The Out-of-place Reappearance?
Oct. 16th, 2013 08:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krpalmerIn trying to summarize "The Star Wars Heresies," I suppose a few of the reactions I'd had to it managed to slip my mind, and in a case or two they'd tied into thoughts I'd been mulling over for a while. It was something to be told near the close of Revenge of the Sith how Qui-Gon had managed to connect one last thread between then and now, but not being shown (or even hearing from) Liam Neeson did leave the obvious feeling that something was missing. Now that I'm remembering it, though, just as when I saw Nilbog's Storybook Land also bring the point up not that long before reading the book a part of me does wonder about how "glaring" this absence really is to me.
I suppose this has to do with where I've heard the actual appearance would have shown up. In the expanded script in the back of "The Art of Revenge of the Sith," Yoda hears from Qui-Gon while meditating alone on Polis Massa, right before Obi-Wan arrives with the sinking-fast Padme. Hearing about Qui-Gon's return, to me, was a "transcendent" moment, one where things start to seem a little better at last for the surviving heroes. It somehow feels a little out of place for him to actually have appeared as things start being closed out for the older Skywalkers, and with that in mind I have the perhaps odd feeling that I can understand why the scene wasn't pushed for.
In having said all of that, I am wondering if it could be pushed a little further to "now, what should have been done is...", and in wondering that I can see how "uncritical" might be applied. However, to me at least there's a distinction between "getting better still" and "getting dissatisfied over what is just because of the ghost of what might have been."
I suppose this has to do with where I've heard the actual appearance would have shown up. In the expanded script in the back of "The Art of Revenge of the Sith," Yoda hears from Qui-Gon while meditating alone on Polis Massa, right before Obi-Wan arrives with the sinking-fast Padme. Hearing about Qui-Gon's return, to me, was a "transcendent" moment, one where things start to seem a little better at last for the surviving heroes. It somehow feels a little out of place for him to actually have appeared as things start being closed out for the older Skywalkers, and with that in mind I have the perhaps odd feeling that I can understand why the scene wasn't pushed for.
In having said all of that, I am wondering if it could be pushed a little further to "now, what should have been done is...", and in wondering that I can see how "uncritical" might be applied. However, to me at least there's a distinction between "getting better still" and "getting dissatisfied over what is just because of the ghost of what might have been."