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This is MJ. Welcome to my fully operational Star Wars podcast.

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Join me as I take my next leg on the journey to Ahsoka.

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This time I'm talking about Star Wars Episode IV, A New Hope.

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If you didn't know, if you haven't been following along,

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I'm watching the films in order, like they should be, because they tell a single story.

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The prequel trilogy is the tragic fall of, or the rise and fall really of Anakin Skywalker,

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and the sequel trilogy, well, or I guess the original trilogy is what it really is.

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We'll talk about what that is after we talk about Return of the Jedi.

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So Star Wars Episode IV, A New Hope, that's what I'm discussing right now.

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And I have to say, it's either a level of genius, madness, or just fan obsessive

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compulsion or familiarity that makes me feel like A New Hope feels so much like Star Wars

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from the context of starting with the Phantom Menace.

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And what I mean is, you get to see the echoing and the rhyming of things from the first three movies

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in this fourth movie, and I know it's a little preposterous for me to talk about it,

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as if Lucas planned this out properly, because he didn't.

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And I'm just going to break character for a minute here.

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As much as I don't like the sequel trilogy, and I think The Last Jedi is the best of the three movies,

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and I think it's legitimately a good movie, even if it's not the movie you wanted,

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I think it's a good movie, and it has guts, and it has vision and direction, and it's going someplace.

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Again, you may not like it, but I feel like Rian Johnson was Lucasian in how he chose to

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do things his own way and make big, bold choices.

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Slow and low is unforgivable, though.

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Slow and low is absolutely unforgivable.

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That's the worst thing in that movie.

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Anyway, so, yeah, I'm not a contrarian.

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I just, I think I'm a careful watcher of movies, and I think I pay attention to Star Wars,

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and understand Star Wars enough to know that, again, while you may not appreciate what he did,

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I think Johnson was kind of in line with some of Lucas's vision as far as being bold and being

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willing to take risks and make moves that other people wouldn't make.

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Who else would have made Anakin start off as a nine-year-old slave boy?

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Who else would have had a time-year time skip where his infatuation with Padme turned into

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a cringe-fest romance?

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Who else would have had the last movie in the trilogy start with the ending of The Clone Wars

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and have Dooku reduced to a handless man on his knees who gets his head cut off

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like Anakin was playing Chucky from Child's Play with the Giant Scissors,

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scissoring off his head with two lightsabers, and then proceed to have that same awesome,

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super edgy, super dark, super cool, super tough Darth Vader who everybody had known for,

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I don't know, 20 plus years, and have him be a fool and a creep who's willing to

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massacre literal children.

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I mean, he basically turned Anakin into a school shooter so that he would get enough

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dark side points in order to have the dark side power to save his unborn child and Padme.

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A complete moral failure, a completely morally repugnant individual.

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And yet, in doing all that crazy stuff, Lucas put me in a position where I have warm feelings

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in my heart about Anakin because I got to see him go through all these different stages.

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I got to see him go through this process.

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I got to see the lure of the dark side tempt him and make him do illogical things that

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just didn't make any sense and didn't, you know, ironically, tragically, didn't result

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in him meeting the end goal that he wanted to, the very things that he was willing to

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sacrifice and give up for, for he ended up losing because of him sacrificing and giving up

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everything, throwing himself, throwing his soul, throwing his heart, throwing his morals away.

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And that brings me to a big contrast.

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And ironically, Luke does not appear for like the first 25 or 30 minutes of the movie.

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We start off with Anakin's other child, Leia, and she's on the Tantive IV putting the Death

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Star plans in R2-D2.

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Of course, R2-D2 and C-3PO are familiar to us as Star Wars fans, as viewers of the Star Wars

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saga, the Skywalker saga in this, in this mode going 1 through 6.

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We know 3PO and R2 so well.

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They've done such great things.

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They've had such great moments with each other and with the rest of the cast of Star Wars

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that seeing this, you know, bunheaded brunette, you know, putting plans into

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R2-D2 and commanding him to help her in her royal mission, it feels very familiar.

