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Mortis absolutely changed for me after Apocalypse.
Mortis left it ambiguous as to whether or not the Avatar's of the Force were Celestial's or whether the whole thing even happened at all and wasn't just a Force vision. As a Force vision that showed Anakin about how the Force has become unbalanced, and how he would ultimately turn to the Dark Side before being redeemed and bringing balance, it fit perfectly within the mythology that we knew about.
I assumed that the Avatars of the Force were meant to represent the aspects of the Force: The Father was the Unifying Force representing the balance, his children were the Living Force which is in conflict between the Dark Side and the Light Side.
Apocalypse made it clear that the Avatars were not manifestations of the Force but were Celestial's that somehow became part of the Force by drinking from the Font Of Power, which is evidently the spot from where the Force emerges into the universe. Um, what?
Plus the whole thing with Abeloth was tacked on in a way that was never even hinted at in the Mortis episodes, total retcon. The idea that it is somehow the will of the Force to create monsters to destroy the Galaxy while creating super heroes to battle them is really stupid and I can't see that as being at all consistent with the Force Philosophy we had gotten before.
It tried to be ambiguous about it by saying oh, this is just the Killiks version of events and might not be true.. but we know that Abeloth was on Mortis and that the Avatars exist in pretty much the same way as depicted in that version, so how can it not be true? If we are supposed to doubt that, then it becomes meaningless to even talk about in the first place.
It really undermines the whole idea of the Chosen One, which is stupid to the infinite since that was GL's thing and the whole point of putting Mortis is FOTJ was to reconcile TCW with the EU and instead it just makes them conflict even more.
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They have taken the hearts and minds of our leaders. They have recruited the rich and the powerful, and they have blinded us to the truth! Our human spirit is corrupted. Why do we worship greed? Because, outside the limit of our sight, feeding off us, perched on top of us from birth to death are OUR OWNERS. They have us! They control us! They are our masters! Wake up! They’re all about you, all around you!
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