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This is MJ, I'm an author, I'm an artist, I'm an analyzer. You can find all my work at MJMunoz.com.

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Welcome to my fully operational Star Wars analysis. I'm talking about episode six of the

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classic, the only, the real Star Wars saga. Of course, episode six would be Return of the Jedi.

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You thought I was going to save revenge at Sith, didn't you? No, I don't play that way, okay? MJ

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don't play that way. Anyway, so this is the last leg on my journey to Ahsoka, because I'm re-watching

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the original saga in 2023 in preparation for Ahsoka, partly because Ahsoka takes place after,

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well, it takes place after Return of the Jedi, somewhere in and around Mando, and I don't exactly

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know where, because as far as I can tell, they are playing fast and loose with where things are.

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Mando takes place five years post Return of the Jedi. I believe some of this Ahsoka show may take

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place shortly after, like Rebels, the cartoon series, had a flash forward, sort of. Yeah,

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had a flash forward to post Return of the Jedi, and I don't even know how far past Return of the

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Jedi that was, but I believe some of the Ahsoka show happens during that time period, and then

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it kind of maybe jumps around a little bit, so I'm not 100% sure. But regardless, it's in that era,

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it's in that milieu, and it just, it'd been a long time since I sat down and watched the Star Wars

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movies, and I thought, you know what, it's time. So I decided I'll do it as a journey to Ahsoka,

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and then I'll get into talking about Ahsoka. But I don't want to talk about Ahsoka anymore,

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because, you know, I'm all about that Sky Guy, Sky Guy 2.0. Snips can get out of here with that

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nonsense for now. So, and if you're not a Star Wars, the Clone Wars fan, then you won't know what

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I'm talking about, and if you are, then you're probably embarrassed of me and shaking your head

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right now, and that's okay. I don't mind. I'm embarrassed of you too. So here we go. One thing

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that really, I don't know how to talk about this movie, because I talked about the other movies all

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in the context of starting from The Phantom Menace, and how the first three movies are the tragedy

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of Darth Vader, or the fall of Anakin Skywalker, and the original trilogy is the redemption of

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Anakin Skywalker, and through his children, of course, he does not do it on his own. That's for

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darn sure. And I kind of don't want to talk about that. I might get back to that in a little bit,

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but I just want to talk about some, I don't know, light, fluffy, like insubstantive,

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insubstantive, is it the right word? Unsubstantial things that I noticed in this movie, and then I,

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well, just haven't wanted to talk about, so I'll do that now. I love, I absolutely love the

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cinematography and the establishing shots of these movies. Specifically, you know, Lucas created the

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visual language of Star Wars, or you know, his DP did, or whatever. I don't know, I don't know,

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but whatever it is, it started in A New Hope, continued in Empire, and perhaps was perfected in

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Return of the Jedi, and then it just kept going, and it kept being consistent, and maybe there have

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been things done over the years to add to it, or to improve it, but definitely the prequels echo,

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and carry on. They reverberate, and they not only echo, they reverberate. Isn't that the same thing

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twice? Yes, it is. Anyway, they echo and reverberate with this style, where it shows you,

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where we get to see these grand spaces, we get to see these wide, distant, still shots, establishing

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shots, if you will, but they're more than establishing shots, they're establishment shots,

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they're what everything is based on. Because even though I love Star Wars as a story about characters,

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and really a story about this family, so it's a very narrow focus, there's something absolutely

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gorgeous in the way it's presented, and in the way it's, well, shot, and directed, and shown on screen,

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and it gives, I think it gives a certain weight to these places that we go, that we have these big,

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wide, relatively long, even though they are short, establishing scenes, and it's not that we, you know,

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get to see a person moving through a hallway, and they're wearing Jedi robes, so we know we're in the

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Jedi Temple. First we see the Jedi Temple. We see outside of Jabba's palace after Leia's been captured,

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and you know, she's out of her, I can't remember the guy's name, but she's out of her disguise,

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where she's speaking Ubi's. So she's out of that disguise, and she's, you know, captured with Jabba,

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and you get this wide establishing shot with the silly, you know, toad thing eating a little critter,

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and I really like all that stuff, and it doesn't stop Endor. We get to see the beauty of the

