I don’t know why but it occurred to me the other day how Ezra’s abilities and actions at the end of SWR proved Vader wrong. Besides, Vader was being a real a-hole saying something like that to a kid he was about to murder.
The thing that really strikes me is that when it came down to it, there’s a bit of sour grapes in that because Vader couldn’t be a Jedi. But Ezra could.
Like the Force-throwing and leaping and moving things with your mind, that’s just the cherry on top, the true test is whether you can control yourself, make yourself let go even when it’s crushing you. And Vader is and was better than Ezra on all accounts (except animal control), but he couldn’t do that, and Ezra could, and in the end that’s what really mattered.
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