My favorite part of today was telling everyone on the Not Another Race Panel about the origin story of how Anakin Skywalker came to exist, which was hidden in half a sentence in a block of exposition in the Star Wars book "Darth Plagueis" which WAS canon.

https://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Darth-Plagueis-Legends/dp/0345511298/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&linkCode=ll1&tag=thedivapage&linkId=9952ec00bbfeb420e10a396753b870bd&language=en_US">https://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars...

Remember how Anakin& #39;s mother was like: I became spontaneously pregnant, there was no man.

?

Welp, Anakin didn& #39;t "just" pop into existence. Shmi got pregnant when Darth Plagueis and Darth Sidious were experimenting with the Force and they did it accidentally. yes, I& #39;m serious.

Only during the events of The Phantom Menace does Sidious/Palpatine realize that Anakin exists and that he must have been the result of their experimenting. Why didn& #39;t he and Plagueis know about him?

Reasons.

That, I believe, is the official answer.

So Anakin was not Jesus, he was created by Sith Lords exploring the boundaries of the dark side of the Force & messing around in a lab while simultaneously attempting to conquer the galaxy through the manipulation of trade routes.

That& #39;s some Joseph Campbell shit right there.