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Chapters
0:00 Intro
1:12 Read the Book!
1:46 The Hero With No Fear
3:42 Scars of Slavery
7:32 Attachments are Forbidden
10:19 The Dead-Star Dragon
13:33 The Road to Hell
20:23 Darth Vader
24:18 The Trap of the Sith
27:59 A Different Man?
31:20 Redemption
35:58 Outro
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A very moving and in-depth treatment of Anakin's reason for being. Thank you.
"All things die."
Jedi that live in the Force:
"I didn't get the memo."
the jedi's strict opposition to attachment was taken too far, the jedi even if they were technically allowed to love by the jedi code, the current order had essentially restricted it entirely. Love should be one of the Jedi's greatest tools and virtues, the unending love for life and others, and the dedication to protect that love, should be a strength of the jedi. The Jedi had allowed themselves to become too cold and loveless, out of them living in constant fear of the dark side. They are so afraid of falling to the dark side, but that very fear leads them closer to it. That fear lead to Anakin's fall as much as anything else. He was technically allowed to love, but he wasn't thought the right way how, because everyone was afraid of any kind of love in the jedi order.
Very amazing analysis. And it's very true. Anakin Showed signs of being Darth Vader before his turn to the darkside. One of the biggest examples being the death of his mother at the hands of the Tusken Raiders in Episode 2.
Anakin Skywalker was suppose to be a deep tale of what happends when someone scared is given tremendous power. It would have been better if little annie never was taught the jedi arts… But his darkness while not foretold was needed to bring balance, Luke could never kill and end the Sith menace, it was anakin as Vader who as a sith lord ended the sith menace. He was too old to be trained to much baggage to give the power.
Hayden Christensen played him perfectly but much like great performances of evil characters it hurts the careers of the actors. Hes just like Stephen boyd's portrayal of marcella in Ben Hur a truly realistic bad caracter was done perfectly which made people not like the actor for the character he played
Vader was Anakin after he lost that which he feared to lose. Only when he was given something he thought he had long since lost was he freed from his chains
There are only two significant problems I have with prequel Anakin: that he doesn’t actually do anything good or heroic in Attack of the Clones and that he jumps from joining Palpatine in desperation to being down with child murder way too fast. When someone brought it to my attention I was blown away. I went over the events in Attack of the Clones in my head and I couldn’t find a single instance where Anakin goes out of his way to do much of anything without getting something out of it. Protecting Padme? He likes Padme. Catching Obiwan with his hover car? It’s what’s expected from him, it’s obligation. Saving his mother? It’s his mother. Rescuing Obiwan on Geonosis? Only because Padme told him to. In Episode three there’s a scene where Anakin’s crying to himself wracked with guilt for what he had done. Hear me out on this one, what if this was after he killed a bunch of innocent children instead of greedy politicians and business owners from the enemy faction? I personally would feel much much worse about killing children than politicians.
so did palpatine put those dreams and nightmares about padmaes death in his head? I thought he did
There is a Darth Vader inside us all. Just think about that.
If Vader killed sidious, Luke and Leia he would've eventually turned into Darth Nihlus. Just black hole absorbing life around him.
This, makes my tail wag.
This dude is wrong on so many leveled I had to stop watching g half way in
7:58 to quote Darkside Divas: Anakin really only cared about 4 people and a droid.
This reminds me of your video in why jedi guardians were usually the ones to fall to the dark side. They see themselves as the saviors and therefore went on killingsprees.
Anakins philosophy can be summed up with one simple sentence: "If you are not with me, then you are my enemy."
Anakin was an angsty teenage girl in the movies. No depth just whiny
Darth Vader is Star Wars.
Good… Good…
if you needed this video and to read the books to understand the story of Anakin/Vader your not a human and have never exchanged dialog with other humans, never experienced hardships or have been severely brain damaged by spending too much time on twitter or reddit, most of this is very obvious
TY for this in-depth, non simplistic (Disney+) look at the character Annakin Skywalker. It's very much appreciated, and enjoyable yet relaxing video to watch.
This is why Rey is so hated. Star Wars’ message to the viewers is “you can fall and do bad things, but there is good. You can come back.” However, Rey was presented as being a flawless person. Someone who never does anything wrong. Because of politics. Kathleen Kennedy and her ilk believe that if you hold certain things to be true, you are irredeemably evil and must be destroyed. No second chances, nothing. Kylo Ren was the most interesting character in the sequels because he did what Anakin couldn’t: let go of his desire for approval. But this is corrupted because Rey is the female representation. A man can’t save the day, it has to be a woman. But not just any woman, a woman who flawlessly accepts MY sense of right and wrong, who hates the people I hate, does what I would do because like she is flawless, I am flawless. No dissent is allowed. If you dissent, you die. This is why Finn, Poe, and Kylo take a back seat. They’re men. Flawed men who don’t deserve power because they’re evil. How are they evil? Because they told a woman she was wrong.
wow..brilliant
Anakin is one of my favorite characters in all of fiction, and this analysis just reinforces that. It also makes luke redeeming him in episode 6 more powerful. The bond between father and son is something else, ya know? Im kinda rambling but this is just such an amazing video, magnificent job
I think your comment about Vader “Running on inertia” was particularly insightful, but the same point applies equally to Darth Sidious. Compare how dynamic Palpatines scheming during the Clone Wars was to his almost lackadaisical retention of power in the Imperial Era. One giant superweapon after another, despite each and every one being either destroyed by vastly weaker yet more motivated forced, or rendered obsolete by circumstance. Power for its own sake is the emptiest thing there is, and once Palpatine annihilated the Jedi and seized control of the galaxy, there was really nothing left but perching on his throne and indulging in petty spite. Vader was a victim of his perceived failures, while his Sith Master was destroyed by his own success as much as Luke’s. In fact, Luke’s victory is what gave drive back to Palpatine’s spirit in the EU.
