke Skywalker Carried Out Terrorist Attack Killing 300K People.

One of the more iconic lines from the Star Wars saga is Obi-Wan saying in Star Wars: Return of the Jedi that he wasn’t factually incorrect when explaining to Luke Skywalker that his father was “killed” by Darth Vader. Kenobi’s confession, “So what I told you was true, from a certain point of view,” is often used to justify any difference in opinion among the series fandom, with a book of short stories even borrowing the phrase as its title to depict a number of stories featuring ancillary characters’ perspectives of iconic events. Mark Hamill couldn’t help but use this familiar phrase when replying to a humorous meme about how Luke Skywalker could be considered a villain in the franchise.

I’m sympathetic. Between Luke Skywalker and the voice of the Joker, Hamill’s career is built around portraying mass-murdering terrorists — and in Skywalker’s case a communist-inspired slave-owning religious fanatic to boot. Even for an actor, it’s got to get to you after a while.