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sanctuary mood of Endor, and just, it's just amazing. All these different shots of these places,

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you really get to feel them, or at least I do. I feel something about these places based on, I believe,

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the way that they're framed and shot and portrayed to us, and then we get into all the crazy, kooky,

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you know, Star Wars, sci-fi, you know, Muppets and Puppets action, and I don't know, I just like it,

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and maybe the, uh, the affection for those types of shots was nurtured in me as I watched this as a

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kid. Maybe not, maybe it's just good filmmaking, and good filmmaking will always out, I don't know,

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um, but I just wanted to remark on that, because it's something I kept thinking about. I thought

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about it all through Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones, Revenge of the Sith, Empire, A New Hope,

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and now Return of the Jedi, and I just, I had to say something about it. The next thing I want to say is,

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as much as I appreciate the revolutions and the changes made in filmmaking, I find something

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charming about a lot of the original effects in the original trilogy. In particular, I absolutely

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love, and I find it to be, I don't want to say it's actually beautiful because it's gruesome,

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but I do find it entertaining the way that the effect is done for the lightning, and I'm talking

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specifically about when the Emperor, good old Sheev, Sidious, is, I like his recreating of Luke,

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you get this, you know, hand-drawn, animated on cells, on the 35 millimeter cells, lightning

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attacking the guy, and that's really cool. That's really neat how that effect is done. I also love

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it in Gremlins too, when the Gremlins are getting electrocuted at the end there, and anyway, just,

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I think animation is beautiful, I think animation is really special, and I don't quite know why it is,

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but I think it is, and one of the things that's really neat, and that, you know, proves the

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care and attention to detail went into this, is that at one point the lightning like dances across

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Mark Hamill, you know, Luke Skywalker's teeth as he's getting electrocuted, and that's just

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special, and not only does it look neat, but it's, like, it looks neat from an attached perspective.

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It looks painful from an attached perspective, and really thinking about getting into the character

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and the anguish that the actor is portraying, like, that's got to be its own special little

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version of hell where you're being electrocuted, you know, lightning is consistently being

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flowed through your body against your will, which I never knew of lightning ever being

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flowed through someone's body with their will, but anyway, this is against their will, and

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it's even going across your teeth and hurting you in that special way that you thought only a dentist

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could do. So, it's just kind of interesting. It's a really interesting detail, and it shows, like,

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the savagery and the brutality of the emperor of Sidious, and perhaps of the Sith themselves,

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and it's interesting because while this is one man being made to suffer and one man being put

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through pain, you could say that it is emblematic of the kind of pain and the sadistic joy, the

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sadistic nature, and the callousness and disregard for decency and human life that characterizes

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Sidious and everything that he does to the galaxy. And I did not mean to say this, but I spiked,

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I set up the ball for myself, so I'm going to spike it now, and that's why I think people who say

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that the Empire did nothing wrong or the Empire are the good guys are crazy, and they're crazy,

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the Empire are the good guys are crazy! Anyway, so, yeah, I don't know, I like how evil Sidious is

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because of what a threat it makes him and how serious of a threat it makes him and how

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imperative it makes it that he is neutralized, that the Sith are put at bay.

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Oh, I wanted to say something else, but I'll leave that for another time, getting into the

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Revenge of the Sith, probably. So anyway, I liked all that. What else? From a story perspective,

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seeing Luke get to the point where he has to be willing to confront Anakin, it's unclear if,

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or to confront Vader, it sure seems as if Ben and Yoda are contented with the fact that they're

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content with the idea that Luke has to kill Vader, that he has to kill Sidious, and I don't know if

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they think that him killing Vader will power him up, level him up, so to speak, so that he will be

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able to then kill Sidious, or if, I don't know, they're just kind of taking things on faith,

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and they're taking it one Sith at a time. I live my life one Sith at a time.

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One Sith slaying at a time, perhaps. Sorry. So, like, I wonder if that's their perspective.

