Anakin Skywalker- The Anti-Luke

I totally agree with you @Bluestreaking

Even if I enjoyed (I still do) the prequels, it fails the most important aspects it had to cover.

- Anakin's transformation into Darth Vader
- Anakin's friendship with Obi Wan
- Why Luke and Leia were hidden.

I won't blame Jake Lloyd of Hayden for that, but George Lucas.



OT: Anakin was the best starpilot ever, a powerful Jedi, a pupil and a good friend to Obi Wan.

1 - Ok, Anakin was a great podracer, so was Shebulba. A pilot? We see glimpses of that in ROTS... but was he so extraordinary? Clonetroopers were fighting most of the space battles.
2 - A Powerful Jedi? Ok, he loses his first battle with Dooku like an amateur, Obi Wan never sees him defeat Dooku... And Anakin loses to Obi Wan in ROTS. The rest of the screen time together, Anakin is an ordinary Jedi with bad temper.
3 - Pupil to Obi Wan? Never quite established... We never properly see Obi Wan teaching Anakin, much more like lecturing him all the time.
4 - A good friend? Have you felt any friendship between Anakin and Obi Wan in th PT?

OT: Vader was seduced by the darkside of the Force.

1 - Obi Wan never actually questionned Anakin on why he was acting the way he did in ROTS.
2 - By slaughtering Sand People? It's a little weak no? Why did he turn against Mace Windu like that and jump in Palpatine's boat so easily when two scenes before, he sells him to the Jedi Council as being the Sith Lord they were looking for... a little weak. Why the darkside seduction, when Padme is still alive? It could have worked better if Padme was dead, and Anakin sells his soul to the devil to ressurect her. In any cases... it's a little weak and rushed... and Anakin's fall should have been spreaded over the course of the 3 movies... and driven by his choices, not his personality.

OT: Luke and Leia were hidden from Vader.

1 - Rushed in mere minutes scenes at the end of ROTS... no reason given why they hide them like that.
2 - Why Luke and Leia were seperated? They could both have been raised by Bail Organa.


Ect ect...

IMHO... The Prequels were set at the wrong period from Anakin's life. I still don't understand why The Phantom Menace is set with Anakin at such a young age. There is no point for the "council" to sense Anakin as dangerous. By doing it so, then why Obi Wan is talking about being "seduced" by the Darkside if it is something that you can sense very early and just discard youngling with Force sensitive aptitudes that could fall in the future.... Dooku was a Jedi Master and has become a Sith Lord.....Wasn't he on the Jedi Council?

By the time Revenge of the Sith came out, there was only a movie left to tie the trilogies, and that is why we are left with so many questions unanswered.

In an ideal PT, Anakin would have been very similar to Luke Skywalker... But making different choices at the end. On screen, they are, indeed, the opposite.

 

Driving a podracer is very difficult.
In fact, Anakin is the only Human, who can. Sebulba is no Human, he is a Dug.

Dooku has been a Jedi for decades. He is a strong enemy. In AOTC Obi-Wan can't beat him, too. He can't in ROTS either. While Anakin defeats Dooku. The reason why Obi-Wan defeats Anakin is because of experience. (Anakin is about 25 in ROTS)

10 years pass from TPM to AOTC.
It is not shown on screen, because it would be boring. Luke only gets a crash course.[/QUOTE]

Yes, I have. I felt a deep feeling of friendship and respect.

Anakin's turning IS throughout the hole PT. Remember in AOTC, when he says, he should me almighty? After the death of his mother. He turns to the dark side to save his wive, who he knows, WILL die. Seeing her death was not a dream, but a vision.

Who long do you want them to talk about it? The climax of the movie is over, the movie has to to end soon otherwise viewers will start to get bored.

They are seperated, because if one is discoverd the other has still a chance to survive. And also, who would expect twins?

If they are too similiar it's boring.
Of course Anakin gets easy in rage. He will become Vader after all.

I like Anakin more than Luke. He is the more interesting character.

 

He finally makes the choice of a true Jedi...

 

I really think there are really three Anakins, PT-wise.

Anakin Mk.1: AotC, CW: As grating as it is to watch this character, the fundamental issue with this portrayal is not his manchild antics. It is, as Jensaarai1 pointed out, that Anakin Skywalker is a psychopath.
This leads to whole slew major issues, not the least of which is the question of whether Anakin should be worthy of redemption. I do like the idea of the massacre in that it shows that Anakin had already taken a walk on the dark side before becoming Vader. It also fits well with how real psychotic criminals tend to build up to their most heinous acts. Still, thats the whole problem with this version; there's not really any "good in him" to begin with. The 'good' people saw was really just a sociopath working the systems of power. This Anakin is effectively the PG version of Patrick Bateman (American Psycho).

Anakin Mk.2: RotS: A significant improvement; Anakin is portrayed more as a man torn between two worlds. Very tolerable, but at the same time very dull; 'manakin skywalker'. I still see the manchild, but it's very suppressed... at least until he becomes Vader. I'll credit that to the rewrite. He's also still a sociopath, but far more subtle.

Anakin Mk.3: TCW: This one is, IMHO, the best of the three. It's a slightly darker, more brutal(both physically and verbally) version of Luke. Pretty much in line with what I thought It's not 'Anti-Luke' in terms of the common definition, but it is 'Anti-Luke' in terms of the "Other than" defenition of the prefix. The psycho is gone; he's human. Had this version been given to audiences in 2002.. Hayden would likely have had the career George promised him.

The most fustrating thing of all is that, in the end, his Anti-ness did not lead to his downfall. Now, to George's credit, I will acknowledge that how he originally wrote the second arc of RotS this stuff would have factored in because Anakin would have been the spawn of Palpatine. But by rewriting the second arc, Lucas rendered much of psycho-manchild stuff meaningless. Anakin now falls to the darkside in a desperate attempt to save Padme's life. Your generic hero could have done that.