OMG squee @ fialleril visiting your journal. And yes, more anabasis=Most Noble Cause Ever (unless possibly it is more of irnan's SW fics.) And yay for great minds! :)
OMG, yay for Revenge!verse Qui-gon, and I am so glad you like the idea of Dooku and Qui-gon running around the galaxy being actual Force-serving knights (and not the Senate's muscle, lol). But now I really want Revenge!verse Qui-gon.
And, yeah on Obi-wan's teaching style and its interaction with Anakin's... as you say perfectly, odd passivity: he's very active as long as someone else is picking the objective for him. (It is now my crack!headcanon that the entire tragedy part of RotS could have been averted if Padme had mentally rolled her eyes and said, "All right, dear, go build me a med-droid that's capable of averting whatever scenario you're having nightmares about." Because it's only when Anakin starts, ah, freelancing that things get ugly; he needs someone else to provide him with direction, and there is an angle at which RotS is all about the significant people in his life either exploiting that need [Sidious] or glossing over it [pretty much everyone else and especially the Jedi Order's framing of relationships in general, i.e., I am not blaming Padme for not doing this, but rather suggesting a more awesome scenario for her than the one demanded by the plot. Mostly because I am kind of disgusted at how much the way Lucas chose to operationalize the plot needs in the PT gave Padme the shaft, so I occasionally like coming up with ways she could have fixed everything, lol]. And it also probably explains why he clings to Palpatine like he does for the next two decades: he has just enough self-awareness to realize that it really doesn't end well when he tries to make strategic as opposed to tactical decisions, so to speak.) And oh-so-much-YES on it makes his dying words that much more tragic (as if they needed to be! *sob*).
Oh, I cannot tell you how happy I am that someone else agrees with me about Durnik/Polgara! And... I get Belgareth as being expected to be more powerful, he's her parent and has about three thousand years' worth of divine instruction and experience on her--- but in that case, Durnik should definitely not be Polgara's equal! Not right away, especially!
Heee! Most of my other fannish pals can only write stuff they can believe/buy into, so I am sort of fannishly canalized to give mutually-fun prompts as best I can! :) I am glad this one was fun!
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on 2011-10-27 12:00 am (UTC)OMG, yay for Revenge!verse Qui-gon, and I am so glad you like the idea of Dooku and Qui-gon running around the galaxy being actual Force-serving knights (and not the Senate's muscle, lol). But now I really want Revenge!verse Qui-gon.
And, yeah on Obi-wan's teaching style and its interaction with Anakin's... as you say perfectly, odd passivity: he's very active as long as someone else is picking the objective for him. (It is now my crack!headcanon that the entire tragedy part of RotS could have been averted if Padme had mentally rolled her eyes and said, "All right, dear, go build me a med-droid that's capable of averting whatever scenario you're having nightmares about." Because it's only when Anakin starts, ah, freelancing that things get ugly; he needs someone else to provide him with direction, and there is an angle at which RotS is all about the significant people in his life either exploiting that need [Sidious] or glossing over it [pretty much everyone else and especially the Jedi Order's framing of relationships in general, i.e., I am not blaming Padme for not doing this, but rather suggesting a more awesome scenario for her than the one demanded by the plot. Mostly because I am
kind ofdisgusted at how much the way Lucas chose to operationalize the plot needs in the PT gave Padme the shaft, so I occasionally like coming up with ways she could have fixed everything, lol]. And it also probably explains why he clings to Palpatine like he does for the next two decades: he has just enough self-awareness to realize that it really doesn't end well when he tries to make strategic as opposed to tactical decisions, so to speak.) And oh-so-much-YES on it makes his dying words that much more tragic (as if they needed to be! *sob*).Oh, I cannot tell you how happy I am that someone else agrees with me about Durnik/Polgara! And... I get Belgareth as being expected to be more powerful, he's her parent and has about three thousand years' worth of divine instruction and experience on her--- but in that case, Durnik should definitely not be Polgara's equal! Not right away, especially!
Heee! Most of my other fannish pals can only write stuff they can believe/buy into, so I am sort of fannishly canalized to give mutually-fun prompts as best I can! :) I am glad this one was fun!