A/V STAR WARS REBELS (show's over, spoilers allowed)

Yeah, anything which tries to make Anakin into Jesus other than the Virgin birth is REALLY stretching things.

Though you could make an argument he was like some mythologies version of Lucifer.

Really, as divine births go, Anakin is closest to Herakles in that he was a really-really psychologically disturbed sort of hero with severe emotional issues and rages.

However, Herakles atones and ascends to join the gods in the end anyway.

 

Embarrassingly, it took me ten books before I realised it was darkfriend and not darkfiend.

The interesting thing, if we're going the Arthurian route, is that Vader more closely aligns with Merlin than he does either of the Pendragons.

Kid born of a virgin (with RotS hinting that the Sith were the incubi) plagued by prophetic dreams with uber magic powers... who winds up imprisoned thanks to his obsesssion with a woman.

I don't disagree with any of this.

 

Bonus points, my friend read the entire series and didn't realize until I mentioned it that a Forsaken had been free all the time wasn't a huge twist (as he thought it was).

I mentioned we knew one was because one talks to Lewis Therin in the Prologue after they've all been imprisoned.



Anyway, I *REALLY* like Rebels. I do think someone on the writing staff is a West End Gamer, though. All the nods can't be coincidence.

 

Woot, 30,000 posts!

 

RE the odd hats, keep in mind it's still a styalized art style. Look at Vader's mask, it looks like something out of the oldest McQuarrie artwork, all angles and lines. They're probably modeled after that.

 

I'm sceptical if these female inquisitor is Barriss - I honestly think Filoni wouldn't waste her character and would be bolder with her inclusion into this era.

 

Except, of course, this is the LEAD Star Wars Expanded Universe material. Second only in importance to the films.

Something which is hard for a lot of litters to really....accept....but this is pretty huge.

 

I have no overwhelming desire for Anakin to be some unprecedented moral paragon, but given that Ventress is already kind of a gray area (pun not intended but acknowledged), I think it's easy to view "start down the dark path" in Yoda's context as "Sith" specifically. On the playing field Yoda's operating on, Inquisitors barely even register--they're dark side hobbyists compared to what Vader signed up for.

In any event, I don't exactly want Barriss defecting, but I wouldn't mind her going out on a last-second backpedal a la Jacen.

 

I also think Yoda speaks in Zen wisdom and Christian parables, neither of which is EVER meant to be taken as absolute fact.

Yoda is saying. "once you start rationalizing evil, it consumes your life."

Not exactly a huge-huge statement, just a warning about losing your perspective.

 

It's like alcoholism--you CAN stop, but you're never really cured.

 

Theoretically, new comics, new novels, new TV, and new films, are all on the same level.

In practice, a lot more focus will be on films, followed by TV.

 

And in practice, the television show will be seen and merchandised far far more than any comic or book.

 

Round 2 of this?

 

I also think Yoda is just trying to drill into Luke's head that Vader would be more interested in corrupting than killing him.

 

Yeah, everything he and Obi say to Luke is the Jedi Scared Straight program.

 

Fair point. And I can roll with that.

Though, really, it's not got much of anything to do with making Anakin a moral paragon. I'm just rather enamored with the notion that his personal triumph over the dark side is a large part of what brings the Force back into balance.

More, even, than his killing of Palpatine.

Because then it doesn't matter if the Sith return, or some new dark side group takes their place.

He wasn't special because he was the latest Jedi to defeat the biggest baddest dark sider, he was special for being the Jedi who -- with the aid of his son -- defeated the dark side, itself. The guy who forever shattered the illusion that it is ever "too late".

And who showed that you don't have to be a moral paragon to do the right thing.

 

I'd rather see Ventress discover that Palpatine was the man behind her downfall. When she goes gunning for revenge, Vader becomes her first target.

 

Well, it should have been played out 2 -10 years after RotS. Rebels is no place for old TCW era grudges.

 

Agreed. That's why I'm glad Vader took out Obi-Wan the day after RotS.

 

So that's what happens when you replace the Old Testament with the first half of Le Morte D'Arthur.

 

Not for lack of trying.

 

Vader is the Fisher King and Luke, Percival.