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[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 1 points 3 days ago

I felt the same way about episode 6's waning mythological feel, until I recently watched all 6 in the so-called "Machete" order (4 -> 5 ->1 -> 2 -> 3 -> 6). Ending with 6 right after having gone through the prequels ramped the myth feeling up to 11 for me in a very interesting way - there are so many parallels between 3 and 6 and at the same time 6 shines so much the brighter in contrast to 3. There's a cyclical nature to the whole star wars narrative project as directed by George Lucas that I never noticed for my self until this rewatch, despite having seen all 6 movies over a dozen times each.

Especially the juxtaposition of Anakin's confrontation of Windu and Palpatine, contrasted with Luke's confrontation of Vader and Palps. It was always apparent that Luke's decision to forfeit his life rather than killing his father was his way of breaking his family's cycle (and symbolic of the rest of the Galaxy breaking free of the empire), but when I was just watching his father condemn the entire galaxy to fascism and evil on the off chance that his wife will be "saved" an hour or two earlier, it just hit different.