I do love Luke..but I have a problem with him too. One, he is such a whiney baby in the first movie. Like- get over it and do your work and THEN you can go to the Toshi Station to pick up power converters. Second, once he becomes a Jedi he gets waaaayyy to serious. He's know fun anymore after that. I hear in the later books he lightens up a bit and gets hitched, but before that he definetly had an attitude problem.
see, i think these are the things i like about him. He has a lot of issues, which is great, it makes him realistic, in the first movie, he's such a baby, totally immature...then he overdoes the maturing thing, by being too serious, showing that he still hasn't really gotten life down yet. It's totally a learning process with him, i really like that. Seems like he had trouble finding himself, i like that his character isn't the standard "perfect hero" that so many stories are used to
I think you've hit the nail right on the head with this one.
Yeah he does get better later on in the books.Especially in the New Jedi Order Series.