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Foolish Personas
In The Empire Strikes Back and The Acolyte, a master adopts a foolish persona to reveal the true character of a prospective pupil.
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Timothy Lawrence
Mirrored Mentors
Palpatine's mentorship of Anakin Skywalker in Revenge of the Sith closely mirrors Obi-Wan Kenobi's mentorship of Luke Skywalker in A New Hope.
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Timothy Lawrence
Anakin Must Choose
In the third episodes of the prequel and original trilogies, there is a three-way confrontation in the room from which Palpatine rules the galaxy.
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Timothy Lawrence
Imitating Palpatine
In “Announcement” (Andor 1.7), Senator Mon Mothma confides in a friend that her public persona is “a lie.
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Robert Brown
Kanan's Last Lesson
In "Zero Hour: Part 1" (Rebels 3.21), the Jedi Knight Kanan Jarrus reflects on his mentorship of his apprentice, Ezra Bridger.
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Timothy Lawrence
Between a Believer and a Skeptic
In "Aldhani" (Andor 1.4), after leaving his home world of Ferrix, Cassian Andor joins a Rebel group and finds himself caught between the true believer…
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Timothy Lawrence
Finn's Lessons
Around the midpoint of both The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi, Finn travels through hyperspace with a mentor figure who tries to teach him an…
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Timothy Lawrence
Sowing Doubts
In the middle films of both the Prequel Trilogy and the Original Trilogy, a Sith Lord tries to tempt a younger man to the Dark Side, in part by sowing…
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Robert Brown
Help Me, Obi-Wan Kenobi
In each act of The Empire Strikes Back, Luke Skywalker is on a different planet, and on each planet, he talks with or calls out to the ghost of his…
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Robert Brown
Master Sol
In The Acolyte, Jedi Master Sol takes the young Osha Aniseya away from her home on the planet Brendok to become a Jedi under his tutelage.
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Timothy Lawrence
Sunset and Twilight
In the second acts of The Phantom Menace and Return of the Jedi, Anakin and Luke Skywalker receive similar guidance from older characters who have…
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Timothy Lawrence
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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