Star Wars: The Clone Wars
...could almost be called, "You WILL Have World Ending Feelings About Anakin Skywalker, Like It Or Not."
I just watched S2:E13, and the moment when the music slides to those couple of chords from The Imperial March that the films have always used as Darth Vader's fanfare - - -
I gasped and covered my mouth.
I really appreciate how this show is mindful of and committed to showing how many of the things that admirable about Anakin, especially those that make him so valuable to the Republic in a galaxy at war, are tangled deeply into the things that imperil him and precipitate his downfall. And most of the time, he really doesn't have the good sense and emotional resilience and capacity for sustained self reflection to even notice. He's so blithe and unconcerned after that moment, laughing at Obi Wan yelling at him - hooo boy.
Drat it all I didn't ask for these feelings, I just wanted adorable trainee Jedi teenage girls! And yes! The show delivered on that front! (And how.) But it snuck the feelings in too and drat. Drat it. Drat it all.
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I just watched S2:E13, and the moment when the music slides to those couple of chords from The Imperial March that the films have always used as Darth Vader's fanfare - - -
I gasped and covered my mouth.
I really appreciate how this show is mindful of and committed to showing how many of the things that admirable about Anakin, especially those that make him so valuable to the Republic in a galaxy at war, are tangled deeply into the things that imperil him and precipitate his downfall. And most of the time, he really doesn't have the good sense and emotional resilience and capacity for sustained self reflection to even notice. He's so blithe and unconcerned after that moment, laughing at Obi Wan yelling at him - hooo boy.
Drat it all I didn't ask for these feelings, I just wanted adorable trainee Jedi teenage girls! And yes! The show delivered on that front! (And how.) But it snuck the feelings in too and drat. Drat it. Drat it all.
This entry was originally posted at http://tiamatschild.dreamwidth.org/132342.html. Please feel free to comment there using OpenID. Or here! It'll be read either way, is what I'm saying.