I wonder if it's "peculiar" in retrospect now that I was very concerned about whether Qui-Gon would "come off right" in "Overlords" and whether "Ahsoka turned 'dark'" would "work at all" in "Altar of Mortis," but going into this episode I was more willing to just go along with things as they happened...
Qui-Gon returning again was a real surprise for me, but it was nice to see Anakin interacting with him; after all, they did that back in The Phantom Menace... One thing that struck me at first about the vision of the future was that Anakin saw "what" and not "why," and I can also ponder him basically surrendering his freedom of action to avoid what he saw, only to wind up sort of where he didn't want to be in the first place. As well, I did think back to old speculation that Anakin's fall would be through "trying to do something for the galaxy as a whole" (often linked to trying to free the slaves on Tatooine), although since noticing those speculations I've thought myself that, since it had already been established he returned from the Dark Side through "focusing on one person," joining it through that does seem to avoid the potential criticism that "doing something 'big' is being downplayed."
I suppose I was conscious of previous comments about "aw, they're going to have to forget all this" as the Father removed the troublesome bits of Anakin's memory, but him doing it did seem to work better than a hypothetical "they wake up at the end and can't remember anything" conclusion. Too, it was sort of interesting to wonder what all three of the "anchorites" dying means given their identification with aspects of the Force...
I can still sort of accept how people might have ambiguities with fitting this "arc" into the larger story of the movies, but it's certainly been interesting.
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Date: 2011-02-12 11:26 pm (UTC)Qui-Gon returning again was a real surprise for me, but it was nice to see Anakin interacting with him; after all, they did that back in The Phantom Menace... One thing that struck me at first about the vision of the future was that Anakin saw "what" and not "why," and I can also ponder him basically surrendering his freedom of action to avoid what he saw, only to wind up sort of where he didn't want to be in the first place. As well, I did think back to old speculation that Anakin's fall would be through "trying to do something for the galaxy as a whole" (often linked to trying to free the slaves on Tatooine), although since noticing those speculations I've thought myself that, since it had already been established he returned from the Dark Side through "focusing on one person," joining it through that does seem to avoid the potential criticism that "doing something 'big' is being downplayed."
I suppose I was conscious of previous comments about "aw, they're going to have to forget all this" as the Father removed the troublesome bits of Anakin's memory, but him doing it did seem to work better than a hypothetical "they wake up at the end and can't remember anything" conclusion. Too, it was sort of interesting to wonder what all three of the "anchorites" dying means given their identification with aspects of the Force...
I can still sort of accept how people might have ambiguities with fitting this "arc" into the larger story of the movies, but it's certainly been interesting.