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Post #1315804

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theMaestro
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Why don't people hate the Palpatine re-casting in ESB yet despise Force ghost Anakin's re-casting in RotJ?
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Date created
30-Dec-2019, 5:00 PM

Of all the forms he could take, the Shaw form makes the most sense. Visually, it’s consistent with how the other ghosts don’t magically de-age from when they died. And thematically, it represents growth with how the character has truly become a better person after all his life experiences. Any pre-Vader Anakin form just symbolizes regression because PT Anakin still acts on greedily possessive “love”, whereas post-Vader Anakin has finally grown beyond that flaw.