Clone Wars: Season 2, episode 13: Voyager of the Damned.
Spoiler alert
At the climax, a terrorist is threatening to blow up a ship full of civilians. Obi-won Kenobi has him at lightsaber point, and a pacifist duchess has him at blaster point. She got the blaster from the terrorist.
As said terrorist points out: She can shoot him and prove she's no pacifist, or Kenobi can light saber him and prove he doesn't care about her wishes.
At that point, Anakin Skywalker shows up and lightsabers the guy through the heart.
That is: Anakin Skywalker removes the need to make hard moral decisions from his master (and best friend) and the appointed leader of millions of people by being rash.
And if that's not the moral the prequels tried to get across, I don't know what is.
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More, please, Whitney Delaglio ?
ReplyDeleteJust thinking of him in the prequels, sorry. The sudden light/dark flip didn't make me happy.
ReplyDeleteNo worries; those movies don't make much sense. You need to see the years of struggle by Ani and the rest of the jedis for it to make any sense at all. There's a lot of reasons for that, and a war epic could be told in 3 movies that shows a downfall.
ReplyDeleteI need to finish watching the rest of Clone Wars. I had just skipped to the episodes with Fisto XD!
ReplyDeleteYou should! The slow downfall of Ani is worth it. I watch it in bursts; I'll go a month without, then watch 3-4 episodes in a week. Despite the jumping and light sabers and superhuman feats that are basically ignored, there's subtle storytelling in this fall.
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