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Duty and Detachment
At the beginning and ending of Attack of the Clones, one character convinces another to detach from a loved one in the name of duty.
 • Timothy Lawrence
You Must Kill Vader
In the third episodes of both the prequel trilogy and the original trilogy, a Jedi master urges a younger Jedi to set aside his love for Anakin…
 • Timothy Lawrence
Different Paths, Different Destinies
In A New Hope, Obi-Wan Kenobi separates from his pupil Luke Skywalker while they are trying to escape the Death Star.
 • Timothy Lawrence
Leaving Without You
At the beginning of Revenge of the Sith, Obi-Wan Kenobi’s starfighter is crippled by buzz droids and he urges his apprentice Anakin Skywalker to leave…
 • Timothy Lawrence
Two-Headed Announcer
In The Phantom Menace, Anakin Skywalker wins his freedom from slavery in a dangerous podrace.
 • Timothy Lawrence
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.
 • 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…
 • 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.
 • 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.
 • 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…
 • Robert Brown
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