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Post #1595818

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Humby
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The Acolyte (live action series set in The High Republic era) - a general discussion thread
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19-Jun-2024, 10:33 PM

Channel72 said:

I’ve seen lots of people online complaining about the supernatural conception of Mae/Osha via the Force, because they feel it detracts from the uniqueness of Anakin’s story.

I guess this is another symptom of the widespread “reevaluation” of the Prequels online over the past 10 years. But from my perspective, the whole virgin birth and “Chosen One” aspect of Anakin’s story was a completely stupid idea in the first place, so I really don’t care if some later story messes with it. Maybe the Acolyte writers will actually do something interesting with the concept, but I doubt it. The whole concept is just dumb.

Preach brother, I’ve been of the same opinion on that since TPM came out, and I was only 11 at the time haha. Turning the Jedi into a messianic state affiliated religion and making Anakin into the chosen one was easily one of the least interesting story choices in the prequels (at least how it was written), and ironically, it’s also almost entirely inconsequential to Anakin’s character development. The Osha/Mae thing doesn’t bother me at all, and frankly, anything that makes Anakin less special is IMO actually an improvement in the lore. But anyways, yeah, fingers crossed they do something interesting with it in this show.