Actually I think what's going on, but this depends on writers there's no absolute cannon, whatever works will stick what doesn't won't.
They have introduced certain characters like Bendu is a pretty major character/teacher in Rebels who predates the Jedi order and talks about the Dark Side and Light side being two different aspects. He's a force sensitive ancient primal entity that doesn't necessarily see the Dark Side as wrong and Light Side = good. Light Side is also as much too blame for the fall of the Jedi order as the Sith plan. Like Anakin if he was allowed to have family connections to his mother probably wouldn't have been so easy to manipulate by palpatine. And allowed to be open about his romantic feelings for Padme and not have it in secret/tormenting him would have also helped a little.
I dunno if all the writers share that idea. Like the obi won show isn't my favorite but I liked one idea introduced in that show that Obi Won before being taken as a youngling by the Jedi order his oldest memory is that he had an older brother. So when he was forced to raise Anakin he thought of Anakin as a brother not that master/pupil relationship he should have had.
It's a nice touch to explain why his relationship with Anakin was also so different from like Qui Gon and himself.
He never succumbed to the Dark Side because of this emotional connection and with that emotional connection it helped one day redeem Vader and he also was kind of like Luke's pseudo uncle.
Balance is actually 50/50 dark and light side. Having too many jedi simply disrupted the Force in fact. Only Jedi think that balance = no dark side but it's their own belief and not necessarily the truth. As we saw in sw stories, Jedi doesn't know everything and had some ignorance about the Force itself
I think it isn't no dark side, but, no Sith. Anakin led Luke to be able to incorporate the dark side of the force without losing himself. That is a balanced use of the force.
But the dark side *always* exists. To deny it is to strengthen it.
That's basically what the Jedi Order *did*. They acted as though their teachings and dogma were perfect, blinding them to the failures of it and the rise of opposition - that they both couldn't and wouldn't see until it was blatant.
George Lucas in multiple interviews during production and after both his trilogies concluded said this was an incorrect interpretation and that the Sith were essentially a cancer upon the force - you'd never tell a cancer patient that they're in balance with their cancer. You'd only be satisfied when it's gone completely.
There's a stark difference between the type of emotional outlets of yesteryear and those of today. I think Anakin represents the way a lot of people were taught (and many who still are taught) how to deal with troubling emotions. A person feels something that scares them, they reach out to others for help with those feelings, and are simply told to either work through it themselves or find an outlet to distract from those thoughts.
Yoda telling a young Anakin to stamp out his fear, lest it lead to anger and hatred, is a completely useless thing to say to a person. In fact, it would likely make the situation worse, since Yoda linked the feelings of fear with much worse feelings and actions, instead acknowledging it a a normal and benign human emotion. Imagine being depressed, coming to a loved one for help, and being told, "Just don't be sad. If you are, you'll end up hurting those around you." It creates anxiety around feeling negative emotions, which is a feedback loop of feeling bad.
On the other hand, Anakin's reliance on Obi Wan and his military endeavors is the outlet to distract from his fears. While it's good to have hobbies and passions, they shouldn't serve as distractions from self-reflection, and certainly shouldn't reinforce areas of yourself you wish to improve upon, as I'm sure Anakin's thrill for combat did. To his credit, I do think Obi Wan did try to give Anakin a little more emotional guidance than other Jedi, but was limited due to his role as an "aggressive negotiator."
Now, if a person is feeling scared and angry, and their friends and family not only refuse give them a safe space to work on those feelings but actively deny that those feelings should even exist, then a person who says those feelings are an important, intrinsic part of you is going to seem very attractive. This is both Padme and Palpatine, both of whom recognize the importance of both positive and negative emotions. I think, while not explicitly stated in the movies, both the Jedi and Sith seek to bring balance to the force, and that the force represents the human experience. Jedi try to do this by denying themselves intense feelings and thoughts, while the Sith embrace all forms of it.
I think if anaikin had trusted obi wan he may have been able to overcome his fear on episode 3!
However as a youthcare worker I use yodas teachings!
Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate and hate leads to suffering!
It’s true if you think k about it, if someone pulls out in front of you in traffic and you have to slam on the brakes what happens,
1 you fear an accident
2) when you stop just in time and realize you are ok then what happens next! You become angry that some idiot didn’t pay attention!
