Rebellions are built on hope.

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adimouze
adimouze

Interviewer: where would you take Max on a date, Daniel?

Daniel, immediately sweating: oh woah a FRIENDLY date!!! As FRIENDS!!!! We’re competitors!!!! We can’t DATE-

Max: ✨🥰✨I want to go to your farm, Daniel 🥰🥰❤️❤️ and we can go dirt bike racing 🥺❤️🥰❤️🎀 and then not go to the next four races ❤️❤️🥰 cause we’re together 🥰🥰🥰🥰 and you broke your collarbone 😈😈😈

formula 1 unbelievable transcripts but its actually just max verstappen
intermundia
intermundia

i think the reason that i find the tragedy of the prequels so compelling is that anakin is such a good tragic hero. he's shown to be an intelligent man with a mature understanding of the world, who made catastrophic choices on purpose because they were easier and more personally satisfying to him. when fans deny him that agency, i believe they misunderstand the story in important ways. one can say that he was manipulated and deceived, one can diagnose him with every mental illness in the DSM (and people in my notes often do), but one cannot say that he wasn't fast to toss aside his moral values to lash out and to get what he wanted.

the fact of the narrative is that anakin knew better, and he chose the easy option (with full knowledge that it was 'wrong'), because he refused to accept core limitations of reality, namely the inevitability of death. he thought that having special powers meant the rules didn't apply to him and those he loved, and that's how he ended up killing kids and serving as a fascist enforcer for decades. one can contort themselves into knots to try to excuse that, and there were indeed many contextual forces that gave him so much power in the first place, but there is no real excuse for what he chose to do with that power.

without anakin being that kind of moral agent, there is no tragedy. tragedy in an aristotelean sense is a narrative designed to elicit feelings of pity and fear, because we the audience know that we too are doomed to suffer and all too readily make easy, bad choices to avoid pain. none of us want to accept that some parts of life include losing, and require sacrifice. anakin's greed was his undoing, as it is all to often our own. refusing to accept that the tragedy of the prequels, explaining away and excusing the fall of the hero, means protecting ourselves from accepting the painful truth that we are just like him, and can and do make the same kind of mistakes.