#* sw : revenge of the sith novelization.

[intermundia]

Top 5 Mustafar Quotes That Make Me Insane

1.After choking Padmé, fully high on the dark side, Anakin still offers Obi-Wan a chance to walk away. [+at the beginning of the book it's explicitly stated that Obi-Wan "frankly prefers to sit alone in a quiet cave and meditate" so... yes, anakin, it IS what he likes]

2.The iconic "identical, better than brothers, more intimately than lovers, complementary halves" quote, which is followed by Obi-Wan's inability to actually attack the man he came to the planet to kill.

3.Obi-Wan sensing death and deciding they should go there together

4. The repeated emphasis on how close they were and why this hurts so much more. It's personal.

5.The fact that "despite it all... Obi-Wan still loved him."

there's really no words for the cumulative impact of the 11 or so pages of the mustafar fight in the novel. it appears after about 400 pages setting the stage, and only 12 pages follow it before the end of the book. the fight stretches out on film as one of the longest of all time, but in the novel it's a harsh punctuation mark that pierces the paper and bleeds ink through the page. it stabs you, twists the knife, and fades away. i will never really get over it, i think.

[skywalkr-nberrie]

Apart from the fact that Padmé had said she knew she’d no longer be allowed to serve in the senate, Anakin saying he wanted to leave the Jedi and be with Padmé, and Padmé outwardly saying that she wanted to raise her and Anakin’s kids on Naboo, and run away with him to the Lake Country (it’s even stated so by Trisha Bigger in Dressing a Galaxy, when asked about what Padmé’s funeral dress was supposed to symbolize):

We do see a bit more implications within the ROTS novel that tell us how Padmé and Anakin were keen on leaving behind duty, to live together peacefully, and raise their kids.

In this scene of the novel, we see that OW is encouraging Padmé to watch over Anakin (as he’s growing more concerned of his mental state) and somewhat asks her to “leave him” because her relationship to him strains his position as a Jedi, and it would be a mistake if he left. Padmé insists that it doesn’t matter, because Anakin is said to be the chosen one, therefore he would remain a Jedi as so the prophecy states. But on the contrary, OW tells her that he’s scanned the prophecy and it’s no where said that the chosen one had to be a Jedi. At this point, the parts I’ve highlighted shows to us how Padmé begins to hope, that she describes as desperate and leaving her breathless. She now knows that Anakin, her husband, doesn’t need to remain in the Order to complete his legacy as the chosen one. Leaving more room for her to hope for the future that she and Anakin so desperately crave together.

Up until now, Padmé didn’t want to take Anakin away from his duty and responsibilities as a Jedi, partly because of the Republic and it’s reliance on him, but mostly because she didn’t want to take away his dream of being a Jedi. Part of this feeling also stems from the prophecy stating that Anakin IS the chosen one. Knowing how Padmé is very prone to justice, and helping the galaxy especially for those in need of saving. It’s not hard to put two and two together that she’d feel guilt for making Anakin choose her over fulfilling his mission as the chosen one. (Even though to Anakin, there was never a choice. He would inevitably always choose Padmé.) This passage alone gives her the hope and confirmation she’s always desperately wanted that Anakin didn’t have to remain a Jedi to be the chosen one. So she feels a sense of relief knowing she can still have him, run away with him, and at the same time, not take him away from the grand destiny he was always meant for.

In this passage^^ Anakin also mentions that he and Padmé have talked about what would happen now that she was pregnant, and he says that they’ve decided that they would remain in their respective positions for as long as they could until the secret was no longer concealable. Another implication of how they HAVE talked about leaving their duties behind in favour of running away together. The result was made from the circumstances Anakin was in of course. He wanted to stay in the Order longer to find a way to save Padmé. Padmé only wanted to keep it a secret to protect Anakin, so that he could stay in the Order. (No mention of herself or her duty.)

Padmé had already gone through the consequences her pregnancy would lead too, and she didn’t care for them. She says she’d be “relieved” of her senatorial duties, and she made her peace with it. She was ready to move on and begin her life with Anakin. She was only worried for what everything would mean for Anakin. She was worried what it would do for him, and he, of course, decided that he didn’t care either. He also just wanted to run away with his wife and be together as one big family.

