This is an excellent follow-up to your post "The Jedi Tree and the Sith Throne." I think you should have posted this right afterwards. Do you see the connection between them? Yoda destroys the tree, not out of irreverence or iconoclasm, but to help Luke let go of something that's not needed anymore (true to Jedi teaching). Palpatine wants Rey to take the throne and by joining his spirit with her, he's basically taking it for himself (typical for a Sith). I never saw how much these two sequences parallel each other before.
They're so closely connected I almost made it one big post! But it wouldn't have been as concise as I wanted, and the points seemed distinct enough to warrant two separate entries.
And wow, great call – that's another element of contrast that I hadn't fully recognized. The Jedi are all about letting go, so Yoda comes back from the dead to help Luke let go; the Sith are all about holding on, so Palpatine comes back from the dead to try and hold onto his power.
Another lovely compare/contrast. It reminded me of Rey's meditation, "be with me." Sometimes we practice what isn't working in the moment so that when it's needed the skill is there.
This is an excellent follow-up to your post "The Jedi Tree and the Sith Throne." I think you should have posted this right afterwards. Do you see the connection between them? Yoda destroys the tree, not out of irreverence or iconoclasm, but to help Luke let go of something that's not needed anymore (true to Jedi teaching). Palpatine wants Rey to take the throne and by joining his spirit with her, he's basically taking it for himself (typical for a Sith). I never saw how much these two sequences parallel each other before.
They're so closely connected I almost made it one big post! But it wouldn't have been as concise as I wanted, and the points seemed distinct enough to warrant two separate entries.
And wow, great call – that's another element of contrast that I hadn't fully recognized. The Jedi are all about letting go, so Yoda comes back from the dead to help Luke let go; the Sith are all about holding on, so Palpatine comes back from the dead to try and hold onto his power.
Another lovely compare/contrast. It reminded me of Rey's meditation, "be with me." Sometimes we practice what isn't working in the moment so that when it's needed the skill is there.