People are waaaaaaay too scared to be wrong when theorizing about fiction.
Embrace the possibility of being wrong! No one is better than anyone for predicting things correctly and no one is worse for being incorrect, just go for it, that’s part of the fun!
Water is the Jungian symbol for the unconscious, now the anxiety of failed fatherhood is explicit -conscious- on the Geonosis frame.
Did I mention how much I hate character limit?
Decapitation in Star Wars 1-6 is played as a droid's death - particularly humiliating for humans. When used on humans, its because somebody hasn't thought things out properly. It evolved after Ep 5 by granting both the victim and the attacker this mental lapse.
If for some reason anybody still thinks this is a stretch, here is George Lucas on The Empire Strikes Back DVD commentary, explaining the moment at the end of the movie when Vader realizes Luke has rejected him and escaped his control:
"He's too upset to even bother with killing his subordinates, because we're talking about his son now. So he's conflicted. It's not just hate anymore. There's more to it than that. He's Threepio disassembled."
C-3PO's entire ordeal in The Empire Strikes Back is a metaphor for what happens to Darth Vader (and to Luke) in the film. So if C-3PO's physical disassembly and reassembly is a metaphor for Darth Vader's emotional disassembly and reassembly, wouldn't it actually be quite odd if it *didn't* occur to Lucas that C-3PO's *original* assembly *by* Darth Vader might be a golden (!) opportunity for another symbolic connection?
It also explains the emotion behind this frame. Kenobi has just discovered someone who is a more successful unconventional father than him. Kenobi is unconsciously bothered by this as telegraphed by rain; by the water.
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Patreon request: Because Ghost in the Shell is getting a new anime, the Major and Alita working in a maid cafe.
It seems that we all agree... it's time to go back.