Final Thoughts

I want to thank everyone for their imput helping me along here (even those that weren't as positive as the others). Again, I want to urge everyone reading this (and hopefully I'll be able to get all the chapter titles matching the names again after 12-18-05's disasterous editing. At least I got the order straightened out. I wrote this in a way to protest the current direction of the PT , EU's and the latest tampering with the original OT in which the original message of heroic goodness and faith redeeming the jaded have (as far as it seems to me) have been supplanted by the cynical message of evil coming back again and again with good only having occasional, accidental and temporary victories- and evil being cool and glamorous while good is tepid and lifeless. I think that's aterrible direction and NOT why Iwatched the original series ! I know that Lucas, the EUs legally can do whatever they want to the characters but that doesn't mean that I can't create my own non-profit renditionsof whatI believe are closer to what the original, timeless message that most good mythologies are based upon. Anyway, enough soap-boxing on my part and now the part the faithful have been waiting for- the kudos!

Angel Sanada- Glad you loved the ending! I pondered what it would be like if an immortal worshipped the memory of mortal loved ones as a means to guide their lives via examples.

Miss Naye- Yep, it only took 10,500 years or so for Anakin to age and die a natural death (if you want to call being taken up into the sky and being rendered into light natural). Happy you thought this was an interesting tale!

Storyteller Person- Glad you loved the whole story and I know it's sad it's over but surely you wouldn't have wanted to have covered ALL the adventures of Anakin's OTHER 9,000 years or so. Who can spare the centuries to read through that? LOL

swspacecadet- I hope the crying like a baby was a good cry for you and I'm glad you appreciated it when he got to rejoin his loved ones (and had lived to treasure them AS loved ones). Yeah, considering that Qui-Gonn was the only tall, blond Jedi of the right age, I thought him unknowingly being Anakin's father might be worth considering (and neither Palpatine or Dooku looked anything AT ALL like Anakin so that's a strike against that possibility). I'm glad you also had considered the theory and were pleasantly surprised at the end.

I'm glad you so moved by Luke's death from old age in that chapter and that you consider that part something worth staying with you. I wanted to show that the circle was somewhat complete with the irony of Luke having been able to save Anakin by re-awakening him to his REAL powers but not being able to be with him physically for very long due to his own mortality,

Glad you liked the tapestry I wove and you take good care and May God Bless you and your loved ones during these times!- Ennon