Thursday, February 22, 2018

Thanks to 'The Last Jedi', I'm now okay with Hayden Christensen's Force Ghost in 'Return of the Jedi'.


I've been a vocal opponent of Hayden Christensen appearing as Anakin's force ghost at the end of the DVD edition of Return of the Jedi for years. I felt like it actively diminished Anakin's narrative arc by implying that he died at Mustafar, rather than when he killed the Emperor.Sebastian Shaw's ghost appearance implies that Anakin Skywalker never truly died, that Luke WAS right, and he managed to redeem his father from his hellish, waking nightmare, resulting in a real narrative and emotional payoff. Whereas, Hayden's appearance robs us of this, and implies that Luke's father was truly dead and incapable of being redeemed. Darth Vader is then, in effect, a completely separate persona and it is he one who turns, which doesn't feel as satisfying to me.However, given Old Man Luke's use of force projections to reflect himself as a slightly younger man to manipulate Kylo Ren's anger, I can see how Anakin's spirit form would prefer to appear as he once did, and how he last saw himself. So I absolutely concede this point.That being said, they need to reshoot that footage of him they inserted, because he looks completely oblivious to whatever is going on around him. Have him at least look at Obi-Wan and Yoda, dammit! This is the new hill I have chosen to die on. via /r/StarWars http://ift.tt/2GB8o2z

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