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It's a little unclear. I can see where the advice and the counsel that they're giving Luke is meant to

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shore him up and prevent him from falling to the dark side, from himself becoming a Sith,

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from being pulled into the treacherous Sith trap, and obviously that's a good thing. They don't want

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the suffering to persist and to continue, but then, you know, they kind of have their contingency

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plan. They don't know what Luke's going to do necessarily, but then they kind of have their

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contingency plan that if he fails, then Leia can take over and carry on his training, and I suppose

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had Luke died or fallen to the dark side, that then Yoda and Ben would have both appeared to her as

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Force ghosts and taught her to be a Jedi, and given her the capability to kill or redeem her brother.

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It's unclear from the film itself if, like, Luke is in absolute rebellion against Ben and Yoda by

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going off to save Vader. He feels like he must face him, and Ben never tells him you have to kill Vader,

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but he says you must confront him, so that's a little dodgy. It's a little bit of using a

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technicality to get out of doing something, but Luke did confront Vader. He confronted Vader,

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and he appealed to the Anakin within him, and ultimately that's what brought him into safety.

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That's what, you know, pulled or awoken... that's what... that's what w... that's what woke up Anakin

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from the shell of Darth Vader and got him to choose something else. To choose to give up his

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own life for another, as opposed to take the lives of others to save his own, or to save the life of

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somebody near him. I guess if you put it that way, he traded Sidious's life for Luke's life, which is

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what he did with the younglings and Padme, but... mechanically it's the same, but I think morally

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it's definitely different, and I think you can see the differences there. Although maybe there's a

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little bit of a weakness in the way that was structured so that it could have been stronger,

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but really, okay, here's what it is. Anakin gave up his own life as he knew when he fought against

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Sidious that he would die, and there was something... I believe... I can't remember if it was in this

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movie or if it was in Empire, but when Vader tells Luke, you don't understand the power of the dark

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side, I must obey my master. I think... I kind of think that was in this way in the elevator scene

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after the... he was armed only with this, which I love that line... that line delivery, it's so fun.

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Anyway, but he tells him that, so like... this... this does work. It is the moral answer, the moral

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repairing of his moral failing before. Anakin wanted to save Padme and their unborn child. In

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order to do that, he murdered a bunch of people. At no risk to himself, I'll say, because he was so

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powerful. Anakin, Vader, Vader turned his back on the Sith at his own risk. He, as Anakin, picked up

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and threw the Emperor, even though he knew he would die, he knew his life would... not only would he

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be forfeit, but he would be dead by the end of this scenario. And he did it all for the sake of

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saving his son. And I think that's a really big deal, and it shows a growth, and it shows the

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ascension from selfishness to selflessness that Vader didn't care anymore. If he died and he had

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to lose and give up all his power, he loved his son and he wanted to save his life because in that

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moment, him giving up his life could afford him that. And... like, would it have been more impactful

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if he had saved some Joe Schmoe who he didn't know by killing the Emperor and, you know, ending his

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own life? Probably, but that's not what we got here. You know, it's his son who compels him to that

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act of selflessness. And I don't think it is accurate to say that parents' selflessness towards

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their children is not valid because their children are known to them. And I think that's

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a good thing to say about parents' selfishness, because they're not really selfless and deserving

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of their love. Because you can still be a bad, neglectful parent and refuse to give your children

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what they need in favor of giving yourself what you need or want, as the case often is, because

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of your selfishness, ruling over the selflessness that you could show and express. So, anyway...

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I really like that. I thoroughly enjoy the idea that Leia posed as a super deadly,

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if pint-sized, bounty hunter and threatened to blow up herself and 3PO and R2 and Chewbacca

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and, you know, Jabba and a bunch of other people if he didn't pay her the right price. Like, that was

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a really cool move. That was very cool. Like, that whole Jabba's Palace sequence is, like, weird and

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a little... honestly, looking back at it, it's a little too edgy, a little too dark for me in some ways.

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Like, well, it's... yeah. I wish people were dressed more appropriately there. I'll say that for sure.

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You know, the slave dancers are one thing. Slave dancers in, you know, practically no clothing at all.

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That's another thing that I think, honestly, is awful. Especially if Lucas said that, you know,

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Star Wars is for 12-year-olds. You're not supposed to say this. Well, I don't want my 12-year-old

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seeing that. I personally would refrain from seeing that. Yeah. I don't know if that means

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I'm never gonna watch this movie again because it's... this is my favorite Star Wars movie, but it's

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just, uh, yeah. I can look away. Anyway, not good stuff there. So, a little strange. A little

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strange. A little moralizing for me there, but that's okay. You can handle it. You're...

