& let not your heart be sad

Star Wars is a lot of things. It’s about a lot of things. Family, hope, compassion, forgiveness, redemption, tragedy, war, peace, the goodness in people. But all in all, it’s about choices.

Star Wars is about choices. People make choices in these stories and they aren’t generally forced into any of them. It’s about agency, the ability to make those choices and owning up to them. And guess what? Anakin made the choices he did without anyone forcing him to do them. He made those choices knowing exactly what he was doing and exactly how wrong it was.

And the point is, that people allow him to make those choices. They can’t make them for him. He has to make those choices. And he doesn’t want to.

Anakin doesn’t want to make choices.

But in the end, of every episode, every movie, every defining moment, he makes a choice anyways. And until the end, none of them come out the way he wants them too.

Oh, okay, I thought my pain threshold had been reached but it seems I was thoroughly mistaken. Hm. How about that.

The twirl is fucking hilarious but look at the little foot taps. LOOK AT THE FEET OKAY.

I have a point to this. This right here?????? He’s going through the basic steps.

HE’S GOING BACK TO READY POSITION AFTER A STRIKE.

Y’all. I’ve already seen a few people saying the fight choreography needs work in this episode but they are all WRONG.

Obi-Wan is either really sloppy in this episode or he’s overly perfect. He takes so long to go back to ready position he does a little flip while his feet take the time. He’s legit going step by step.

Y’know what he’s doing? He’s practicing.

He’s literally training to use a lightsaber again. You can SEE him getting back into the groove. Because he knows he’s gonna have to fight Vader again (maybe he doesn’t know how soon it’s gonna be but now that he knows Anakin’s alive I’m sure he understands a fight is down the road).

HE IS PRACTICING THE STEPS. YOU CAN SEE HIM DO IT. The way he deflects the blaster bolts too. He’s so FOCUSED. In the past he just did it without second thought but he has to relearn. Every single blaster bolt required a movement and thought you could just tell from the way he held himself.

As long as we’re on the same side, everything will come out well in the end. I’m certain of it.

OBI WAN KENOBI (2022) STAR WARS: REVENGE OF THE SITH (2005)