Oooh, I'm glad my analysis of the Jabba's-palace scene makes sense! I had honestly never consciously thought about it before, and then your whole discussion here just made me go, "...oh, that's why that's there!"
And, yeah, totally agree both that heart matters and that it needs other things to work. (I also have this snarky political-philosophy-type analysis about how we sometimes get fed "heroes" who have nothing going for them but "heart", or on the other hand how the social focus on "heart" at the expense of noticing the other traits of someone like Luke, precisely because "heart" by itself is useless, and focusing on "heart" as an heroic quality without noticing talent or determination basically fosters the status quo. In other words, the idea that being a "good person" is enough to change the world actually keeps people from thinking about how to change it, and when you add in the fact that a lot of "bad guys" have the talent and determination in spades without the heart, or at least without enough of it, you get a mythology that supports the status quo. Again, file this under Why Luke Skywalker Makes Me Forgive George Lucas SO MANY FLAWS.)
And SO MUCH LOVE for your description of Obi-wan's behavior! And I love your ridiculously uncritical love for Anakin as Obi-wan's pupil. Oh, Ben, you made that boy. And tried to make his son in the same image with that whole stealth patricide thing.
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And, yeah, totally agree both that heart matters and that it needs other things to work. (I also have this snarky political-philosophy-type analysis about how we sometimes get fed "heroes" who have nothing going for them but "heart", or on the other hand how the social focus on "heart" at the expense of noticing the other traits of someone like Luke, precisely because "heart" by itself is useless, and focusing on "heart" as an heroic quality without noticing talent or determination basically fosters the status quo. In other words, the idea that being a "good person" is enough to change the world actually keeps people from thinking about how to change it, and when you add in the fact that a lot of "bad guys" have the talent and determination in spades without the heart, or at least without enough of it, you get a mythology that supports the status quo. Again, file this under Why Luke Skywalker Makes Me Forgive George Lucas SO MANY FLAWS.)
And SO MUCH LOVE for your description of Obi-wan's behavior! And I love your ridiculously uncritical love for Anakin as Obi-wan's pupil. Oh, Ben, you made that boy. And tried to make his son in the same image with that whole stealth patricide thing.