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It feels like it echoes later, like it is an unintentional echo of what happened in

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the Phantom Menace until a lesser extent, Attack of the Clones.

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And then when we finally, you know, we get to see the bickering between R2 and 3PO, which

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wasn't a major part of the prequels.

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It's in the Clone Wars a lot and it's definitely in the original trilogy, but it's not so much

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in the prequel trilogy.

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But we get to see it here.

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We get to see the rapport that they have and, you know, we hear name drops like Bail, Organa,

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and, you know, we know Leia's an Organa, so she's, you know, ostensibly his daughter.

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But then when we get to Tatooine, we get to see that while Luke is not a slave, not a

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literal slave, he's not a slave for the chip in his arm or body that'll blow him up if

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he tries to run away, he is trapped on Tatooine.

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He's trapped being a moisture farmer.

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He's trapped with Owen Lars, who we met previously.

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And it's just, it's really interesting how it all feels so cozy and so familiar and so

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much like this is the well-worn universe that it is and that it's become, that it's turned

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out to be.

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And I don't know, it's amazing.

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You know, I've seen A New Hope so many times and I've seen the prequels so many times.

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And it almost feels like the more I watch them, the more they blend together and the

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more they work.

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Obi-Wan looks way too old to have been Ewan McGregor in Revenge of the Sith and now be

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Alec Guinness in A New Hope, but it works.

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who's harboring all these secrets.

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And the way that Lucas went back and retroactively changed the continuity and backfilled the

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backstory by making the prequels, it feels like when he says that Anakin was a great

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pilot and a great friend and he was this great Jedi that Obi-Wan had all these adventures

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with and that Vader was a pupil of his who turned to evil and betrayed and murdered

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Anakin and hunted down the rest of the Jedi.

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It feels like all those things are true and it feels like all those things blend in with,

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like it feels like Alec Guinness is acting as if he's Obi-Wan, having memories of Order

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enough like me to have watched so much of that.

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And it's remarkable how well made the movie is.

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I don't know, it's really interesting.

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You know, Vader gives the line on the Death Star, I sense a presence, presence that I

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haven't felt since and he trails off.

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One of my favorite Japanese writers of Tokusatsu is Toshiki Inoue and he does a lot of crazy

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stuff in his writing, but something that I observed as I was looking at his writing

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very closely about a year ago, I never finished a certain show, I need to go back and finish

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it, I want to go back and finish it, but I haven't allowed myself to yet.

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But anyway, in this show, which is a Super Sentai, which is what Power Rangers is based

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off of, he writes this strange universe, it's a near earth, it's a near human universe,

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but it has all these crazy supernatural elements in it.

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magic, they all balance out, the magic of Super Sentai I mean, they all balance out in this

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really interesting way where it's, you kind of assume that, okay, these are people, they're

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human beings, they wear, you know, they wear pants.

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whatever, they have special funky costumes, but they're basically human.

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So basic human rules and logic and norms apply to them.

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But then he sprinkles in these things, and I'm speaking of Lucas and Inoue now, he sprinkles

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in these things where they're not normal humans, they're often this strange land far away and

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displaced from us in time and culture.

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And we just accept certain things as a given, we accept things that are presented or said

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as a given.

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We accept the Clone Wars, we accept, you know, the fact that droids aren't welcome in a bar

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for some reason.

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We accept all these things because they're given to us and they're shown to us and they're

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accepted by the characters that we're watching.

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And that combination basically makes us as the audience suggestible and open to anything

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that the author, that the writer, the director wants to put forth to us.

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So this implication that Vader gives that he hasn't seen Obi-Wan since, or hasn't

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since this present sense, and then you determine that it's, oh, it's the last time that he

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and Obi-Wan met.

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There was probably a fateful battle between the two and we don't really know.

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And then later on you get the follow up of when I left you, I was but the student, now

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I am the master, only a master of evil, Dov.

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Those interactions frame our perception of this world that we have such limited context

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of.

