Date: 2021-03-11 11:39 pm (UTC)
krpalmer: (europa)
From: [personal profile] krpalmer
There is a lot to chew over here, I'll agree. I did admit last year to pondering a specific alternative for "the other" (that would seem to require stretching out the saga, though), but it is interesting how an idea introduced to "raise uncertainty over whether 'the lone hero' will really make it out of the crisis all right" (as I believe George Lucas once said in a commentary) gets tied in to that hero.

You touched briefly on Luke's reluctance to kill his own father. I'm conscious a different story might make a big deal of "the only thing I can do to honour the memory of the good man you were is destroy the monster you've become," but acknowledge and accept Lucas was going for a feel-good ending in the face of disdain from certain others (although he did, in a sense, later get to a "downbeat ending," but one with an automatic escape already built in). However, I also have to admit to thinking "if you considered yourself constrained by the previous director's lazy invocation of what he thinks Star Wars is to suppose yourself searching for a tragic flaw in Luke Skywalker, maybe treating this moment as 'he thinks too well of his family' ought to be it."

Speculation about just what Obi-Wan means does lead me to recalling certain comments that "Yoda only said 'confront Vader'; maybe they were just nudging Luke into a position where he'd win through to redemption without having to be told what to do and emerge with the maturity to accept the nudging with a smile." That, though, leaves me with the same sort of "I can't articulate a lot of evidence against it, but I just don't like the idea of 'intricate clockwork schemes'" objection I deploy against the more extreme interpretations of "Palpatine the plotter."
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