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I just saw Revenge of the Sith again
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It was so incredibly sad, Natalie Portman died of sadness. I always thought that sort of thing was reserved for people who lost their spouse of fifty years, and kind of really only worked because they were super old anyway.
I dunno why Anakin didn't just bail on the whole Jedi thing after they told him he couldn't be with Padme. It's not like his Force powers were dependant on an active membership or something; he could've just quit, married his smoking hot Senator wife without having to hide it, and remained her personal bodyguard without all the control and manipulation from the Jedi.
Pretty fuckin' stupid too how he sided with Palpatine when he was Force lightning-ing Mace Windu and Mace was merely defending himself with his lightsaber, though I can kind of understand how he'd reached a breaking point. But then, he's just like "In for a penny, in for a pound, I guess I'm completely evil now" and goes to kill a bunch of children, many of whom he probably not only knew but likely participated to some extent in their training... that's even lazier storytelling than "Somehow, Palpatine returned."
Oh yeah, gotta give a shout out to "You can't win, I have the high ground!" coming from the guy who defeated Darth Maul while he had the high ground. Fuckin' brilliant.
One of my favourite things is how the prequel trilogy very justifiably got shat all over in the years following its release, until comparatively recently when the Internet just collectively decided that it was actually really good and people only claimed to dislike it because they thought it was cool to hate.
... the kids who grew up with the prequels became the majority on the internet. The original hate was from those who grew up with the original Trilogy.
I'm defs one of those kids. I think the prequels hate is being blown out of proportion to discredit the sequels hate. My dad loved OGs and the prequels. I grew up playing all the snes star wars games. Darth Vader gave me nightmares watching the OGs in preparation for TPM. We saw Episodes 1 & 2 in theatre together. At school Phantom Menace was THE most culturally relevant thing to us kids I can remember before 9/11.
So people lose me with the "Sequels are the young generation's Star Wars" argument. Cuz my generation didn't reject the OG's at all. Everyone I knew as a kid was collecting star wars cards/lego from both TPM and OGs.
IMO Star Wars fans we're well within their rights to have higher expectations of the sequels than the prequels... for the simple fact that the sequels are the end of the saga. People can push through a slow start but a story with a bad ending is never cherished.
Grew up, in this case, would mean your childhood included said media. Yeah, you had the OT in your childhood too, but the prequels weren't strangers there either. Adult star wars fans at the time wanted something for their nostalgia.
I read in a Star Wars book that Palpatine killed Padme with the force or something to kill any human emotion left in Anakin. The scene where he yells Nooooooooooooooo you can see him grinning. Maybe this is one of those now non-canon things.
Not a book, it's purely fan theory. Canon explanation is she died of sadness. Even book versions of the movie would corroborate this.
It's almost like characters can be complex and flawed and not make perfect decisions forever 🙄
Also, do you chastise partners in abusive relationships for not "just bailing"? Like, we have irl examples of how relationships like this work. And you're saying " whY dIDn'T hE JusT lEaVe?/??/?" like it's insightful?
I guess a "troubled person" would just thoughtlessly kill a bunch of kids he spent quite some time with on a whim.
"On a whim". No need to take into account the 3+ movies of context preceding that one scene, I guess.