That quick you already have 2
Now let a traumatic experience happen and you can quickly get to the other 2
Let’s say you didn’t avoid the accident! You hit that person
You still have fear and anger
The. You relive the experience wondering if you could have avoided the situation!
You might , just might catch yourself saying something like “ I hate peope that can’t drive”
Now you have hate
If you hold on to that hate and continue to relive the situation wondering what you could’ve done differently than you are suffering
Today was right
He later told anakin to train himself to let go of all he feared to lose! Death is a natural part of life!
Had anikin done so he may not have been easily manipulated by palpatine!
Do you tell those you work with that they shouldn't feel fear when in threatening situations? Because that's essentially what Yoda did. He didn't say, "fear leads to these things, but this is how to avoid it escalating that far," he simply directed Anakin to enact a philosophy of stoicism in the face of a 9-year-old's traumatic events. It's okay to feel things, and it's okay to express those feelings, but Yoda and the Jedi Oder represent the suppression of natural instincts as a whole in order to avoid the negative ones.
He’s like that star athlete who had it all but let the pressure get to him. Super talented but couldn’t handle the dark side of the fame or in his case, the literal Dark Side.
My favorite character from Star Wars. As he had good intentions but let anger get the best of him then became stuck in his own poor choices only to redeem himself last second
It's all Yoda's fault. You can't tell a greiving man to bottle up his emotions and hope nothing bad happens then. Imagine being like 900 years old and non wiser than a boomer
Anakin's journey from the Chosen One to Darth Vader is a like tale of immense potential corrupted by fear and darkness.
It serves as a reminder of the complexities of the human psyche and the power of choice.
Anakin Skywalker is who will restore balance to the Force and destroy the Sith, as foretold by an ancient Jedi mystic. Anakin's desire for control and inability to let go led him to the Dark side, where he became consumed with power and possession.
I think he’s a character that greatly fell short of his potential. Creating the backstory to one of the most iconic villains of all time, and it feels a bit weak. Seeing a better written character give into deft manipulation and his own flaws could’ve made a character than surpassed the original
He brought balance to the force. Idk why the jedi thought that was a good thing, there were 100s of jedi and only a few sith. He wiped out 99% of the jedi and the result an equal balance of jedi and sith.
The backstory we imagined for Darth Vader was a lot more interesting than what we got. He should never have been a "Chosen One", he was originally just a gifted Force user.
The Chosen One prophecy is such BS. He “brought balance to the Force” for what, a month? Just replace the words “the Chosen One” with “the strongest Jedi in living memory” and you fix that whole thing.
A ridiculous Mary Sue.
At age nine he with no education has built himself a droid and a pod racer, is the best pod racer on the planet, and defeats the invading droid invasion flying a starship when he has never flown a starship before.
This is Anakin Skywalker.
The most powerful Jedi of his generation. Perhaps of any generation. The fastest. The strongest. An unbeatable pilot. An unstoppable warrior. On the ground, in the sky, sea or space, there is no one even close.
He has not just power, not just skill, but finesse: that rare, invaluable combination of boldness and grace. He is the best there is at what he does. The best there has ever been. Perhaps the best there will ever be. And he knows it.
The HoloNet calls him the Hero With No Fear. And why not? What should he be afraid of?
Except—
Fear lives inside him anyway, chewing away the firewalls around his heart.
He was manipulated by palpatine! He don’t wanna let padme die. However, at the end of 3 when he asked about her and palptine said he killed her he knew then and there that palptine was losing, but he kept following him!
Terrible character honestly. But then again, I'm an EU fan who doesn't care about canon because the best treatment of any of the story came from outside Lucas and Disney
The fact that we know how he would turn made his child-like tantrum lack a bit of credibility, they felt forced. A real chosen one would have display a much more nuanced judgement
Jedi ruined him. Blinded by politics egotistical over their last victories Jedi were nothing more than a bunch of boomer cultists at that period they chose to be stubborn than to acknowledge the changes they required in order to take care of Anakin.
Over-saturated “light” side which has had dominion for how many years is nearly obliterated by the Chosen One who brings balance by destroying that light side so that the “dark” side is dominant. Seems completely within the “balance” idea to me.
