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Post by Seeker of the Whills on Apr 15, 2024 3:44:44 GMT
I planned to wait until the Blu-ray release to rewatch the series, but I ended up binge rewatching the whole thing yesterday. It's really a journey and there's a lot to chew on. I found it to be very rewatchable and stratigraphic. I loved so much of it, despite some of the flaws. Haja is funny and endearing. I really felt the moment when Obi-Wan entrust his lightsaber and Leia's safety to him. Vader is scary as hell. He's like Michael Myers in episode 3, stalking Obi-Wan slowly. And I started to really appreciate what they did with Leia and Reva. Obi-Wan, in a way, tries to be a more Qui-Gon-like father figure to Leia, which he wasn't able to be to Anakin when he was younger. Their relationship is lovely. And Reva's story is moving and fascinating. Showing the consequences of that provocative scene where Anakin storms the Jedi Temple and kills the younglings was a bold choice. There's a lot of cool details and nods to the prequels, as Ingram suggested. I especially like the moment when Tala dies. There's symmetry there with Qui-Gon's death. It's like poetry, it rhymes. The steelbook will make a fine addition to my collection.
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Post by Seeker of the Whills on Apr 16, 2024 9:53:48 GMT
This one I believe I also made note of when the series was airing, but it's a really cool symmetry, either an accidental similarity or very good attention to detail. I'm kind of leaning on the latter possibility. Vader moves to the left of the screen, looking out of the window, just as Anakin does in RotS. There's a special significance here. In RotS, Anakin was craving power by wanting the rank of master and to sit on the Jedi Council. The council chamber holds many chairs for the members, while Vader's throne room is all to himself. By that time in RotS, Anakin was already sitting alone in the chambers, with the other Jedi scattered across the galaxy. And once he became Vader and destroyed the Jedi, he became the master, as he boasts to Obi-Wan in ANH. There is also the stark contrast in the design of the Jedi Temple, having five spires, while Vader's fortress is a singular tower, as well as the landscape Anakin/Vader is staring at out the window. While the man-made visage of Coruscant can appear quite cold and inhuman in a way, in this scene it is bathed in a beautiful orange sunset and looks like a marvel of human ingenuity, the flying traffic moving tranquilly through the air. While Vader gazes out at the barren, hell-like wasteland of Mustafar. It really speaks to the change in the character and the difference he has caused in the galaxy through his actions. I also like that in the final scene between Obi-Wan and Leia, there is a reprisal of the moment from TPM where Anakin asks Shmi, "Will I ever see you again?" This line now reverberates all the way to ANH, where Leia and Obi-Wan are only reunited for the briefest glimpse of a moment, before she watches him die, just like Anakin is only reunited for a moment with Shmi before she dies in his arms.
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