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
isn't this contrary to the text at the most base level of that the Dark Side is also part of the Force? the entirety of the main series story is of a system falling into a lower energy state (becoming more Harmonious); Anakin's fall was a facet of that state transition.
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Replying to @segfaultvicta @loudpenitent and
Yeah, the movie really really sets it up so you feel that Anakin's fall is inevitable Not to say the movie is great but it does make that intention clear And then the novelization doubles down on it, it has Yoda meditate at length on how there was nothing to be done about it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent and
and like... it's not that there was nothing to be done in some kind of grand mystical sense; in order for things to have turned out differently NOW you'd have to rewind time hundreds of years and make the Jedi -not- suck garden slugs through a tiny straw
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Replying to @segfaultvicta @loudpenitent and
Right, Yoda has this epiphany too late as he flees from his duel with Palpatine that Palpatine himself and his apprentice are just the flaws of the Republic and the Jedi made manifest, respectively
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There was always a hole in their way of thinking and acting that someone was going to fill
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