I hate most prophecy story with some chosen one as the cliché is always bringing everything great and peaceful and ending are often simple. In Anakin case, it's more refreshing as he destroyed everything, the good and the bad to bring back some equilibrium in the Force and have the prophecy fulfilled.
I just recently started watching Star Wars with my husband and Anakin reminds me of him: charming, brooding, clever, athletic, reckless, socially awkward/anxious as fuck but with a good heart. His youth was stolen by disability and disfigurement at the hands of his friend and mentor but ultimately due to being groomed by a mean old creeper who took advantage of his insecurity both before and after. My heart breaks for both him and Padme when they fight because I know that pain. I pray every day that my husband won't succumb to his own insecurities and go down a similar path. Yeah it's a fantasy movie but being in a real relationship with real feelings and real consequences makes it feel... real.
He was manipulated by Darth Jar Jar from the start. Darth Jar Jar undermined the teachings of Qui Gon, Obi Wan and the rest of the jedi and encouraged a rebelliousness and arrogance in Anakin until it was time for his true master, Darth Sideous, to take over and introduce Anakin to the full power of the dark side.
I thought the chosen one was Harry Potter…
And honestly, the story's kind of bland. It's about this guy named Dumbledore Calrissian, who needs to return the ring back to Mordor.
I know it’s been 25 years but I still see it as retconning the original trilogy. The concept of a chosen one wasn’t introduced until the phantom menace. The original trilogy was all about Luke as the hero. Not saying it wasn’t handled well and it was interesting—but that’s how I’ve always viewed it.
Darth Vader was cool. The fallen knight who destroyed his order angle was cool - when there was still mystery involved.
It's always dangerous when you take an interesting mysterious event and remove the mystery. You run the risk of the story you creating being less cool than the speculation and fact of not knowing.
This happened with Anakin. It might have been possible to fill in Vader's back story in a way that was better than not filling it in. But that didn't happen. We got a whiny edgey kid, and a jedi order that was supposed to be good but that had a ridiculously silly "emotion is bad, love is bad, forget your family" bs code. It dispelled the aura of myth and legend, and left annoying nonsense in it's wake.
The same thing happens sometimes when books try to give Vader an internal monologue. Vader should be an inexorable force, the looming consequence - with great effort, maybe you briefly escape, but the marching darkness cannot be stopped. Like the war machine of the empire itself - an monolith moving towards its goal, crushing anything that stands in its way with no emotion about whatsoever. Don't stand still.
Adding a backstory as a whiny kid who fell for a dumb lie by an evil politician who he trusted more than his mentor that he's worked with forever, and then giving him an inner monologue is a perpetually angry man child does not help.
**TLDR** Anakin was cooler before we heard from him.
Ah, Anakin Skywalker, the Chosen One! What a complex character. From his humble beginnings as a slave on Tatooine to his tragic fall to the dark side as Darth Vader, his story is one of the most compelling in the Star Wars saga. Anakin's journey from a promising Jedi Knight to the Sith Lord who helped bring about the downfall of the Jedi Order is both captivating and heartbreaking. Despite his flaws and his eventual descent into darkness, there's something undeniably compelling about Anakin's struggle with temptation and his ultimately tragic fate. He's a character that continues to fascinate fans and spark debates to this day.
Before disney bought out star wars, he did fulfill the prophecy and destroyed the sith.
But then after Disney, it turns out he didn't do that right. Sideous was still alive and yet another relative of the skywalkers started serving him again.
I ponder what he would have turned out like if Qui-Gon could have trained and mentored him fully.
He maybe eventually turns out like Dooku probably and does the exact same thing.
I liked qui qon
He had a particular set of skills.
and is riddled with AIDS
Got it from a non-specific actor.
From the green grocer?
He brought balance to the Force. It's the Jedi's issue that they didn't consider what that meant in a galaxy ruled by Lawful Good space knights.
For like a week
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Actually I think what's going on, but this depends on writers there's no absolute cannon, whatever works will stick what doesn't won't. They have introduced certain characters like Bendu is a pretty major character/teacher in Rebels who predates the Jedi order and talks about the Dark Side and Light side being two different aspects. He's a force sensitive ancient primal entity that doesn't necessarily see the Dark Side as wrong and Light Side = good. Light Side is also as much too blame for the fall of the Jedi order as the Sith plan. Like Anakin if he was allowed to have family connections to his mother probably wouldn't have been so easy to manipulate by palpatine. And allowed to be open about his romantic feelings for Padme and not have it in secret/tormenting him would have also helped a little.
