I’m gonna repost this one bit so it doesn’t get hidden behind the spoiler warning, because if there’s one thought I hope you’ll mull over from this, its this:
“We want to view Star Wars as a cycle— to quote another sci-fi property, “This has happened before and it will happen again”— but the truth is that the course of causality runs backwards. The present never echoes the events of the past; instead the past is shaped by the future it has to lead into. There is no talking about Star Wars without talking about all of Star Wars, because all of Star Wars has to have happened, past and future, before we could arrive at whatever moment we are in the present.”
