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   In article   
   <4589eaae-bf48-4f44-b1a9-608f8484fc89@n38g2000prl.googlegroups.com>,   
    Duggy  wrote:   
      
   > On Sep 23, 5:51 am, Bill Steele  wrote:   
   > > In article   
   > > ,   
   > >   
   > >  Duggy  wrote:   
   > > > > I also think -- and this is purely my own opinion -- that the division   
   > > > > of the saga into three generation-units fits with the extensive   
   > > > > borrowing from the Arthurian saga,   
   > > > Borrowing from Arthur?  He used Campbell's Hero's Journey plot   
   > > > structure which fits many Arthurian legends, but there's very little   
   > > > specific borrowing from Arthur.   
   > > A young man unaware of his heritage gets a sword that belonged to his   
   > > father and uses it to overcome evil, helped by a mentor who dies but   
   > > returns in spirit...   
   >   
   > That's very general story stuff.  You could pull that out for anything   
   > and apply it to many other comparisons.   
   >   
   > Vader's lightsaber is just a lightsaber it isn't Excaliber or   
   > Sequence.   
   >   
   > His father isn't actually dead but rather is the evil.   
   >   
   > Mentors always "die" and "return", look at Gandoff.  It's part of the   
   > Campbell's Hero's Journey, as I've said before.   
   >   
   > > The part about Lancelot stealing his woman is implicit at the beginning,   
   > > but gets fudged out eventually.  (Try pronouncing "Lancelot" in French.)   
   >   
   > Huh?   
   >   
   > > > > which supports the idea that he had all nine in mind from the   
   beginning.   
   > > > Uther, Arthur and...?   
   > > Modred.   
   >   
   > Mordred doesn't get a unit.  He is part of Arthur's unit.  And there   
   > is if you're saying that it's Uther/Anakin and Arthur/Luke who is   
   > Mordred?   
   >   
   > Where does Luke's sister fit the Arthur template?  Where does Arthur's   
   > aunt fit into Star Wars?   
   >   
      
   I never said it was a perfect fit, just that it matches the   
   three-generation pattern of the story (I think the time it took Modred   
   to grow up counts as a generation). Obviously nobody is Modred, unless   
   they decide to make three more movies.   
      
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