Comparing the rancor Jabba had to the ones seen on Dathomir in The Courtship of Princess Leia, you can also see that Jabba's is just a child."Life would be a lonely proposition for him from that day."
Even the 1983 RotJ novelization points out that the rancor is just as much a victim of Jabba's cruelty as the people it eats. That last part is made even worse by the reveal in a short story that Jabba had the rancor fight dangerous creatures for sport, and he was planning to have it fight a Krayt Dragon which would have destroyed it without effort. Death was a mercy for its existence of being used as an executioner and gladiator beast. He is remorseful that he had to kill it, believing them to be beautiful creatures (he also said something similar in the Young Jedi Knights series), but he states that Jabba's rancor had been so mistreated and abused that it couldn't have been helped by anyone. Actually expanded on in Backlash: Luke watches some Rancors in the wild and remembers Jabba's. Such differences in attitudes towards the rancor echo those towards real-life pets, such as between someone who was attacked by a dog and the owner of said dog. One could go further than that to Luke, the rancor was a dangerous creature who needed to be killed to the rancor keeper, it was a pet. Tales from Jabba's Palace reveals that he was planning to escape with his pet for a more peaceful life, but then this Jedi showed up. One that caught the filmmakers completely off guard: Malakili, Jabba's rancor keeper, weeping after its death, just like any other pet owner in the situation. Even worse in that this rancor was horribly abused in Jabba's care and that they're not normally killing machines and that its owner was actively trying to escape with it. The rancor's owner sobbing because his pet has just been killed. The backstory revealed in the prequels drives it home deeper as Anakin turned to the Dark Side chasing the promise of power only to end up a slave once more. The scene as a whole transforms Vader from a fearsome evil overlord into a much more tragic figure with the implication that he is aware of how he's ruined his life but feels he cannot undo it. While before Vader had attempted to lure Luke to the Dark Side with the promise of great power, he's now saying for the first time that the Dark Side has shackled him into servitude. Shortly before that, he insists that Luke doesn't understand the power of the Dark Side and that he must obey his master. "It is too late for me, son." He truly believes he does not deserve redemption. Vader's words when Luke tries to convince him to join the Rebels and give up the Dark Side. My pride has had disastrous consequences for the galaxy." "I thought I could instruct just as well as Yoda I was wrong. Taken a step further in the novelization: Obi-wan makes it clear he considers what happened to Vader to be his (Obi-wan's) fault, and his Metaphorically True interpretation of the Anakin/Vader dichotomy is simply a means to assuage his own guilt. When Luke is angry that Obi-Wan lied about what happened to his father, Obi-Wan calmly but soberly says that he was telling the truth 'from a certain point of view' - and from his point of view, his good friend Anakin is dead and Darth Vader took the place of the man he murdered. Yoda: No! Unfortunate that you rushed to face him! That incomplete was your training! That. Luke: (angrily) Unfortunate that I know the truth? 
Yoda: Told you, did he? Unexpected this is.
0 kommentar(er)
