Episode 13 of “The Lost Missions” is entitled “Sacrifice.” It’s directed by Steward Lee, written by Christian Taylor, and shows Yoda continuing his quest to the Sith homeworld. After who Mark Hamill is playing, the other elephant in the room is “Moriband,” the supposed Sith homeworld which looks exactly like the EU version, Korriban. The geometrically shaped pillars are the same, the dusty valleys are the same, the graves and their inhabitants are the same – perhaps it is even an older name for the same place, preserved by the Sages. The final fight is dark and surreal, with Darth Sidious manipulating Yoda’s reality. The inclusion of Anakin Skywalker both ups the stakes and makes the sequence more dreamlike, while Yoda’s final struggle against Darth Sidious is a powerful struggle of powers and principalities that is both excellent foreshadowing of and in some ways more personal than their fight in the senate rotunda in Revenge of the Sith. “Sacrifice” does leave fans with some questions. How did the Sages learn the technique of living beyond death? If they did indeed learn it and weren’t spirits for their whole lives, why don’t they look like blue ghosts? Is the idea of life-enabling midichlorians emanating from the Sages’ planet an evolutionary fact or a spiritual metaphor, or both? Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter for all news updates related to the world of geek. And Google+, if that’s your thing!