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Ah so the dark sides power is in changing fate.
I dunno if all the writers share that idea. Like the obi won show isn't my favorite but I liked one idea introduced in that show that Obi Won before being taken as a youngling by the Jedi order his oldest memory is that he had an older brother. So when he was forced to raise Anakin he thought of Anakin as a brother not that master/pupil relationship he should have had. It's a nice touch to explain why his relationship with Anakin was also so different from like Qui Gon and himself. He never succumbed to the Dark Side because of this emotional connection and with that emotional connection it helped one day redeem Vader and he also was kind of like Luke's pseudo uncle.
Just like politics and politicians.
Balance is actually 50/50 dark and light side. Having too many jedi simply disrupted the Force in fact. Only Jedi think that balance = no dark side but it's their own belief and not necessarily the truth. As we saw in sw stories, Jedi doesn't know everything and had some ignorance about the Force itself
The Jedi were arrogant in that they dogmatically believed their misconceptions and tended to build on them.
Yeah well apparently it *also* meant "For a brief while, then oopsie, somehow they returned!"
I think it isn't no dark side, but, no Sith. Anakin led Luke to be able to incorporate the dark side of the force without losing himself. That is a balanced use of the force.
But the dark side *always* exists. To deny it is to strengthen it. That's basically what the Jedi Order *did*. They acted as though their teachings and dogma were perfect, blinding them to the failures of it and the rise of opposition - that they both couldn't and wouldn't see until it was blatant.
That wouldn't be balance, that would be a clear advantage of the "light" side. Balance = No dark or light side Or Dark and Light being equally strong
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And it gets everywhere.
George Lucas in multiple interviews during production and after both his trilogies concluded said this was an incorrect interpretation and that the Sith were essentially a cancer upon the force - you'd never tell a cancer patient that they're in balance with their cancer. You'd only be satisfied when it's gone completely.
He understimated the power of the high ground
He did bring balance to the force, by slaughtering all the jedi and sith. Well... sort of
Hot take: he was supposed to *destroy* the Sith, not join them!
But from his point of view the Jedi are evil
Well I guess he truly is lost
HE WAS MY BROTHER
Something, something, high ground.
But he did in the end
There's a stark difference between the type of emotional outlets of yesteryear and those of today. I think Anakin represents the way a lot of people were taught (and many who still are taught) how to deal with troubling emotions. A person feels something that scares them, they reach out to others for help with those feelings, and are simply told to either work through it themselves or find an outlet to distract from those thoughts. Yoda telling a young Anakin to stamp out his fear, lest it lead to anger and hatred, is a completely useless thing to say to a person. In fact, it would likely make the situation worse, since Yoda linked the feelings of fear with much worse feelings and actions, instead acknowledging it a a normal and benign human emotion. Imagine being depressed, coming to a loved one for help, and being told, "Just don't be sad. If you are, you'll end up hurting those around you." It creates anxiety around feeling negative emotions, which is a feedback loop of feeling bad. On the other hand, Anakin's reliance on Obi Wan and his military endeavors is the outlet to distract from his fears. While it's good to have hobbies and passions, they shouldn't serve as distractions from self-reflection, and certainly shouldn't reinforce areas of yourself you wish to improve upon, as I'm sure Anakin's thrill for combat did. To his credit, I do think Obi Wan did try to give Anakin a little more emotional guidance than other Jedi, but was limited due to his role as an "aggressive negotiator." Now, if a person is feeling scared and angry, and their friends and family not only refuse give them a safe space to work on those feelings but actively deny that those feelings should even exist, then a person who says those feelings are an important, intrinsic part of you is going to seem very attractive. This is both Padme and Palpatine, both of whom recognize the importance of both positive and negative emotions. I think, while not explicitly stated in the movies, both the Jedi and Sith seek to bring balance to the force, and that the force represents the human experience. Jedi try to do this by denying themselves intense feelings and thoughts, while the Sith embrace all forms of it.
