![]() We wanted to complicate the meaning of that a little bit over the course of the season and not have such hard and fast concepts of good and evil. ![]() But the big one for me is that in a character like Elora, much like Luke Skywalker or Harry Potter, there is the potential for incredible good and incredible darkness. There's the promise of a lot of things in that final scene. There's something of Elora that is pure light, and it would've been really bad if he'd been able to suck that light out of her mouth. There's a great speech in Empire Strikes Back that I was just thinking about last night - that I'm sure my father wrote - which is that we're more than just this crude matter. It's in line with George Lucas' philosophical, quasi-religious stuff about the Force. But it's really helpful for us here in the series that there's something more at stake than simply, "Will she live or die?" There's something about her that is spirit. They've got to get her back to the castle. ![]() There was something about her spirit that needed to be either extinguished or transported or moved in some way that made killing her not a good option, which is convenient as a storytelling device for the movie. One of the things that the movie set up that is a helpful bit of storytelling is this idea that this baby, they couldn't just like chuck her out the window and kill her, and that would be the end of it. ![]()
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