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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wayside" data-source="post: 2278973" data-attributes="member: 8394">Then you ought to understand the difference between your perspective, audience perspective in general that is, and truth. Part of the way narrative works is by manipulating your beliefs, but no narrative can control itself or you completely, so unintended beliefs always emerge, and if you're being a medieval reader and trying to reduce the text to complete consistency by filling in its gaps with questionable added material, I'd say that, yes, it is potentially a crime, a crime against and violation of the text, in this case RotS. If there's any moral we should take away from Star Wars, it's about the conflict between different points of view. "Contextual interpretation" is nebulous to the point of being nearly meaningless, since you, the viewer, and your point of view, are the source of all contexts.Shmi's story is far from the equivalent of "because." As I said in another thread, Anakin's birth is a motif you can find in any number of mythologies, and at its base it's simply an expression of the possibility of a divine birth ex nihil in human terms. Most mythologies contain a kind of uncreated god, an unmoved mover who is a cause without being caused; when a divine savior is posited, the archetype of the spontaneous birth is applied, just like it would be to a creator god, as a way of representing the power of his absolute autonomy. Anakin's being spontaneously conceived is absolutely consistent with Lucas' mythological interests. In pursuing the possible contexts of the plots of the films, you're trying awfully hard to ignore the definite contexts of their production.</blockquote>

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