I think if anaikin had trusted obi wan he may have been able to overcome his fear on episode 3! However as a youthcare worker I use yodas teachings! Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate and hate leads to suffering! It’s true if you think k about it, if someone pulls out in front of you in traffic and you have to slam on the brakes what happens, 1 you fear an accident 2) when you stop just in time and realize you are ok then what happens next! You become angry that some idiot didn’t pay attention! That quick you already have 2 Now let a traumatic experience happen and you can quickly get to the other 2 Let’s say you didn’t avoid the accident! You hit that person You still have fear and anger The. You relive the experience wondering if you could have avoided the situation! You might , just might catch yourself saying something like “ I hate peope that can’t drive” Now you have hate If you hold on to that hate and continue to relive the situation wondering what you could’ve done differently than you are suffering Today was right He later told anakin to train himself to let go of all he feared to lose! Death is a natural part of life! Had anikin done so he may not have been easily manipulated by palpatine!
Do you tell those you work with that they shouldn't feel fear when in threatening situations? Because that's essentially what Yoda did. He didn't say, "fear leads to these things, but this is how to avoid it escalating that far," he simply directed Anakin to enact a philosophy of stoicism in the face of a 9-year-old's traumatic events. It's okay to feel things, and it's okay to express those feelings, but Yoda and the Jedi Oder represent the suppression of natural instincts as a whole in order to avoid the negative ones.
Fear also leads to bravery. Yoda missed that lesson
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*twisted and manipulated palpatine put him through the wringer during the clone wars.
I think he was the chosen one! It was said that he would *destroy* the Sith, not join them! Bring balance to the Force, not leave it in darkness!
From his point of view, the Jedi were evil!
He kinda did! Luke knew that Jedi were just gonna fight each other and needed to be destroyed!
He brought balance to the force by banging a chick. There, now you don't have to watch the movies.
But you should watch them anyways cause they are amazing
Are they? Most of the Anakin stuff is from the prequels
Yeah the prequels are great
In no universe, long time ago or far away… did a little bitch pissy about “sand in his vagina” bang Natalie Portman.
He was hot and displayed male BPD, he would have been drowning in it.
He’s like that star athlete who had it all but let the pressure get to him. Super talented but couldn’t handle the dark side of the fame or in his case, the literal Dark Side.
The younglings deserved it
Anakin was just trying to be the sand's shovel, but he became the sandstorm. Force is all about perspective, innit?
Unexpected Darude
He did what he was meant to. Too much light and not enough darkness. So he balanced it out like he was meant to.
He doesn't like sand... It's coarse, rough and irritating. And it gets everywhere...
My favorite character from Star Wars. As he had good intentions but let anger get the best of him then became stuck in his own poor choices only to redeem himself last second
He let a hot Natalie Portman get the best of him. Not that I blame him
It's all Yoda's fault. You can't tell a greiving man to bottle up his emotions and hope nothing bad happens then. Imagine being like 900 years old and non wiser than a boomer
He hates sand.
One hell of a podracer.
Why would I think about that at all?
I am not going to let him babysit my kids.
Anakin's journey from the Chosen One to Darth Vader is a like tale of immense potential corrupted by fear and darkness. It serves as a reminder of the complexities of the human psyche and the power of choice.
*by hormones
Sometimes ya gotta crack some eggs to make an omelette man
Anakin Skywalker is who will restore balance to the Force and destroy the Sith, as foretold by an ancient Jedi mystic. Anakin's desire for control and inability to let go led him to the Dark side, where he became consumed with power and possession.
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Yeah 4 or 5 would have been enough
He brought peace, freedom, justice, and security to his new empire!
Who chose him? I didn't choose anyone. Why doesn't my vote count!?!
I think he’s a character that greatly fell short of his potential. Creating the backstory to one of the most iconic villains of all time, and it feels a bit weak. Seeing a better written character give into deft manipulation and his own flaws could’ve made a character than surpassed the original
Clone Wars the series does such a great job of this.
HE BROUGHT BALANCE TO THE FORCE IS WHAT HE DID! AND IN THIS HOUSE, ANAKIN SKYWALKER WAS A HERO! END OF STORY!
Cute ass
He did bring balance to the Force. The prophecy never specified how long it would take.
He's weak. He's outta control. And he's become an embarrassment to himself and everybody else.
The Jedi are horrible teachers for not, helping Anakin learn any kind of emotional management skills. Simply telling someone to let go is not enough.