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you're an adult. I know you can handle a difference of opinion. I know you can handle nuance, so

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we're gonna be okay. Anyway, so that whole, like, you know, 30 to 45 minute beginning adventure where

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they're saving Han is really cool. And it's interesting because, like, the opening crawl

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doesn't really set us up for this is going to be the redemption of Anakin Skywalker. It's,

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hey, these rebels are having a hard time. They are on the back foot still. They're having trouble,

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and the Empire is about to make a big move, and these guys are in trouble. And then you get into

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the movie, and there's the rescue of Han, and it's not that he's such a valuable asset that he helps

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the Rebellion be where it needs to be, but he's pulled back into the adventure by his friends

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saving him, and then you get to see their next big adventure. But in the meantime, you know, Luke

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takes his little side trip, his detour, to Dagobah, and that puts him in the frame of mind of, you know,

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he eventually is one day going to confront Vader. And it's just interesting how...

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Just interesting how, you know, sensibly, like if this were a TV show or something,

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this could have been, like, the end of an arc or the high point of an arc that sets up Luke

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to have a confrontation with the big bad being Vader and the bigger bad being Sidious, you know,

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years down the line. But, you know, in the story and universe and in the movie, it's not that far away,

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you know, time-wise, whereas it, you know, it really could have been. They could have flashed

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forward 10 years, because why not? We've done that before, right? So that's kind of interesting that,

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you know, you have this little adventure, and it kind of ties things up, and it gives, like,

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it gives the Rebels a victory, even though it's more, you know, Luke and his friends, it gives them

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a victory, and things are tidy, and then it re... It's kind of like there's two movies, you know?

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It reintroduces this big threat from the Empire, and it's almost like a redux of, you know, the

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attack on Yavin IV, and, you know, the fight with the original Death Star, except people are in

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different places and doing slightly different things, and you have the more direct, you know,

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obviously you have the more direct confrontation between Vader and Sidious and Luke, and it's just,

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it's kind of unexpected, like, it didn't have to be this way, you know, we could have never met the

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Emperor. I know he's an Empire, but he's just hologramming that, and, you know, he could have

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stayed that way for a long time, and there could have been the looming threat out there, but that's

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not what we got. I like the parallel of how Luke is, you know, tempted, and I feel like he's giving

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into the dark side a little bit in his fight with Vader. Like, I think he essentially uses and taps

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into the dark side in order to overpower Vader and defeat him, and it's not until the Emperor is

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clapping and laughing and telling him, like, great, you're using the dark side, this is exactly what

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you need to do, my young apprentice, which this is not the first time he's called him his apprentice.

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I think it's not until Luke throws his lightsaber that he rejects the light, the dark side, and he

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embraces the force in its, you know, fullness, you could say, and he does the right thing, he does the

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generative thing, he does the life-giving thing, which is, no, I'm not going to fight you, and kind

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of, I'm going to have faith that my friends are going to kill you and my dad and me all on this ship,

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and, you know, wipe out and end your evil, because that's not something I'm capable to do. All I'm,

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you know, interesting, it's kind of like a very humble move, like, look, I'm going to go in there,

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and I'm going to cause the distraction, I'm going to be the diversion, which will enable you to kill

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them, because while I cannot take them on on my own 100%, I can serve as a distraction and as a

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diversion, which will enable you, my friends, with all this great, you know, might of, I don't know,

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a dozen rebel, you know, cruisers, cruiser class ships, plus all the fighters and stuff, and the

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ground crew, to be able to take out these two men. So it's like, I'm this one man who knows enough

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to be dangerous and who knows enough to be a distraction so that a whole army can take out

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two guys, and that's, that's very interesting. Talk about selflessness and, you know, choosing

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to put yourself at risk to save others, to save your friends, to save those you care about.

