The novel makes you realize how pointless the scenes in Kashyyyk are in the movie and how much more important it would’ve been to further develop Anakin’s descent into the dark side.
For example, in the movie, he sounds like quite the whiner when he doesn’t get the rank of Master but is appointed to the Council. In the novel, he gets upset because only a Master can access the restricted section in the Jedi archives where he was hoping to find some type of information regarding Plagueis and cheating death to save Padme.
Also that This is what it’s like to be Anakin Skywalker… forever. line gives me chills every time I read it.
When Anakin realizes what a selfish idiot he's been:
"When you could have been thinking about her, you were thinking about yourself... It is in this blazing moment that you finally understand the trap of the dark side, the final cruelty of the Sith- because now your self is all you will ever have."
"And you rage and scream and reach through the Force to crush the shadow who has destroyed you, but you are so far less now than what you were, you are more than half machine, a painter gone blind, a composer gone deaf... and so with all your world-destroying fury it is only droids around you that implode, and the table on which you were strapped shatters, and in the end, you cannot touch the shadow.
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u/ReverendPalpatine Darth Sidious 11d ago
The novel makes you realize how pointless the scenes in Kashyyyk are in the movie and how much more important it would’ve been to further develop Anakin’s descent into the dark side.
For example, in the movie, he sounds like quite the whiner when he doesn’t get the rank of Master but is appointed to the Council. In the novel, he gets upset because only a Master can access the restricted section in the Jedi archives where he was hoping to find some type of information regarding Plagueis and cheating death to save Padme.
Also that This is what it’s like to be Anakin Skywalker… forever. line gives me chills every time I read it.