Episode 3 Acolyte That’s pretty amazing. Many reasonsContent-wise, this episode gives us the opportunity to consider some new perspectives on this story. The most basic spiritual ideaand provides substantial backstories for both protagonists and antagonists. Star Wars: It asks us not to assume that what we see is the whole truth.
“Destiny” marks the end of the current story Acolyte And in Jedi Murder Mystery, we go back 16 years to explore Osha and Mei Anissaya’s upbringing as part of a coven on the planet Brendok, and the tragic circumstances that tore their family apart (Mei appears to die, Osha is recruited into a group of Jedi). But the episode is never explicitly structured as a flashback for either sister. When the episode begins, we’re already in Brendok, 16 years ago, and the episode ends and the credits roll. We never return to the present to be told how what’s shown in the flashback is delivered to us. While the episode leaves the audience with plenty of clues about whose perspective we’re seeing (it’s Osha whose perspective follows us most closely throughout the episode), it asks the audience to intuit it for themselves, without ever explicitly saying so.
And in doing so, he asks the audience to take it a step further: One When we look at it from a biased perspective, we see that it doesn’t paint the whole picture. There are things in Destiny that aren’t obvious from moment to moment, or that don’t line up with what we’re told about what actually happened. For example, we’re told that the accident that wiped out the entire coven except for Osha was “just” a fire, but from young Osha’s perspective, it was a much more devastating and complicated event than that fire, resulting in a pile of scattered witch corpses.
This episode gives us a deeper understanding of Osha and her sister’s pasts and why they are on the path they are on 16 years later, but it also leaves us with so many questions — not just about what we don’t see in this series of flashbacks, but about the perspective behind what we’re seeing. do look. Acolyte The work wants us to realize that it’s not just telling us the whole picture, but a particular perspective of that picture, a perspective that is essentially constructed from memories shaped by our biases and perceptions. At some point further down the story, we may encounter another narrative that changes what we thought we knew about this event, adds context, or conversely adds something new, and that narrative is itself just a perspective shaped by our perceived biases. Star Wars Have Wear that inspiration for a long time Akira Kurosawa’s Hidden Fortress On the sleeve Star Wars Now through the vector of another Kurosawa film: RashomonHe repeatedly narrated the classic “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba,” a 1950 story about the murder of a samurai, to the audience in contradictory and subjective narration. RashomonThe film received international success and acclaim, and gave name to the “Rashomon effect”, a storytelling method that acknowledges the unreliability of the narrator or witness by presenting different interpretations of the same events.
And it is a narrative device. very rare Star WarsOf course, it’s not something completely new. The Last JediFor example, if we See another memory The night Luke Skywalker’s Jedi Academy was destroyed, he was so afraid of his own dark side that he nearly killed his own nephew. Star Wars“The broad story is something we’ve learned in no particular order, and then we need to know how the further context has shaped and changed what we thought we knew. We’ve gone from the original trilogy to the prequels to the sequels years later. And now, in between those series of films, there are shows, comics and books that have provided a way of explaining or bridging characters and events across that entire span of the Skywalker Saga. Especially now that Lucasfilm is under the Disney umbrella, Completely renovate Star Wars Continuity, going back to the origins of what would become the nine original films, is essentially about this: we are constantly learning new information that contradicts or recontextualizes what came before.
But that is why doing this – telling us about an event for the first time, while implicitly asking us in the process not to immediately believe it as a completely true story – is so rare and so dangerous in the first place. Star Warsand much of that fandom. The rule is kingEvery new show, book, movie, comic, video game, etc. is part of this single, explicit canon. Whether intentional or not, viewers are expected to interpret the stories presented to them and A set of rules Methodology Star Wars‘We reduce the way the world works to raw facts about characters and events, and we believe those things to be true without question, because they fit this new normative definition. Star Wars is a universe as a whole; the facts are as fundamental to its existence as a franchise as the narrative embellishments created to weave the facts into the universe in the first place.
Even if, as we said, Star Wars Since its inception, it has always been built on half-truths and myths.From a Certain PerspectiveIt’s as close to a catchphrase as “May the Force be with you.” Audiences are taught to expect that whatever story is presented in new material should be trusted as true within that context. Star Wars‘ Foundational canon. The moments when a particular story decides to challenge that idea are not only incredibly rare and exciting, but also deeply controversial for many people. This is not something we get asked often. Star WarsEven if that’s a common way of telling a story. After all, it’s unfair to deceive an audience that isn’t used to being deceived, for better or for worse. You can’t teach your audience to treat everything as a fact to be studied and classified, and then suddenly start telling them that not all of those facts are necessarily true. There has to be a level of trust on both sides before you can conduct such an experiment.
But a galaxy far, far away that asks us to consider such ideas – that there are many perspectives and ideas to consider about the story being told to us, that being open to doubt at times may allow us to broaden our interpretations, not because of the failure of the story, is far more powerful, far more interesting, than one that doesn’t, through the sheer possibilities it opens up. Star Wars From a storytelling perspective Star Wars Anything can be true, and sometimes it just isn’t true… from a certain point of view.
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