star wars makes a lot more sense, sort of in the same way actual history makes a lot more sense, if you stop having modern expectations about it, like the reason people were possibly by and large floridly insane in the past maybe had something to do with the fact that you started working when you were six. categorically speaking a lot of the downright insane personal decisions you see made in the woes of history can come down to a lot of things but also a major one was all the childhood suffering. i slot star wars, especially the prequels, into the exact same brainspace, wherein when characters make really fucking batshit choices it's like, well, you know, space hasn't figured out child labor laws yet. stop asking why padme wanted to marry anakin, and start asking, "why the fuck did she have a job at ten, and why the fuck was that job Being A Monarch? what kind of feudal europe bullshit is this?" most things wrong with anakin are probably due to all of the childhood TBIs from the bloodsport chariot racing, which apparently started when he was the ripe old age of seven, and then also possibly all the other TBIs from the fact that he was, you know, a slave, and corporal punishment just happens. the fact that the TPM script describes nine year old anakin as "looking like he expects to get beaten" probably says bad things about how his brain's faring. in old legends when obi-wan was thirteen, qui-gon just let him go off to war. qui-gon in fact specifically left obi-wan alone to go be a child soldier by himself. the grandmaster of the jedi order was like, "ahsoka, this is. to war with you, take her. thirteen, she is," and that was a) routine and b) happening en masse. like maybe what space should learn from the Tragedy Of Anakin Skywalker is that if you insert too much job into your childhood you get really fucked up, like something in your brain just goes really, really bad.
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