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Darth Vader #4-6

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Lorenzo Baxter

This is one of my favorite pieces of Star Wars lore. The part where Vader literally is given a vision of a possible future of him turning away from the Dark Side and going back to Obi Wan, is super touching and tragic. Vader immediately denying the light, saying "this is all there is" is hella sad. This darkness is all he has left. He's lost everything else, he can't bear the thought of trying to welcome the light in again, letting go of his pain. It's wild how much lightsaber lore exists simply because of Samuel L. Jackson saying he wanted a purple lightsaber. 😂

Heath Rezabek

Still catching up! ... Right at the end, with the Living Force: This isn't a spoiler, because it's just my interpretation based on years of trying to make sense of it all, but you will hear in these stories, at different times, of the Living Force, and then on the other hand, the Cosmic Force. When it comes up, this clearly isn't the Light and Dark side, but something else. I've come to interpret the Living Force as a fluidity to fate. That tendency for the unexpected to burst in, turn the tables, the possibility of real choice in the moment always ready to rush in. Vader choosing in his vision to kill the Emperor or rejoin Kenobi (but he didn't); Han rushing in to clear the way for Luke's trench run (as he did); Luke throwing away his lightsaber. You just never know. Which is good, because the Cosmic Force, on the other hand, I've come to see as that massive weighty pattern that keeps unfolding and enfolding all around the SW galaxy. Planet-killer weapons invented over and over; limbs keep getting lopped off; on down to people saying 'I've got a bad feeling about this...' So the Cosmic Force is strong, and binds us into patterns, even (in our galaxy too) generational trauma; but the Living Force reminds us there is *always* a chance to flip the script.