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We get to see this world, this lived in galaxy exploding with story potential and possibilities

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and rabbit trails to go down, which the EU has done to great extent and fan theorizing

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has done to a great extent as well.

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And we just are able to draw these conclusions from what's being presented to us in this

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world because, well, if he's saying that and he's a person, then it's reasonable to assume

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this, even though it's not necessarily reasonable.

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We didn't know about, I still haven't watched Kenobi because I just wasn't really interested

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in it because, well, I like John Jackson Miller's Kenobi better.

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How do I know that if I haven't seen the show?

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I've heard enough people complain about the show that I'm pretty sure I would, I

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prefer John Jackson Miller's, John Jackson Miller's Kenobi book, which is fabulous,

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absolutely fabulous to the Kenobi series.

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I may watch it someday.

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I may not, who knows?

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But my point is, you know, I'm familiar with Star Wars, both as a fan who's seen these

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things a bunch of times and also just somebody who's been watching these things, you know,

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within rapid succession of each other as I'm going through getting ready to jump into this,

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you know, new, hopefully amazing Star Wars adventure in Ahsoka.

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And I don't know, it's just remarkable to me how it blends together.

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And I almost think it only blends together so well because George Lucas and his collaborators

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bottled lightning in making Star Wars episode four, A New Hope.

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They made it so good.

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It's still a well-crafted movie.

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And like, I don't know if these are Marshal Lucas cuts with Obi-Wan or with

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Al Ginnis' performance or what they are.

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But something in his performance, something in the way Mark Hamill reacts to him, something

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in the vagaries of the dialogue and how it leaves itself open to interpretation, all

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of these things blend together.

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You know, the fact that it was shot on, you know, widescreen 35 millimeter film, like

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all of these things and the beautiful paintings done by, oh, what's his name?

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I can't, the concept artist.

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He did paintings of matte paintings on glass for the different effects too.

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Ralph McCrory, right?

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Anyway, all of these things blend together in such a magical way that it really makes

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it feel as if episode four, five and six could have come after episodes one, two and three.

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And while they have different looks to them, it almost feels like it's intentional.

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Well, these movies look like this because they represent the Gilded Age or whatever.

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the Soviet Union as it's in its decay and before it falls apart and before the whatever,

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before it falls apart.

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I'm not good enough at history to name out specific things and not sound like a jerk.

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So I won't do that.

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So anyway, it's just remarkable to me that somehow these things knit together.

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And again, Obi-Wan, Elegant, this is way too old unless he just looks really old.

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And he doesn't say he's too old.

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And we know the man is not beyond bending the truth.

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So he could be saying to look, I'm too old for this because I need you to take over.

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I need you to be in a position to take over whether that's because he's got messages

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from Qui-Gon or he's just got a vibe from the force or because he feels like he's too

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old for this stuff.

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He's too old for this stuff.

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I don't know.

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It creates this awesome blend.

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And I'm kind of floored by like what an amazing movie episode four is in and of itself.

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And then the way that it blends and picks up from where Revenge of the Sith left off,

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it just it impresses me all the more.

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And really, you know, the whole prequel tells you where that left off.

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So I found it remarkable that like you have out in space on the Tantri before then you

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have you have the tent before the Death Star as a set or location.

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You have Tatooine as a location.

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You have, I guess, on the Millennium Falcon in space, a location and you have a little

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bit of where was the Messiah temple?

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Yavin, you have a little bit of Yavin for as a set or a location.

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There's really only like four broad locations in this movie.

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And yet it feels like a huge sprawling adventure that goes far.

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It goes a lot of places and it's shocking that that's so.

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Oh, more echoes of the past.

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So, you know, Obi-Wan talks about Anakin being a great pilot and knowing these movies already

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knowing spoilers, if you're unaware that Anakin is Vader, that he becomes Vader,

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seeing Vader go out and lead from the front and take two, you know, sensibly really good

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TIE fighters with him, TIE fighter pilots with him to go fight in the trenches and get

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his hands dirty.

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It feels so much like Anakin.