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That's definitely what Luke's doing. I think that's the Jedi way, and I don't know, I think it's

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really cool. I, you know, I like the story of redemption of Anakin, but it's not just about

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him, and it's not just about his redemption, it's about the struggle that Luke has, to a lesser

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extent that Leia has, with who they are and the power they have, and what they can do with it, or

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what they will choose to do with it. So, I mean, you could say ultimately Star Wars is about

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showing you, you know, what, and maybe showing you that your choices do matter, and showing you that,

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you know, having the will to stand up and fight for what's right, and the will to do what's right,

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do the right thing even if it hurts, is a good thing, and it's a, you know, really, you know,

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it's a really good moral to have, and it's a good way to live even if it, you know, might end your

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life quickly, which of course doesn't happen for heroes, but they're definitely at risk of it a

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lot. So, I don't know, it's, like, it's very cool, but it's also, I think, instructive and

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encouraging, and I like so much of it. Anyway, I'm a big fan. I really like these movies.

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Oh, one last kind of fun, cool thing is I like how you, even though Vader's wearing a death mask,

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which is what it's been referred to by several characters, probably even in, like, the novelization

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of Return of the Jedi, New Hope, and Empire Strikes Back, you know, Vader's death mask,

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it gets to be emotional. The way that he moves around his body and his head, the way he's looking

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at different things, the way the lightning flashes onto his face as he's, or, you know, his mask,

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as, you know, Luke's being electrocuted, all these different things, they really, they work together

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in a really interesting way to make it feel like there is emotion coming through Vader, even though,

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you know, there shouldn't be, and I think that's pretty interesting. I think it's a cool cinematic

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trick, and yeah, I think it's neat. So, again, my verdict is Return of the Jedi is probably the

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greatest Star Wars movie of all time, one of the greatest movies of all time. I really like it,

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and now that I've watched all of this, I'm very happy with the state of Star Wars. Now,

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I'm gonna watch Ahsoka, and I'll let you know how I'm feeling about the state of Star Wars.

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Because honestly, I can't remember if I mentioned this in the first episode of this or not, but I

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didn't watch Mando Season 3. I didn't watch Andor. How could you be interested in that show? Just the

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premise of it doesn't make any sense to me, but whatever. I didn't watch Kenobi. I didn't watch

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Bad Batch Season 2. I didn't watch Visions 1 or 2, or Tales of the Jedi. I watched one episode of

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Tales of the Jedi, and it was really cool with Ahsoka and like her mom and dad and stuff. Anyway,

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it was like a wolf sort of thing. That was kind of interesting. So, I'm a little dubious about

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certain things, and I'm definitely not a Star Wars hater. I'm a Star Wars lover. I've been enjoying

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the books, the EU books, recently, and I listened to one of the Lando and Luke books, and that was

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interesting. I won't say much more about it now, but it was not the book I was looking for. Let

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me say that. So, you know, I'm giving it a chance. I like Clone Wars. I like Rebels. I like Ahsoka's

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appearances in Rebels, and what she did there. And I'm curious to see what Flony will do with her.

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I like what he did in Mando Seasons 1 and 2. So, we'll see what happens. And I didn't stay away

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from these things because of the reviews. I stayed away from these things because I'm trying to

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do a lot of other stuff. Write other things, watch and review other stuff, and pursue my drawing and

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my creative work, and get myself to be a published author. So, I only have so much time, but I thought,

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you know what? I'm interested enough in the Ahsoka character and in seeing where this goes and how

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they're going to tie together Thrawn and Ezra and all these things from Rebels. And it's this

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continuation of, you know, Rebels is like a continuation of Clone Wars, and the show is like

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a continuation of that, and I really love Clone Wars, so like, you know, where's that going to go?

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So, we shall see what I think about this newfangled Ahsoka show, what Flony does with it,

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and how I feel like it gels with these movies. Because I feel like these six movies are

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fantastic, and that all of Star Wars should gel with them. I'm not saying it can't be different

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from them at all, but it needs to gel with them. And we're going to see what I think about that

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after I watch Ahsoka. I'll talk about it as a show first, and then I'll talk about how it blends in

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with the rest of, with the rest, you know, with the Star Wars saga. So, anyway, until next time,

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folks, this is MJ signing out. I hope you take care of yourselves, and yeah, that's it.

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