Nice, agree or disagree this is good work.
Obi-wan and Luke are the Ambiguously Good duo?
Did Darth Vader have to wear pampers to avoid electrocution?
This is because the Jedi were never meant to be a galactic MI6 operating out of a mega mosque -- only 20 years earlier.
I always thought it odd that Vader so quickly recognized Luke as his offspring, but not Leia (who clearly was just as powerful in the force). Maybe he did, but didn't want to reveal this to the Emperor.
“Is Darth really so evil? He’s supposed to torture Leia to find the location of the rebel base, but we show no signs he ever did.”
There is a radio-play version, six hours long, which spends significant time on Leia’s tortured interrogation. Trust me: there’s a reason it’s not expanded on in the PG-rated movie - the agony & terror involved would have pushed the rating well into R.
I hear he was also a Brony.
To go along, there’s a popular theory circulating that Jar-Jar was actually a high-level Sith Lord, expert in the Jedi version of “drunken fighting” and using the protagonists to advance his own goals. This well explains his incredible ability to look like a bumbling idiot yet slaughtering vast numbers of Empire troops in the process.
Alas, audiences didn’t get the Drunken Master reference, the plot plan backfired, and Lucas abandoned his plans for the big reveal & downfall of JJ in episodes 2 & 3.
IIRC, the Sith were always only two: the master and the student.
How only two balance the hundreds or thousands of Jedi is yet another unanswerable question.
Fun topic, though.
I thought it was Anakin Skywalker who was the hero.
Darth Vader was a skulking sidekick to the Emperor who was a failure as a leader. Vader? Lost TWO Death Stars.
Anakin killed off the Emperor.
The whole thing is the Decline and Rise of Anakin Skywalker.
Yoda and the Jedi are the biggest incompetents. Yoda’s old padawan was Dooku, Sith traitor. Then Yoda uses the convenient mysterious slave clone army created by his old padawan to fight the machinations of the other slave army, the droids. Which is just what the big Sith lord wanted, who is famous and hiding in plain sight right in front of the the great Yoda. Then the Jedi get killed by their brainwashed slave army. Meanwhile Obi-wan’s padawan becomes the Sith who kills all the young Jedi. Yoda and Kenobi flee.
Worst Jedi Master EVER.
Freegards
A couple of quick points:
If Vader knew of Leia, why did he so vigorously react when Luke accidentally disclosed her during their battle? His renewed vigor in that fight shows he was learning something new. With two children, he had two chances at turning a partner to help in defeating the Emperor and becoming the Sith master himself. Anakin’s pride again on display. He was always fighting to better his teachers.
Luke was smug when brought before the Emperor because he was convinced he could turn Vader by then. It was a look of “I have already defeated you”.
Anakin only made 3CPO, not R2D2. And when he last saw the droid, he had not been given outer skins yet. There were many protocol droids that looked like 3CPO. No reason for him to know him.
Obi-wan had been a hermit and focusing on the connecting to force at a greater level for years. He knew that Vader striking him would be the impulse event that would transform him directly into The Force - hence no body. Even Vader had a corpse at death. Obi-wan and Yoda did not.
Trying to think deeply about Star Wars is trying to find your way through the hedge maze of George Lucas’ mind.