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Fathers on Elevators
In Return of the Jedi, Darth Vader uses an elevator to ascend to the top of Emperor Palpatine’s tower on the Second Death Star.
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Robert Brown
Abandoning Attachment
In the third episodes of both the prequel trilogy and the original trilogy, the Jedi and the Sith both tell a Skywalker to abandon his attachment to a…
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Timothy Lawrence
Assenting Mothers and Conflicted Children
In The Acolyte and The Phantom Menace, a Jedi on a mission has a chance encounter with a Force-sensitive child whose birth is shrouded in mystery.
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Timothy Lawrence
Jod the Jedi?
In Skeleton Crew, Wim and his friends band together with the enigmatic Jod Na Nawood, whom Wim assumes is a Jedi because he can use the Force.
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Robert Brown
Redeeming Attachments
Across the nine-film Skywalker Saga, there is a movement away from seeing attachment only as a cause for destructive fears and toward seeing attachment…
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Robert Brown
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