06/08/2024
๐ฆ๐ง๐๐ฅ ๐ช๐๐ฅ๐ฆ ๐๐ฒ๐ฒ๐บ๐ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ฎ๐บ๐ฒ, ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ป ๐ถ๐'๐ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐๐๐ฎ๐น๐น๐ ๐ฎ๐น๐๐ฎ๐๐ ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ณ๐ณ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ป๐.
โญ The human journey to maturity often has the same guideposts, but the choices of each person always alter the general path with fresh possibilities.
Humans may be the same, but individuals are unique.
โญ This is the generational handoff pattern that repeats throughout all of human history.
STAR WARS reflects this perennial spiritual journey pattern across three generations: Anakin, Luke/Leia, Rey. Parents, children, grandchild.
A trilogy for each, cascading into a larger Trilogy of trilogies.
โญ Act 1 of a play introduces the characters and settings,
Act 2 advances the situation with complexity needing resolution,
Act 3 merges both together into an ultimate climax.
The three chapters of each SW trilogy mirror this pattern.
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๐ญ) ๐๐ฐ๐ท๐ช๐ค๐ฆ: Everyone starts the same, a beginner learning about the larger.
Because of this, the first chapters of each trilogy are deliberately similar: hence Episodes 1, 4, and 7 consciously have the same story structure (desert loner, wider struggle, explosive culmination).
This is on purpose for the sake of contrast; the importance lies is noticing the differences within each intro chapter instead of just the surface similarities to each other.
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๐ฎ) ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต: The general life path repeats but then each individual varies it.
Because of this, the second chapters of each trilogy hinge into variant directions: hence Episodes 2, 5, and 8 advance to differing possibilities based on the lead's spiritual choices.
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๐ฏ) ๐๐น๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ต: Experience leads to self-knowledge and fruition.
Because of this, the climactic third chapters are about the ultimate culmination of oneโs choices: hence Episodes 3, 6, and 9 each hit crescendo with how Anakin or Luke or Rey chose.
โญ If the chapters of each trilogy follow the three-act play progression, then each trilogy is also a chapter in a total Trilogy.
The first trilogy is Betrayal,
the second trilogy is Redemption,
the third trilogy is Transcendence.
โญ The total Trilogy is about how two bloodlines cause the most epochal crux point in this galaxiesโ entire history.
(e.g.; there are many battles for liberation in human history, but none of them are the apocalyptic World War II.)
This is why โthe Skywalker sagaโ matters most out of all stories, and every other SW story is a prelude, parallel, or epilogue to it.
It is the trunk for which all else is a seed or branch.
1, 2, 3.
May diverse be within you.
ยฉ Tym Stevens, 2024.