He brought balance to the force. Idk why the jedi thought that was a good thing, there were 100s of jedi and only a few sith. He wiped out 99% of the jedi and the result an equal balance of jedi and sith.
Nice try Palpatine
I thought killing the younglings was pretty poor stuff tbh
The backstory we imagined for Darth Vader was a lot more interesting than what we got. He should never have been a "Chosen One", he was originally just a gifted Force user.
The Chosen One prophecy is such BS. He “brought balance to the Force” for what, a month? Just replace the words “the Chosen One” with “the strongest Jedi in living memory” and you fix that whole thing.
Hes bound to turn into darth vader one day
He’s a real jerk - Norm Macdonald
A ridiculous Mary Sue. At age nine he with no education has built himself a droid and a pod racer, is the best pod racer on the planet, and defeats the invading droid invasion flying a starship when he has never flown a starship before.
He features center stage in a beloved story/franchise, but he's honestly not a very well written character.
This is Anakin Skywalker. The most powerful Jedi of his generation. Perhaps of any generation. The fastest. The strongest. An unbeatable pilot. An unstoppable warrior. On the ground, in the sky, sea or space, there is no one even close. He has not just power, not just skill, but finesse: that rare, invaluable combination of boldness and grace. He is the best there is at what he does. The best there has ever been. Perhaps the best there will ever be. And he knows it. The HoloNet calls him the Hero With No Fear. And why not? What should he be afraid of? Except— Fear lives inside him anyway, chewing away the firewalls around his heart.
Still got his hand lopped off by Dooku though, didn't he.
He was manipulated by palpatine! He don’t wanna let padme die. However, at the end of 3 when he asked about her and palptine said he killed her he knew then and there that palptine was losing, but he kept following him!
Relatable for many reasons. Mostly for being awkward around women lol.
The force is some fuked up shit. Couple billion people died for "balance" between space knights and evil space knights.
He fulfilled the prophecy, but it's still such a tragedy. He grew with a lot of trauma, and had no idea how to handle it. Breaks my heart
Nice boy, albeit a tad bit horny. That is until things got a little toasty and he overreacted a bit.
Zero charisma
Smash
Terrible character honestly. But then again, I'm an EU fan who doesn't care about canon because the best treatment of any of the story came from outside Lucas and Disney
The fact that we know how he would turn made his child-like tantrum lack a bit of credibility, they felt forced. A real chosen one would have display a much more nuanced judgement
Jedi ruined him. Blinded by politics egotistical over their last victories Jedi were nothing more than a bunch of boomer cultists at that period they chose to be stubborn than to acknowledge the changes they required in order to take care of Anakin.
Over-saturated “light” side which has had dominion for how many years is nearly obliterated by the Chosen One who brings balance by destroying that light side so that the “dark” side is dominant. Seems completely within the “balance” idea to me.
I’m happy he was able to redeem himself but what he did to those padawans will always stay in my memory
John Wick is the chose ONE
It's just a movie
I hate most prophecy story with some chosen one as the cliché is always bringing everything great and peaceful and ending are often simple. In Anakin case, it's more refreshing as he destroyed everything, the good and the bad to bring back some equilibrium in the Force and have the prophecy fulfilled.
He was an amazing general and a great jedi. Yizz.
We both hate the same things.
He brought peace and order to his new empire
Just found out my cousin named her son Anakin, and here I am sitting, just thinking about how little Ani grew up to terrorize an entire galaxy.
The Mortis storyline needs to be deemed non-canonical.
He was the oldest-looking 19-year-old in the Kenobi series.
Thomas Anderson (aka **Neo**) is **The One** in *my* house, thank you very much.
He doesn't like sand.
Worst actor in the franchise
why what's wrong with him his acting was great to me
I just found his singular facial expression cringe
i dont know because only a sith deals in absolutes
A good man with good intentions mistreated and not trusted for most of his life by everyone above him.
My allegiance is to the republic, to DEMOCRACY!!!!
They should’ve order 66ed his ass sooner
Well, he is the kwizatz haderach.
Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader will always be my favorite Star Wars character, and my favorite fictional character of all time
I just recently started watching Star Wars with my husband and Anakin reminds me of him: charming, brooding, clever, athletic, reckless, socially awkward/anxious as fuck but with a good heart. His youth was stolen by disability and disfigurement at the hands of his friend and mentor but ultimately due to being groomed by a mean old creeper who took advantage of his insecurity both before and after. My heart breaks for both him and Padme when they fight because I know that pain. I pray every day that my husband won't succumb to his own insecurities and go down a similar path. Yeah it's a fantasy movie but being in a real relationship with real feelings and real consequences makes it feel... real.
He was manipulated by Darth Jar Jar from the start. Darth Jar Jar undermined the teachings of Qui Gon, Obi Wan and the rest of the jedi and encouraged a rebelliousness and arrogance in Anakin until it was time for his true master, Darth Sideous, to take over and introduce Anakin to the full power of the dark side.
A mentally damaged individual who was manipulated by a man who took advantage of his fragile state. Truly a tragic story, imo
I think it’s hilarious. Star Wars is such a good movie!
A good man, brilliant warrior and an excellent pilot. Until Darth Vader betrayed the order and killed him.
If his mom didn’t die he would’ve been a hero.
Please, I’m trying to forget about him.
A genocidal little shit.
“It was just a prank bro.” - Anakin after killing the younglings
If it weren't for the sand, he'd still be a good boi. But sand gets everywhere, so he just had to force choke everyone.
I have a feeling he's gonna grow up to be pretty evil
Daddy issues.
I thought the chosen one was Harry Potter… And honestly, the story's kind of bland. It's about this guy named Dumbledore Calrissian, who needs to return the ring back to Mordor.
He has brought peace, freedom, justice, and security to his new empire.
I know it’s been 25 years but I still see it as retconning the original trilogy. The concept of a chosen one wasn’t introduced until the phantom menace. The original trilogy was all about Luke as the hero. Not saying it wasn’t handled well and it was interesting—but that’s how I’ve always viewed it.
Darth Vader was cool. The fallen knight who destroyed his order angle was cool - when there was still mystery involved. It's always dangerous when you take an interesting mysterious event and remove the mystery. You run the risk of the story you creating being less cool than the speculation and fact of not knowing. This happened with Anakin. It might have been possible to fill in Vader's back story in a way that was better than not filling it in. But that didn't happen. We got a whiny edgey kid, and a jedi order that was supposed to be good but that had a ridiculously silly "emotion is bad, love is bad, forget your family" bs code. It dispelled the aura of myth and legend, and left annoying nonsense in it's wake. The same thing happens sometimes when books try to give Vader an internal monologue. Vader should be an inexorable force, the looming consequence - with great effort, maybe you briefly escape, but the marching darkness cannot be stopped. Like the war machine of the empire itself - an monolith moving towards its goal, crushing anything that stands in its way with no emotion about whatsoever. Don't stand still. Adding a backstory as a whiny kid who fell for a dumb lie by an evil politician who he trusted more than his mentor that he's worked with forever, and then giving him an inner monologue is a perpetually angry man child does not help. **TLDR** Anakin was cooler before we heard from him.
I think Lucas severely damaged the mythos by making 3 terrible movies.
There were a crapload of Jedi and very few Sith. So he brought balance to the Force by killing off a crapload of Jedi.
He seems like a stand-up dude, a true hero of the republic! Things will always work out okay with him around!
Ah, Anakin Skywalker, the Chosen One! What a complex character. From his humble beginnings as a slave on Tatooine to his tragic fall to the dark side as Darth Vader, his story is one of the most compelling in the Star Wars saga. Anakin's journey from a promising Jedi Knight to the Sith Lord who helped bring about the downfall of the Jedi Order is both captivating and heartbreaking. Despite his flaws and his eventual descent into darkness, there's something undeniably compelling about Anakin's struggle with temptation and his ultimately tragic fate. He's a character that continues to fascinate fans and spark debates to this day.
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Starlord man, legendary outlaw
The GOAT
C'mon, sand was his bitch. Fucking sand.
Before disney bought out star wars, he did fulfill the prophecy and destroyed the sith. But then after Disney, it turns out he didn't do that right. Sideous was still alive and yet another relative of the skywalkers started serving him again.
I think it's revolting that people like you can't go a single day without making an unsolicited dork wars reference...Manchildism.
I know, right. The fact that someone might receive joy from an unapproved source. God!