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Anakin: You already... have, Luke. You were right. You were right about me. Tell your sister... you were right.

Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

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STAR WARS: EPISODE III - REVENGE OF THE SITH (2005) STAR WARS: EPISODE IV - RETURN OF THE JEDI (1983)

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“This is the way.”

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Have you watched Season 2 of The Mandalorian, Ch. 9: The Marshal, yet?

What are your thoughts/reactions to the episode?

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“Did you bring me anything of value, bounty hunter?”

“Not much. Just his name.”

“Skywalker.”

Converstion between Boba Fett and Darth Vader from Marvel’s Darth Vader Comic Series, Issue 6.

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Excerpt from Matthew Stover’s Revenge Of The Sith:

This is how it feels to be Anakin Skywalker, forever:

The first dawn of light in your universe brings pain. The light burns you. It will always burn you. Part of you will always lie upon glass sand beside a lake of fire while flames chew upon your flesh.

You can hear yourself breathing. It comes hard, and harsh, and it scrapes nerves already raw, but you cannot stop it. You can never stop it. You cannot even slow it down.

You don’t have lungs anymore.

Mechanisms hardwired into your chest breathe for you. They will pump oxygen into your blood stream forever.

Lord Vader? Lord Vader, can you hear me?

And you can’t, not in the way you once did. Sensors in that shell that prisons your head trickle meaning directly into your brain.

You open your scorched-pale eyes; optical sensors integrate light and shadow into a hideous simulacrum of the world around you.

Or perhaps the simulacrum is perfect, and it is the world that is hideous.

Padmé? Are you here? Are you all right? you try to say, but another voice speaks for you, out from the vocabulator that serves you for burned-away lips and tongue and throat.

“Padmé? Are you here? Are you all right?”

I’m very sorry, Lord Vader. I’m afraid she died. It seems in your anger, you killed her.

This burns hotter than the lava had.

“No . . . no, it is not possible!”

You loved her. You will always love her. You could never will her death.

Never.

But you remember . . .

You remember all of it.

You remember the dragon that you brought Vader forth from your heart to slay. You remember the cold venom in Vader’s hatred of seizing her throat to silence her lying mouth—

And there is one blazing moment in which you finally understand that there was no dragon. That there was no Vader. That there was only you. Only Anakin Skywalker.

That is all you. Is you.

Only you.

You did it.

You killed her.

You killed her because, finally, when you could have saved her, when you could have gone away with her, when you could have been thinking about her, you were thinking about yourself . . .

It is this blazing moment that you finally understand the trap of the dark side, the final cruelty of the Sith— Because now your self is all you will ever have.

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TATOOINE 

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ANAKIN SKYWALKER AS DARTH VADER in the STAR WARS FILM FRANCHISE

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Check out these awesome ‘Father & Son’ parallel shots. Despite the controversy of The Last Jedi/Luke Skywalker’s portrayal in it, I didn’t realize until now, just how much I needed this edit.

Most often than not, things don’t go the way we have in mind or have intended for them. Families don’t always stay or end up together; I know mine didn’t.

In these two separate adaptations, we visually see a ‘single’ point of view (from an audience standpoint) however, we all distinctively know, much more is going on. After all, it is Star Wars.

In an alternate ‘what if’ Star Wars universe, I wish Anakin Skywalker would have been able to watch his son grow up (his daughter, too). I wish Ben Solo would have been able to experience life with his grandfather. I wish Padmé would have had the family she so wished and longer for, back together, on Naboo.

But as wise Qui-Gon Jinn once said, “A path will be placed before you. The choice is yours alone.”

Had the young 23 year old Jedi, Anakin Skywalker known what the future would hold, I’d like to believe he would have chosen the alternative path. Had Luke Skywalker known what the future would hold, I’d like to believe he would have chosen the alternative path. Had Ben Solo known what the future would hold, I’d like to believe he would have chosen the alternative path...

At the end of the day, we all make mistakes. But what truly matters, is if we decide to face that truth. All three of these characters inevitably made the heroic conscious choice to face the consequences of their actions. I think that’s something we can all value and take some lesson from, fiction or not.

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40 years ago, we were given some of the greatest Darth Vader lines: “Join me, and together we can rule the galaxy as father and son.”

Dark, sinister, but ultimately even more involving than A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back defies viewer expectations and takes the series to heightened emotional levels.

“The film became the highest-grossing film of 1980. Though it was met with divided reviews, it is now regarded as the best film in the Star Wars saga and one of the greatest films ever made.”

I can’t believe this movie is 40 years old today...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY STAR WARS: EPISODE V - THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK

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Happy B-Day Revenge of the Sith!

*blows kiss to space* for Hayden Christensen in Episode III

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15 years ago today, my 8 year old self was sitting in the theater with my parents, my little sister, and my older cousin (who was more like a big brother to me) watching Revenge of The Sith. I loved every second of the film. From that day on, it has forever been my favorite movie.

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Well, damn.

*narrator voice* they were not fine

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I don’t know if it’s the empath in me, but anytime I imagine this scene on Mustafar, I get a pain in my chest and practically come to tears. It physically hurts my heart.

You were the Chosen One! It was said that you would destroy the Sith, not join them. Bring balance to the force, not leave it in darkness. You were my brother, Anakin! I loved you

Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005) Dir. George Lucas

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The Team + expectations not being met

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Was casually watching fan edits on YouTube in honor of Star Wars: The Clone Wars ending (still trying to process all the emotions - was always a Revenge of the Sith fan, so this broke my heart all over again.) and noticed the thumbnail on the next video...

All I can say is WOW! The creators did such a phenomenal job over the years on Clone Wars really mimicking the look of Anakin Skywalker portrayed by Hayden Christensen.

Even though these two scenes are separate instances (one being the movie: Obi-Wan & Anakin lightsaber duel on Mustafar, the other from The Clone Wars series) the overall look is VERY similar! I love it!

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I love them so much.

Shoutout to Star Wars: The Clone Wars for giving the viewers more depth on this star-crossed love.

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“The sarcasm of a soldier”

“The delusions of a dreamer.”

The Clone Wars, season 2, episode 13 “Voyage of Temptation”

By special request by a dear anon for Obitine Week 2018 ❤