I love this whole reading and it just makes me like the sequels even more. The idea that evil is cyclical and never fully defeated is so powerful to me right now because it’s so demonstrably true. Accepting that is so hard but so necessary. You pass on the fight.
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Replying to @della_morte_ @mattsaler and
The movie isn't saying that Luke is right to fall into despair after his failure but it is saying that there isn't any "answer" to failure, that you can't get anywhere by dissecting it and trying to make sense of it and trying to undo it or make it never happen again
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Replying to @arthur_affect @della_morte_ and
The only thing you can do is accept it and move on to the next thing Which, of course, is much easier said than done
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Replying to @arthur_affect @della_morte_ and
Tbh as much as I despise Mary Sue accusations and as absurd as Rey being Rule 63 Ken Palpatine is, I do think it gives more weight to Luke's terror over Rey's "darkness" in TLJ, especially since he says he recognized her from the beginning
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Replying to @arthur_affect @della_morte_ and
Luke and Lando's last big adventure wasn't just trying to capture Palpatine's last Jedi hunter Ochi to find out where he was getting his missions from It was also to find out what that last mission *was*
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Replying to @arthur_affect @della_morte_ and
He probably did find out that Ochi murdered Palpatine's son after trying and failing to find Palpatine's secret granddaughter Possibly considered extending his adventure to finding her himself before thinking better of it "I'm not going to do that to another child"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @della_morte_ and
Think about it, he decides to give up, let the story play out without him, retire alone and in obscurity And then the story comes to him Out of nowhere, Palpatine's Secret Master Plan that he'd given up on figuring out and decided didn't exist, just shows up at his doorstep
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Replying to @arthur_affect @della_morte_ and
All of those years of searching and worrying and speculating and the answer just falls into his lap Palpatine's great secret weapon with which he will undo his defeat from beyond the grave is *right here* and she's demanding that he train her and become her role model
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Replying to @arthur_affect @della_morte_ and
It must feel like the Force is taunting him right in his face
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Replying to @arthur_affect @della_morte_ and
That same hesitation he had with Ben Solo is now washing back over him like a tidal wave "Well what the fuck do I do NOW" Is all of this Palpatine's last sick joke, to groom the last Skywalker into a boytoy for his own devil spawn and make them kiss and have Sith babies
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He can't kill her, he doesn't trust himself to teach her, the best he can do is what he does do for much of the movie, which is deliberately waste her time and try to convince her not to seek power at all
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Replying to @arthur_affect @della_morte_ and
It really does give some extra oomph to his look of horror and rage when he senses Rey communing with the buried Sith temple "It offered you something you needed, and you didn't even hesitate At the first opportunity you went straight to the darkness"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @della_morte_ and
And, like, he literally explodes when he sees Rey and Kylo Force-Skyping Which may not just be fear for Rey but anger at *Kylo* "So THIS was the explanation the whole time, Ben? You were driven to evil because you have a perverted kink for Palpatines?!"
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