Saga The Dagobah Tree Moment of the Prequels

I am in awe of your awe, do u want more?

 

zombie writes a book based on existing, published history & quotes, gets it published & he's a hate criminal, but a bunch of obvious visual motifs are analysed to death & it's time for SW to enter the world of obnoxious film theory & destroy a few more forests? Although it's not quite as extreme, this is the crap that almost turned me off movies for good in my second year studying film theory at university. Give me a break.

Yes, the Tusken Massacre can be seen as a parallel to Luke's 'trial' in the cave on Dagobah, and maybe GL had that roughly in mind when he charted Anakin's own journey in terms of timing, but you're all tearing things to pieces for the very sake of it. With the exception of the fixed story of Ep III, you do know that GL made pretty much everything up as he went along when it came to the PT, right? To the point where he was delivering script pages long after sets, costumes & schedules had been put together? What parallels there are between OT & PT exist simply because of the basic principles of storytelling, there's a heap of fundamentals that caused them to occur without any sort of conscious decisions on GL's part.

Whatever your own opinion about the PT, I don't think there's much else there to be discovered or analysed, certainly not on this ridiculous level. GL simply wanted these films done to make money, not art. As Rainier Wolfcastle said to Homer Simpson, "What's there is there."

 

If PalpSidious doesn't know everything, then how did he know that Anakin and Padme are married? That Anakin is having visions of Padme dying? Or that Anakin wants to find a way to stop people from dying? Anakin never told him any of those things and yet, PalpSidious somehow knew what's on Anakin's mind by probing his thoughts with the Force. It would make sense that PalpSidious would be sending Anakin those visions and plus, PalpSidious DID know that Mace was going to kick him in the face because he allowed it to happen due to him sensing Anakin coming to his rescue. Losing the duel was the only way PalpSidious could trick Anakin into betraying Mace.

Yoda and Mace are not mentally weak like Anakin which is why they never have premonitions.

 

Connections in the Naboo civil clergy, according to the ROTS novel.

Well, one of these proceeds from the other. But you suggest an answer yourself: PalpSidious somehow knew what's on Anakin's mind by probing his thoughts with the Force.

That is only an assumption, and Lucas' comments in the DVD commentary seem to indicate otherwise.

 

Listen here, guy. The Dagobah Tree/Tusken Massacre connection barely scratches the surface of ridiculous.
Basically, what you're saying is that a poet unintentionally uses alliteration. And that's dull and almost naive.

 

"A hate criminal"???

Just a slight exaggeration, methinks.

Your personal disclosure aside (BTW: it sounds like you wasted a lot of time and money, then), this is a discussion board, where things get, y'know, discussed. A book is merely one way of communicating with people and not always the best. On the other hand, I am troubled by your characterization of books you disapprove of as destroying forests. Sounds a bit too anti-intellectual from where I'm sat. Why don't you worry about how much power is created and CO2 sent into the atmosphere every time you scold people over "obvious visual motifs" and "crap" in the future, eh?

Well, duh. Again, this is a discussion board. None of us even has to be here. It's not like us posting to TFN helps us pay the bills or take out the trash or anything. That said, the only one who appears to be "tearing things to pieces" is you. Why don't you let people be, eh? Different courses for different horses. There are such things as diversity and tolerance for ambiguity. Since you made your history part of the public record, I will just add that university is meant to instill a basic awareness and respect of these things.

Conscious/unconscious. It doesn't matter which. In art, BOTH are naturally there, at all times. No offence, but you're preaching to the choir. Anyone who believes that Lucas intended everything -- or that intent matters to the exclusion of everything else -- is obviously too mentally stunted to use a computer. Then again (thinks of IMDb), perhaps not. Also, you're not sounding like much of a Star Wars fan, right now...

OBI-WAN: Let go your conscious self and act on instinct!
QUI-GON: Feel, don't think. Use your instincts.

Commercial concerns are one strand of the artistic enterprise. They are not the ONLY one. Nor are they (necessarily) the most prevalant one. An artist does what he or she does for a variety of reasons (a complex web of reasons: subtle and intricate). Your reductive mindset here is as absurd as anyone looking at your beloved zombie's book and thinking he's "a hate criminal". Also, "what's there is there" wouldn't wash with any true scholar or academic, and again, you've been to university, so why are you pimping such nonsense here? "What's there is there" is tautological and is merely the simplest thing to assert. This is not an empirical discipline like science, but it may be philosophical, so if you're going to throw quotations around, I see your Rainier Wolf

 

@ DarthWolvo23

Keep posting these, I would love to see more. I was thinking of perhaps resurrecting some of the ideas that were on the Visual Storytelling thread, probably a fair few people havent seen them...

 

See, I would've preferred that Sidious found out by reading Anakin's thoughts just like how he found out the rest.

If Sidious could sense Anakin in danger even though they're 2 planets apart from each other, then he could sense him approaching his office.

 

He's got Naboo connections, being from Naboo, and probably a lot of other information sources as well.

That doesn't mean he planned to get kicked in the face. According to Lucas Mace overpowered Palpatine. ( Also, Coruscant and Mustafar are more than 2 planets apart. )

 

But it seems like a lame way for Sidious to find out about Anakin/Padme's marriage. Its like he forgot how to use the force to read minds.

By this logic, Palpatine never planned to be kidnapped or for the Jedi to come after him after he tells Anakin that he's Darth Sidious. Look, PalpSidious has been faking at everything throughout the prequals, his defeat against Mace becomes questionable. Not even Lucas himself is sure if Sidious actually lost because he has him kill off 3 Jedi and have Mace on the run but somehow, Mace wins? If I were to believe that Mace is a better fighter than Sidious, then Lucas shouldn't have had Mace bring any jedi along to help him take down Sidious.

 

In that case he didn't need to. Sith having access to a network of spies and informants is a tradition going back to the days of Bane.

That all-or-nothing theory does not follow. Besides, Lucas said he was trying to destroy Mace.

No, you've seen what Lucas has to say on the matter, he simply disagrees with you.

That is what the ROTS novel seems to indicate, and it was edited by Lucas, who removed various things which he found to be objectionable. Mace being a master of Vaapad and the reference to his "unmatched" lightsaber skills made the cut.

 

But don't you think that would ruin Sidious's chance of winning Anakin over to his side? He's trying to plant the illusion in Anakin's mind that all the Jedi are evil and having Mace kill off Sidious or vice versa before Anakin shows up does not help Sidious reinforce that illusion. What if Anakin never left the Jedi Temple when that happens? He'd have no reason to become Darth Vader which is why I question the idea that Mace actually defeated PalpSidious.

It diminishes the emotional impact of Anakin's betrayal and it makes Sidious look like a pathetic twit instead of an evil genius.

But his declaration that Mace beat Sidious is still unclear because its too coincidental that Anakin shows up at the same time Sidious hits the ground. That is another reason why I question Mace's victory because it makes the scene look like Sidious allowed Mace to win because he sensed Anakin coming to his rescue and he had to appear weak to trick Anakin into betraying Mace. If Lucas didn't have Mace bring any Jedi with him and had Anakin show up at the moment Mace was about to kill Sidious, then, I would buy that Mace actually won the duel.

 

Awe me!

 

Not really. Anakin still needs him. You're forgetting the Padme factor.

Having Mace kill off Sidious does not reinforce that?

That doesn't make what Lucas said unclear, it just means you refuse to accept it.

Mace still has the same lightsaber proficiency regardless of how many Jedi he brings with him.

 

Why does there have to be a Dagobah Tree moment in any of the Prequel films?