One PunditGuy concludes from Episode III that preisthood celibacy should be reinforced. This person also draws an analogy between Anakin’s concealment and homosexuality. That is.. extremely illogical. The only similarity is concealment. The virtue or vice of the matters being concealed is totally different. I don’t draw the conclusion that Anakin should abolish what he has to conceal, but that the pressure on him to conceal and dissociate.. that pressure is what should be abolished. This previous post of mine gives more towards that view.

I’m glad this other reviewer likes the film. At the same time I have major gripes with her review: she complains that Padme was marginalized and is no longer a “strong fighter”. Does this reviewer really expect that a pregnant woman would be out doing kung-fu and blasting baddies? A pregnant woman doesn’t make these apparenty important battles - most of them are stuck on their butt trying not to throw up every day for at least the first trimester, struggling to be anything other than immobile most of the time. This reviewer trivializes the task and value of childbirth: “..nothing to do really.. but pop out the twins”. Is that a small thing? But continuing the race is the greatest of things: without it, all plans are foiled. All plans should surround this. Two posts ago I speculate that attaching to those around you (Anakin’s marriage) is in fact what balances the force: the Jedi Order’s dissociation led to Anakin’s fall.

I will here point out that both of these reviewers apparently subscribe to values that in my opinion devalue the family. I object.