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And before it just made Vader seem like, oh, he's this, you know, scary guy who, you know,

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has this magical force thing like when you originally saw it.

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And I guess he's a good pilot because of the force.

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And then having all of Anakin's backstory, it makes it feel like there are echoes of

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Anakin Skywalker in Darth Vader, that there's certain things that are true of him that don't

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let go that he wants to lead from the front, that he wants to be in the thick of things,

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that he wants to be doing his duty, that he wants to be being that hero that he somehow

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sees himself as in this, you know, from this twisted perspective, this twisted point of view.

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And he wants to go out there and defend the lives of the millions or however many hundreds

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of thousands of people are on the giant space station that is the Death Star.

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And he wants to protect the peace, justice and order that he has brought to his galaxy,

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you know, with his hands so soaked in the blood of the innocent.

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And it's just it's kind of chilling to watch it in that perspective and like seeing him

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in that TIE fighter.

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And it feels so much like the Jedi starfighter that was in Revenge of the Sith that he was

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flying around in towards the end there.

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It's just it's just remarkable how much he feels like it could be the same guy, like the same guy.

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There's the core of the same guy in that suit.

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And I'll just spill it now.

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I think the prequel trilogy is the fall, the rise and fall, the tragic fall of Anakin Skywalker,

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the tragedy of Anakin Skywalker.

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And the original trilogy is like the redemption of Darth Vader, the redemption of Anakin Skywalker

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through his children.

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And I'm pretty sure Lucas has said that in interviews and stuff.

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And I'm just echoing that now.

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But I really do feel like it.

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I really feel Anakin invader and it's sad.

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And it makes it a little sadder and a little sweet seeing the echoes of Padme in Luke and

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the echoes of Anakin in Leia.

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I really feel like she's her father's daughter and he's his mother's son.

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Luke's more diplomatic.

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He's more gentle.

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He's more caring.

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He's more earnest and sincere.

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And Leia is more hard edged and got a short temper and is willing to do whatever she has to.

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Whereas I feel, you know, Padme did what she had to, but I feel like she was a lot more

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straight laced than Anakin ever was.

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And I feel like that's kind of reversed in The Twins.

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And I know it's just so odd to see that.

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It's so interesting to see that.

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And it's like it hurts knowing that Anakin grew up as a slave on Tatooine and seeing

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that Luke has grown up enslaved to the war's homestead in a way on Tatooine.

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He's bound there by duty and by family and by these bonds that he can't seem to break.

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And then the death of Owen and Beru frees him and sets him on this journey where he can

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become a Jedi like his father before him.

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His father who he didn't know.

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His father who he wants to be like his father who he wishes to measure up to.

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And it's just so sad.

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It's such a sad, tragic, bittersweet start to the adventure.

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And then, I don't know, it's interesting because you have Leia losing her mother and father

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and all her people on Alderaan as well.

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And those were her parents.

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She knew she was adopted.

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But of course, this isn't stuff we get in the movie.

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I'm carrying all this baggage with me from the EU and other places and other movies.

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But it just, again, the movie stands on its own without all these things.

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And it's just amazing how much richer of an experience it is knowing all these different

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things.

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And I really like that.

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I feel like the Ahsoka shows probably, hopefully it'll be the same way that it'll be good on

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its own if you haven't seen Ahsoka in anything else.

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But if you've seen her in Rebels and in Mando and, was she in Book of Boba Fett?

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I can't remember.

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I think she was in an episode.

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But if you've seen her in all these other things like I have, then we'll be able to

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carry those things with us into the experience of watching her show.

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And hopefully, besides, like I said, besides all those things being brought forward with

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it, it's just a good show in its own right.

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And it feels good to an audience that's getting exposed to her for the first time in her story.

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So anyway, that's all I have to say.

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I like A New Hope.

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I think it's a really good movie and I love how it fits in the rest of the context of

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the other movies.

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So with that, that's all I have to say.

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This is MJ signing out.

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I hope you people take care of yourselves until next time.

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