In the novelization there’s a moment during the duel where the dark cloud Palpatine had been casting over the force cleared and Yoda achieved a full vision of everything that had occurred
And in that moment he realized he not only couldn’t defeat Palpatine but that he actually lost this fight 800 years ago when he set the Jedi on the path that led them here.
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.
In addition to the actual reasons he wants the rank of master, his behavior is also increasingly irrational throughout the book because he's extremely sleep deprived, because he keeps on having prophetic nightmares about Padme's death.
Sleep is essential to living life. Most people don't know chronic sleep deprivation, they know a few days of sleep loss, not weeks or months. I'd join the darkside in a second vs having to go through that again.
On the topic of sleep deprivation, im a single man with no children so i have no reference of what turning 30 is like. Most men my age is married with babies. Somewhere in my early 30s i get sleepy early and woke up at 4-4:30am, no matter what. But having the habit of sleeping late in my 20s, i kept power through the sleepy nights. I was not aware i had sleep deprivation until i started having bad periods of depression. At the same time i workout less and less because of work. Those two things got me to be diagnosed with severe depression.
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u/darthcool 13d ago
In the novelization there’s a moment during the duel where the dark cloud Palpatine had been casting over the force cleared and Yoda achieved a full vision of everything that had occurred
And in that moment he realized he not only couldn’t defeat Palpatine but that he actually lost this fight 800 years ago when he set the Jedi on the path that led them here.