SPECULATION ANAKIN vs DARTH - COUNTROL FOR THE SOUL

Why do I get the feeling that many are trying to compartmentalize Anakin's character? I find it very disturbing and a sign of poor writing. Have people been doing the same to Count Dooku for many years?

Regardless of his moral compass; regardless of his Sith title; and regardless of whether he was a slave boy, a Jedi padawan, a knight or a Sith Lord; Anakin Skywalker was always himself. This need to compartmentalize him strikes me as very unnecessary.

 

Anakin 'died' when Padme did. She was gone. So, he believed, were their children. Anakin's family meant the world to him.

His life was a terrible experience, and only his hatred kept him breathing. The part of him that was Anakin began to stir into life when he realised his son lived, which is why no matter what, he wouldn't - couldn't - kill him.

 

I chose the temple when he killed the younglings, because I believe Reva is an Ishtar figure, a goddess of transitions.

Spoiler

He stabbed her once in the temple at the beginning of his fall into darkness, and once at the start of the rise of the light

, the evening and morning star, Venus.

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The cycle of time, Tala, blew herself up, sacrificing for the light to start rising.

 

With arguably the exception of the third film, the Prequel films weren't written and directed - IMHO - as a dramatic character study. But I would argue that 'Darth Vader' was always inside Anakin Skywalker and viewers saw that side of him surface whenever he got REALLY ANGRY and upset (i.e. his Tuskin Raider slaughter). So once he learned the love of his life was dead and his body was permanently scarred and mutilated, his burning anger was the only thing he had left to motivate him.

 

The SWU needs some good therapists.

 

I think this is an awesome question. The fact that there's no right answer makes it even better.

I went with his defeat to Obi-Wan on Mustafar. I know his choice to be called Darth Vader and to join the Sith had been made earlier, and I know that we saw him kill the Seperatist leaders, and I know he already had the "Sith eyes;" but you could almost see each of those steps along the way as choices. You might even read ulterior motives into each of these choices. Once he was so badly wounded, he had to rely on his hatred and anger to keep himself alive. To me, that's a whole different level and the true transformational step.

 

This is a relatively new phenomenon. It's something that has gotten more popular as the Clone Wars came and went. Growing up, we all knew what Vader was. His legacy is of a monster, not some poor victim. Hell, he wasn't even beloved when the prequels came out. It's all Clone Wars diehards. The longer that show went on, the more he was "Anakin". Now it's morphed into this "two people" crap.

 

Huh. I see. And you're right. It's "two people" crap.

 

That's not your opinion, that's a fact.There was not much look into who he was as a person at all. I do thik there's something to Vader being who he was as a person. Outside of The Phantom Menace, he is not shown to be the best guy. He's creepy with Padme, a murderer (Sand People Incident), and thinks he is entitled to be treated like a leader/ruler.

 

Thanks, I'd like to believe all my opinions here are rock-solid facts, but I'm afraid 99% of the posters here think otherwise.

The big vibe I got from Hayden's Anakin when I rewatched the three PT films was not an evil or creepy person as much as a young man seriously immature for his age.

 

Murdering an entire group of people is more than immature.

 

His first dream of PADEME death.

 

Are you trying to tell me my opinions AREN'T all rock-solid facts afterall??!?

 

That's an opinion, not a fact. Not everyone would agree with this belief that "The Phantom Menace" and "Attack of the Clones" didn't include a character study of Anakin. I certainly don't.

 

You are correct. The PTs were indeed a character study of Anakin. The debate is over the perceived quality of that character study.

FWIW, I thought the OBW TV show did such a good job of depicting both Anakin Skywalker and Obi-wan Kenobi that it enhanced both characters from the PTs.