NOT THAT WE CAN TRUST ANYTHING THAT VADER SEES ANYWHERE IN THIS COMIC, because there are some things

NOT THAT WE CAN TRUST ANYTHING THAT VADER SEES ANYWHERE IN THIS COMIC, because there are some things we know are impossible (Yoda being there with the other Jedi, Obi-Wan fighting Palpatine) and this is outside of the flaming circles, which is where we see the most unreliable events that are more about Anakin’s themes and fears and the way he sees things, than they are about truth.Later in the issue, when Palpatine and Obi-Wan are standing at the top of the stairs to wait for him, there’s the echo of, “I am your father.”, which is the phrasing Vader used with Luke, that’s the echo he’s hearing in this place, but it’s said over Obi-Wan and Palpatine watching him.  It’s in the same issue where Palpatine is hovering over a pregnant Shmi, the red swirling around her belly, where baby!Anakin is growing, “the chosen one” written over it.It’s very obviously a nod to the original idea that Palpatine and Plagueis manipulated the midicholorians to bring Anakin about that was in the original rough draft of George Lucas’ script.  It was also picked up by the Darth Plagueis novel later as well, of course, but it started with the original rough draft from George and this is a comic that has made nods to other Legends materials–I keep thinking of these panels that I can very easily see being a nod in that direction.It’s also wrapped up in how Anakin says to Obi-Wan, “You’re the closest thing I have to a father.”, which I also tend to see as something that’s wrapped up in Palpatine’s manipulations of Anakin.If nothing else, this vision being outside of the flaming circles shows that it’s about how Anakin sees himself, in a comic that’s dedicated to being all about Anakin’s warped sense of himself and unreliable narrative even within his own head.  Ninth Sister points out that he doesn’t know himself at all.  “What do you want, boy?” Jocasta Nu asks him, and he has no real answer.  It’s the entire string of various Jedi he crosses paths with that show all these other choices he could have made, but he refuses to accept that anything else could have happened or could still happen.  Darth Momin says that he still believes he’s the Chosen One.  Whether that’s accurate or not (because Darth Momin is ultimately full of shit, just like all dark siders are), it certainly plays on how Anakin always viewed himself as special, as different, as more than everyone else.He looks at this vision of Shmi and sees that he was born to be the Chosen One, to be special, that he was destined to fall to the dark side (”the dark side always wins”), that started even before he’d properly taken his first breath, before he’d seen the world with his own eyes for the first time.Does it mean that Palpatine and Plagueis manipulated the midi-chlorians to bring forth the Chosen One?  Maybe.  Or maybe he just sees it as the Force and Destiny drawing them all together.  Nothing in this issue is entirely reliable and it’s not clear how much this is the Force trying to tell him something versus what he believes about himself, in a series that’s entirely dedicated to Anakin Skywalker being unable to admit to things. -- source link

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