Watching as a trickster

[vilakins]

A while ago tiamatschild told me about a technique called 'reading as a trickster', used to reclaim texts for women. I decided I needed to do it for Star Wars.

Anakin Skywalker, we are told in ep I, resulted from a virgin birth created by the midichlorians; at least that's what Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon thought at the time. However, Palpatine / Darth Sidious tells Anakin about a Sith lord who solved the mystery of life and was eventually killed by his apprentice once he had learned his secrets. Palpy is obviously the apprentice. I think either he or his master created Anakin as an experiment. That Anakin is not wholly evil, but in fact resists the lure of the dark side for so long, is due to also inheriting the strength, love, and great goodness of his mother, and the later influence of Padme.

Anakin is not the chosen one. Luke and Leia may well be, and they are good people due to the power of their inheritance from Padme. The goodness of their mother and grandmother defeats the dark side midichlorians used to create Anakin.

Luke is sent to Tatooine because Obi-Wan is relying first on the ruse of making Padme's corpse look still pregnant, and if that fails, he's there lying in wait for Vader. In the meantime, the child Vader will never find about, the girl Leia, is sent to Alderaan where she will be raised as a ruler, the inheritor of Padme's power and promise, and the leader of the future rebellion. It's chance that Luke ends up the one who gets the Jedi training. :-)

Comments

[zoefruitcake.livejournal.com]

makes sense to me.

I've been arguing elsewhere that I think Anakin isn't the chosen one, I believe Luke to be as he brings balance etc etc

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Yes, I think it's Luke--and Leia. Obi-Wan tells him that there is another should he fail, but he doesn't. He redeems Vader, plus he refuses to kill his defeated enemy, proving he has more strength and goodness than Anakin or Windu.

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

Oh, I always assumed that meant a child of Leia and Han would be the hero (or - let's be wildly optimistic, despite the evidence to hand - heroine) of parts 7-9.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I assume it was Leia as Obi-Wan uses the present tense rather than the future.

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

I was working on the principle of a generation per trilogy, I suppose.

[redstarrobot.livejournal.com]

But Anakin does bring balance to the force. He evens out the number of Sith and Jedi really effectively. I never understood, back in Ep I, why the Jedi thought balance would be a good thing to look for, when the light side had such dominance and the dark side was so marginalized. Clearly, bringing balance is going to give the dark side more power.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Perhaps the Jedi didn't realise what 'balance' meant. Or perhaps they weren't so light themselves. They were a major reason for Anakin turning to the dark with their arrogance, rigid rules, and weakness: they didn't see how Palpy really was; didn't they look at their 'feelings'?

[tiamatschild.livejournal.com]

*nodnod* I think that makes a lot of sense. I always thought the idea of Anakin being the chosen one was a little odd. *grins* Part of me was always insisting that, mythologically, you need two for balance, at least. So the twins work much better, in that light.

*grins* I like this!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thank you! And thanks for telling me about the technique.