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It’s all over now. If you made a Chuck Norris or joke today, you would be directed to a poster’s retirement home — if not a incineration chamber. And yet, “It’s over, Anakin, I have the high ground!” has had as much as Star Wars itself.

First bellowed by Ewan McGregor in nearly 20 years ago we continue to , justify it , and, of course, “10 Hilarious High Ground Memes.” That the line became an is understandable. It’s full of clunky dialogue that seemingly rewrites the rules of lightsaber combat at a crucial moment.



Obi-Wan, after all, once overcame Darth Maul’s high ground to bisect the grumpy Zabrak in rather dramatic fashion. The first two prequels were lambasted for their talk of sand and love, so getting slammed for an anticlimactic finale felt like a natural conclusion to the underwhelming trilogy. Lava.

It gets everywhere. But if you can forget decades of mockery, Obi-Wan’s impassioned plea can be appreciated as grand climax to George Lucas’ operatic vision. Lucas had been building towards Anakin Skywalker’s tragic downfall since he .

$113 million budget was titanic compared to the cost of . Few filmmakers are given the control he enjoyed for the prequels, and Lucas used it to tell a story that was unabashedly his. And so the ludicrous, fiery scope of Anakin’s with Obi-Wan is fun despite — or perhaps because of — this infamous line.

Their conversation is full of grand statements about power and democracy. Hayden Christensen starts at forti.

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