03:32Keeping with that impressionable Skywalker now, and to a beat that would cheekily call back to one of the original trilogy's defining moments,
03:40whilst also technically acting as a piece of clever foreshadowing too.
03:43The advantages of telling your story back to front A.
03:46Tasked with rescuing Supreme Chancellor Palpatine from the Separatists in Revenge of the Sith's opening sequence,
03:52Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi are gifted a rematch with Count Dooku aboard an enemy vessel.
03:57With the captive Palpatine watching on, Kenobi is sidelined early,
04:01leaving only the future Darth Vader to contend with another fallen Jedi.
04:05Brilliantly lining up with another all-important duel featuring the Chosen One,
04:08only this time opposite his own damn son in Return of the Jedi,
04:12a seated Darth Sidious enjoys witnessing Anakin's inner turmoil before he finally forces him to give in to anger and dispatch Dooku.
04:20In other words, to do it.
04:22Yet while Skywalker Sr. opts to lash out, Luke notably passes up the opportunity to strike his own father down in that original trilogy closer,
04:30highlighting the vital differences between the two generations of Skywalker.
04:335. R2-D2's Trust Issues
04:37In another instance of being able to add further glorious detail into seemingly insignificant occurrences that go down in the much-adored original trilogy,
04:45George Lucas' prequels may have actually provided us with the answer as to why a certain little droid felt the need to be so damn defiant.
04:52While admittedly making him one of the most adored rascals in the galaxy,
04:55R2-D2's penchant for disobeying orders,
04:58specifically giving a robotic middle finger to the idea of staying with the ship,
05:02was largely overlooked in those earlier entries.
05:04However, by the time Revenge of the Sith came around in 2005,
05:08a seriously heartbreaking revelation equipped fans with a possible reason for his apparent trust issues.
05:14As it goes, the last time R2 obeyed a command of this ilk,
05:17came minutes before Anakin Skywalker wandered into a mining facility on Mustafar,
05:21and the rest is agonizing history.
05:23It's not the fact that Skywalker never returned to the droid's side and ultimately sealed his unsettling fate upon leaving R2 with the ship,
05:32but he's attempting to stray too far away from his current master's side ever again.
05:374. Darth Vader Notes Luke's Fondness of the High Ground
05:40Still alluding to the fact that his decision to take the high ground is being celebrated to this day,
05:45Ewan McGregor's Obi-Wan Kenobi uttered a now-legendary line that was actually surprisingly set up a solid two decades earlier.
05:52As Vader puts it when Luke is safely out of reach, up high in the midst of their climactic Return of the Jedi duel,
05:58Obi-Wan has taught you well.
06:00In other words, he taught you that my greatest weakness is attempting to flip over my opponent
06:04before getting my limbs sliced to pieces, the clever old space wizard.
06:07Not being in a rush to repeat that fateful Revenge of the Sith mistake, though,
06:11Vader resists the urge to do a flip and instead settles for simply having his hand chopped off once again.
06:15Charming.
06:173. There's Always a Bigger Fish is More Than a Cool One-Liner
06:20Providing a great many important soundbites over the course of his all-too-brief live-action stint
06:25as part of the Skywalker saga, Qui-Gon Jinn's introducing of midichlorians
06:29and wish to see Anakin Skywalker trained by his padawan Obi-Wan
06:33are just a few of the hugely significant words uttered by the opinionated Jedi Master.
06:37Yet arguably his most underappreciated line of dialogue over the course of The Phantom Menace
06:42undoubtedly comes in the form of a witty one-liner that initially feels like little more
06:46than a way to alleviate the underwater tension.
06:48In the midst of a perilous submerged game of cat and mouse, Qui-Gon hilariously quips
06:53There's Always a Bigger Fish.
06:54While definitely true for their specific situation, the same line of thinking can very much be applied
06:59to the overall Jedi-Sith war that is once again on the verge of erupting at the time of the flick.
07:04From Anakin seemingly being the chosen one before his son appears to take up the mantle and so on,
07:09to Darth Maul merely acting as the first of many increasingly difficult dark side hurdles
07:13our heroes will be forced to leap over throughout the coming trilogies.
07:17There is, indeed, Always a Bigger Fish.
07:202. Anakin Skywalker's Words Come Back to Haunt the Jedi
07:23Discovering the future biggest bad in the galaxy in much more innocent surroundings,
07:28a naive piece of dialogue sent the direction of Qui-Gon Jinn by a young Anakin Skywalker
07:32could just be the most disturbing piece of foreshadowing the series has ever known.
07:36As Annie puts it, upon figuring out that the mysterious presence before him is none other
07:41than a Jedi Knight, no one can kill a Jedi.
07:44Unfortunately for the Jedi Master in question, that most definitely would not turn out to be
07:48the case by the end of that very same first episode.
07:51But the much more sickening events that would go down two films on from this sweet supper
07:55add even more dramatic and tragic weight to the lad's ignorant Phantom Menace claim.
08:00Sure enough, Anakin would prove that you very much can kill a Jedi,
08:03absolutely massacring the Jedi Temple on Coruscant,
08:06including a group of younglings not much older than he was around the time he first alluded
08:10to a Jedi's invincibility.
08:12Kids say the craziest things, am I right?
08:151. The Clone's Direction Suggests a Dark Future
08:18As seen in everything from Avengers Endgame's long-awaited assembling of Earth's mightiest heroes,
08:24to the Lord of the Rings' many charges into battle,
08:26it's pretty much an unwritten law of filmmaking that your heroes must sprint against the enemy
08:30from the left of the screen to the right.
08:32And that's precisely what made George Lucas' first unleashing of his titular army on the Separatists
08:37in Episode 2, Attack of the Clones, such an ingenious turn of events.
08:41Instead of having his apparent hero infantry arriving to bail out the Jedi during their climactic skirmish
08:46on Geonosis, storm to the rescue using that aforementioned means of travel,
08:50the mind behind the galaxy opted to have his clones wander on in the opposite direction.
08:55Right there and then, fans were given yet another tease of what was undoubtedly set to come,
08:59as, along with the aforementioned Trade Federation march being used to signal their debut,
09:04Lucas' endgame of having the army forged on Kamino play a painful part in the Republic's downfall
09:09was already being brought into existence under our very noses via direction of attack.
09:14And that's our list of any other moments of Star Wars foreshadowing people never noticed.
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