1 hour ago, flyboymb said:

Exactly. Why do you think he gave up on saving Dak during the Battle of Hoth? He suddenly realized that if he did anything awesome he'd have to share credit with his gunner. Same reason that he ran off at the first chance to face Vader, why he at first introduced only himself to Princess Leia when he opened her cell when there were two other guys in the cell block with him, and why he didn't even turn around and say 'hey you okay dad?' after he defeated his father in combat.

Luke's a glory hog.

If we want to criticize Wedge for abandoning Luke during the trench run consider the reason that if the enemy decided to pursue him as "an easy kill" they would have had to break off pursuit of Luke giving him an easier time to complete his mission.

Using WWII analogies Wedge would be an initial fighter pass at a bomber formation who then breaks off hoping to draw any escorts after it making the job of his brothers easier.

1 hour ago, Captain Lackwit said:

Yeahhh, if only Luke had some kind of cutting utensil that could easily slice through the hull of even a heavily armored walker. Something that could rapidly cut away the chassis to more easily get at Dak. Something that could be easily stored on a belt and rapidly deployed with the push of a button.

But he made a good show with those couple of tugs.

Also remember how Rogue Leader flew right at the front of the walkers with all the weapons on the front just to have his wingman shot down?

Luke's a psychopath!

umm, Luke wasn't trying to save Dak when he was rooting around back there. He was grabbing the grapple he used to get up to the walker. He knew Dak was already dead.

1 hour ago, flyboymb said:

Yeahhh, if only Luke had some kind of cutting utensil that could easily slice through the hull of even a heavily armored walker. Something that could rapidly cut away the chassis to more easily get at Dak. Something that could be easily stored on a belt and rapidly deployed with the push of a button.

But he made a good show with those couple of tugs.

Also remember how Rogue Leader flew right at the front of the walkers with all the weapons on the front just to have his wingman shot down?

Luke's a psychopath!

Uh.

Okay.

1 hour ago, BadMotivator said:

umm, Luke wasn't trying to save Dak when he was rooting around back there. He was grabbing the grapple he used to get up to the walker. He knew Dak was already dead.

Nah, he reaches in, jostles Dak, completely slips out of the speeder to gawk at the AT-AT, reaches back into the front, grabs the grapple, then ducks out before the foot comes down. It'd be rather redundant to get it out of the back only to set it in the front seat so you can look at the thing that's about to crush you before going to retrieve it again. You never see both of his hands completely in frame, but that grapple is Lego lightsaber huge. There's no way he'd be using his right hand as a support with something that large gripped in it.

In any case, air/space combat is the only medium that we see in all 3 of the films. I don't think the original trilogy really had the chance to create another survivor like Wedge to go from movie to movie. We even switch commands between Dodonna, Rieekan, and Akbar/Mon Mothma so there's not consistency in the Rebellion's leadership. So was Wedge an isolated plot point or just a lack of opportunity to introduce minor characters?

10 hours ago, BadMotivator said:

umm, Luke wasn't trying to save Dak when he was rooting around back there. He was grabbing the grapple he used to get up to the walker. He knew Dak was already dead.

Actually, he knew that Dak had just won big at sabacc the night before, and was rummaging for his wallet.

(Source: Tales of Minor Characters You Never Previously Cared About, Which You'll Buy Anyway Because It's Another Star Wars EU Book)