matril

From your preview line last week, I'd wondered for a little while about "a classic film reference" jumping straight to the end of the movie and another "binary sunset"... although I suppose that might play into "putting the 'original trilogy' on a pedestal (at the risk of downplaying the other trilogy)." In some ways it's always been tempting for me to see the Emperor's smile as holding some element of "ha, fooled him!", even though I steer clear of "the Emperor is to blame for Padme's death" theories. Maybe it's somehow odd for me to consider "his creation will destroy him" given the sense Anakin had been expected to "destroy the Sith," but maybe there we have to try and make sense of why some are so allergic to the idea of Anakin as a figure of prophesy (beyond my theory "the visceral revulsion to silly comedy relief was so severe everything else in the movie had to be condemned in the end to try and justify getting so worked up.")