By Edward Copeland
Before Attack of the Clones had even opened, I jokingly suggested to a co-worker that what would set Anakin on the path to the Dark Side would be getting laid. Then this teaser poster appeared and seemed to confirm that my joke was in fact reality. Had marriage to Marcia Lucas and a relationship with Linda Ronstadt really turned out so badly for George Lucas that he decided that sex was as equal a character flaw for a Jedi as anger and hate? When you get down to it, should anger really do the trick? If Jedi Knights are to be the moral arbiters of the galaxy, don't they need to have a good dose of anger to be effective? Was their attitude supposed to be, "This Galactic Empire sucks and we must bring it down, but we're not really upset about it." Sounds more like current congressional Republicans than warriors for good. Still, I think it's the sex that really sets Anakin off, not his rage-filled attack on the sandpeople who killed his mother on Tatooine. Not only is the idea that love leads to the Dark Side slightly disturbing, could Lucas have been ripping off TV's Buffy the Vampire Slayer? (I doubt it, since Lucas worked on the second trilogy so far in advance, it couldn't have come afterward,
despite the chronology.) At least Angel had a curse placed on him that made true love his Achilles' heel. According to Jedi lore, love is one of the Knights' kryptonites. It also raises other questions: If Jedi don't have sex, where are other Jedi supposed to come from? Does this mean that Luke and Leia are "impure" Jedi possibilities because they inherited their midi-chlorians instead of just having them spontaneously appear in their systems? Further, since it seems clear that Han and Leia will eventually make the beast with two backs, is the Rebellion's major figure eventually going to become its destroyer?Tweet
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