Okay, well, @saintwalker98 is right though, if the Force can make one impossible thing happen it could make infinite impossible things happen, it could've saved all their lives
It just didn't
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
Even from an in-universe POV this is an extremely bitter pill to swallow, this is explicitly why Anakin turns to the Dark Side, because he can't follow the Jedi Code and adopt a stance of stoic fatalism and detachment about it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
This movie was a tragedy (as was the prequel trilogy) and the whole thing about tragedies is they are by definition hard to take You can believe in the Jedi notion that attachment should be avoided because we all merge with the Force in the end anyway But it's painful and hard
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Replying to @arthur_affect @EmilyUnbound and
Or you can simply accept that sometimes shit is bigger than you.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @EmilyUnbound and
Well, some of us can Anakin couldn't Part of the plan that was bigger than him was that he not be able to (so can you really blame him)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
That's part of the paradox here, because to get all mad at Anakin like his nature isn't also part of the will of the Force the way Obi-Wan did is itself to be a bad Jedi
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Replying to @arthur_affect @EmilyUnbound and
I mean, that's not necessarily true either, that's assuming a perspective of absolute predestination
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Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and
Anakin falls because he is going in contrast to what the Force wanted him to do and following the Dark Side instead. This isn't a very foreign concept.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and
so I guess the notion of free will just takes it full in the ass, you either obey the force or get ruined, yeah this is a power we should cower before instead of destroying the universe
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Replying to @saintwalker98 @loudpenitent and
i don't think you have a choice, really, in-setting, but i like the cut of your jib
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The fun thing about determinism is you can do whatever you want, because the ONLY thing you can do is whatever you want You hating the Force and wanting to destroy it is, itself, the will of the Force
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Replying to @arthur_affect @segfaultvicta and
That's the whole deal in KotOR 2 and Kreia's angst about this exact topic
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Replying to @arthur_affect @segfaultvicta and
And as I said elsewhere KotOR2 is fundamentally not actually engaging with Star Wars, it's a bad faith take on the basic concept.
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