Star Wars: Attack of the Clones
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butterflyIt's amazing how much more interesting things are when you care. Well, not amazing so much as obvious, but still.
The Obi-Wan/Anakin dynamic is fraught and complex here. It hasn't settled into the more easy affection of RotS, but the love is still plainly there, on both sides. Also, I'd love a chance to compare images of Anakin's glance up after his mother dies to him seeing Obi-Wan fall against Dooku in the beginning of RotS. They struck me as similar, but I'd feel better about that if I could see them side-by-side.
The only other time I watched this, it was with my dad and it was purely for Ewan. The politics and the romance were boring because I didn't care about where they were going. I believe that, at the time, I made a comment about how 'obvious' it was that Anakin would go evil and... yeah, of course it was, because I already knew that he would. I wasn't thinking of the movie where it was in the saga, but of when it was released, years after we knew about Darth Vader.
This time, that the moment in the meadow, where Anakin reveals that he doesn't so much see the bad in a dictatorship? I got chills. And Padmé laughs it off, chooses to believe that he's teasing her, and that's a moment in time when Anakin's course could have been shifted. If she'd taken him seriously, if they'd talked about their differing political views, some things might have gone differently. Or not. Anakin is confident in his views and extremely stubborn.
I loved Obi-Wan's stuff at the time because, you know, Ewan, but this time around, I really appreciated what it meant for Obi-Wan as a character. I watched the deleted scenes and I really like that Lucas cut Obi-Wan telling Mace about Anakin's feelings for Padmé. It complicates Obi-Wan's character not to tell, not to reveal Anakin's attachments, and thus (to us) revealing his own.
I wish that some of the Padmé deleted scenes had been in. On the other hand, this makes her family extra-canonical, which is nice from a fanfic point of view. Win-lose.
The Obi-Wan/Anakin dynamic is fraught and complex here. It hasn't settled into the more easy affection of RotS, but the love is still plainly there, on both sides. Also, I'd love a chance to compare images of Anakin's glance up after his mother dies to him seeing Obi-Wan fall against Dooku in the beginning of RotS. They struck me as similar, but I'd feel better about that if I could see them side-by-side.
The only other time I watched this, it was with my dad and it was purely for Ewan. The politics and the romance were boring because I didn't care about where they were going. I believe that, at the time, I made a comment about how 'obvious' it was that Anakin would go evil and... yeah, of course it was, because I already knew that he would. I wasn't thinking of the movie where it was in the saga, but of when it was released, years after we knew about Darth Vader.
This time, that the moment in the meadow, where Anakin reveals that he doesn't so much see the bad in a dictatorship? I got chills. And Padmé laughs it off, chooses to believe that he's teasing her, and that's a moment in time when Anakin's course could have been shifted. If she'd taken him seriously, if they'd talked about their differing political views, some things might have gone differently. Or not. Anakin is confident in his views and extremely stubborn.
I loved Obi-Wan's stuff at the time because, you know, Ewan, but this time around, I really appreciated what it meant for Obi-Wan as a character. I watched the deleted scenes and I really like that Lucas cut Obi-Wan telling Mace about Anakin's feelings for Padmé. It complicates Obi-Wan's character not to tell, not to reveal Anakin's attachments, and thus (to us) revealing his own.
I wish that some of the Padmé deleted scenes had been in. On the other hand, this makes her family extra-canonical, which is nice from a fanfic point of view. Win-lose.