In Padmé’s words:

“Come away with me, leave everything else behind while we still can.”

[inquisitor-apologist]

The tragedy of Revenge of the Sith is not that it was unavoidable. It was so, so very avoidable, up until the last minute, and even beyond then.

Anakin’s choices are what defined the narrative; him choosing differently just once could’ve saved everyone. Anakin had every chance, every reason, every ability not to do what he did. He still did it.

And we can’t stop him. We can’t take those choices away from him, we can’t change them or fix him. We can only watch as he chooses wrong and wrong and wrong, because it’s not our story , it’s his, and it’s already over.

The tragedy of the Prequels was never that they were always going to happen like that. The tragedy is that we could never have stopped them ending like that. They happened a long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. Nothing could’ve been done to change them. They already happened. Anakin already made them happen.

[currentlyonstandbi]

[mformarsala]

i can't begin to tell you how insane this line makes me

[bryscorner]

“All things die, Anakin Skywalker. Even stars burn out.”

- Revenge of the Sith novelization (2005)

[spectrestardust]

“He remembered Obi-Wan telling him about some poet he'd once read-he couldn't remember the name, or the exact quote, but it was something about how there is no greater misery than to remember, with bitter regret, a day when you were happy . . .”

revenge of the sith novelization x dante alighieri

[sweetmaggie]

Excuse me???? How kriffin' dare you????! 😭😭😭

[brazen-kenobi]

“Training Anakin and fighting beside him all these years has unlocked something in Obi-Wan. It’s as though Anakin has rubbed off on him a bit, and has loosened that clench jaw insistence and absolute correctness that Qui-Gon always said was his greatest flaw. Obi-Wan Kenobi has learned to relax. He smiles now, and sometimes even jokes. And has become known for the wisdom gentle humor can provide.”

- Matthew Stover, Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith

[lummox-exe]

actual footage of matthew stover writing the the FIRST FUCKING PAGE of RotS

[heartofroses112]

reading Revenge of the Sith by Matthew Stover and damn it’s only been one chapter but the emphasis on Anakin and Obi-Wan and how intertwined they are is killing me

[intermundia]

so starting around page 375 in revenge of the sith, the book begins to bleed highlighter from the amount of psychic damage i was taking while reading it. it's one thing to see on screen and another thing to peel back the visual to stare directly at obi-wan's mind as he takes in something incomprehensibly painful.

just.... twisting the knife!! it was only a week since the conversation where anakin apologized about his arrogance and wished him well!! since then obi-wan has been shot at by his friends and had to walk through the halls of his home strewn with the bodies of his slain family, but it is seeing the truth about anakin that makes him give in to despair.

it's a good thing that yoda is there, for all his brutal honesty. "Make a Jedi fall, one cannot; beyond even Lord Sidious, this is. Chose this, Skywalker did." i love how explicitly clear he makes this for obi-wan, not letting him evade the truth: anakin did it on purpose. nobody forced him to do it, sidious merely invited him forward but he took the step, and "why matters not" because there is no excuse, no valid, acceptable, or moral rationale for what he's done.

"out of his misery, you must put him." while i think yoda is right to associate anakin's potent mixture of fear, anger, and suffering with misery, there is also some level of dramatic irony in these words from the audience knowing that obi-wan's confrontation with anakin on mustafar will do the exact opposite of that, putting anakin in far more misery than most human beings could possibly withstand.

[skywalkr-nberrie]

“And so they would take her Anakin away from her again.”

I love how in this scene, Padmé assumes Anakin is once again being sent away on a mission, she mourns how they were (the Jedi and the Republic) taking her husband away from her again, and at that same moment, Luke and Leia from within the womb shift a little as Padmé conceives this thought. Then she corrects herself saying that Anakin was being taken away from “them” and not only herself. Clearly showing us that there’s already a remnant of an attachment and bond with the unborn twins to their father.

Oh, to think of what the Skywalker family could’ve been.

[klazje]

rots novelization…you’re too good for this franchise

[currentlyonstandbi]

george lucas should have left this scene in the final cut because it slaps HARD

[autismmydearwatson]

Star Wars is trying to kill me

(from Thrawn: Alliances and Revenge of the Sith novelization)