9:09
Anyone thinking of Luke going to save his friends from Vader in Empire? The difference between Luke and Anakin is Luke put his principles before his idealism and used it to temper his loyalty. His life helped him make better choices, but that same love and loyalty that finally enabled the destruction of the dark side. It should also be remembered that, just as this cat said, that's what balance meant until people didn't get Buddhism took over something they didn't understand to cash some checks. Revenge wasn't part of returning balance, he could've changed the problems with the Jedi as a Grand Master more effectively, but instead he practiced ego, embraced the dark side and became very close to destroying his destiny for his own goals.
I'm still attached to people who aren't in my life (or don't deserve to be) anymore.
Holy shit, this was beautiful.
Finally . . . someone who understood the complex nature of Anakin Skywalker. Perhaps this should also get people to understand that we human beings are equally complex or that we can not only be decent but allow our emotions to let the monster that resides within us to come out.
I never understood why the Jedi would give a Knight who just passed the trials to be a Jedi Knight a padawan. You would think in their “wisdom” that they would know a padawan needs someone with more experience.
Absent of a stable father figure creates a void and a fear in the adult that cannot be erased without lots of therapy.
Beautiful
I guess anakin finally got rid of those attachments
Vader =/= Anakin Read Star Wars Rogue Planet. Vader is a different personality formed at a young age by survival based trauma. There is a novel that takes place months after episode 1 where Anakin tries to back an assassin off warning the assassin "I cant hold him! I cant stop him!" The next chapter? Kenobi steps over the burned corpse of the assassin.
Anakin wasnt talking about himself.
"I cant stop HIM."
He meant the unnamed personality that had helped him survive. Later dubbed Darth Vader.
If your worst fears come to fruition then what is left to fear or care about? Fear is the dark side and Anakin’s fears consumed him.
I rather thought that Darth Vader was basically Anakin on PTSD and similar mental health issues that Darth Sidious/Palpatine was more than happy to prey upon
I always remember the line Palpatine says to Anakin at the end of the Phantom Menace, "We will be watching your progress with great interest, young Skywalker."'
After watching this, you talking about everything in his life spiralling out of control and unravelling, it's not something Palpatine picked up on in Revenge of the Sith. He was planning on it this whole time, from the moment Anakin met Maul or earlier, Sidious knew about the boy. Imagine how long he could have been working at his plan to assume Anakin into his New Order and the overarching scheme to take the Galaxy, eh?
It's funny that Vader still has compassion even after turning to the Dark side, his anger at losing members of the 501st under his command cause him to go on a furious rampage against the enemy that killed his troopers, the same as slaughtering those sand people, all the times he has ran into near death for Kenobi. That drive, to prevent loss, was always in him and was always his undoing.
Vader was always inside of him just waiting for when everything boiled over. The same Ani underneath, compassion for his friends and hatred for those who'd hurt his companions, the same short temper, the same arrogance. Through all of the films it is there and is shown overtly sometimes with music to really convey the message of what Ani really is inside, when I watched the prequels as a youngling, the only time I saw Anakin as good was when he was a boy on Tatooine.
Every other time I saw him as an anti-hero bordering on a villain, always that dark character underneath that would burst out at moments of stress or fear, in terms of looking at it through 'the force'. He always gave to the dark side at least in his nature and attitude when put in difficult positions, you get the feeling from his character that you cant really trust him. Like having a nice loving friend that has quite scary anger management issues, one day he is going to flip, though you care about him enough to stick by him and make sure he is ok… Kenobi is such a tortured soul.
Even as a kid watching the story a long time ago in a-, I understood the force and what it was as a plot device, like the angel and the devil on the shoulder. Thing is, force users can become quite easily corrupted by the dark side because of their importance over regular galactic folk, they're targeted by the Bogan. Force users can connect with and use the force and as such are incredibly powerful beings, some Sith lords bordered on demi-gods with how much power they could draw. Some could pull Starships from orbit… all it takes is a few whispers in the ear, a few dark promises from the dark side, a few dreams of this and that. Like Chaos in Warhammer, the force seems to be, "infectious" in a way. Then here comes "the Chosen One", the prophesised being, a recently freed slave boy with major attachment issues and a passionate temper. Then you train him to connect to the force, then the spirits of the dark side detect that, Sidious detects that and they all go "WOW! Free real estate!" The whispers, the irresistible promises, the assurances that wash away your fears. Too good to be true? That's the dark side.
If those "nightmares" he had are not Sidious' doing, then they're the dark whispers of the Force, as Yoda says the Dark side can be misleading and it can cloud your vision. It has a will of it's own and acts on the minds of force sensitive mortals, cloud it with a vision of loss and pain thereby drawing them in to the clutches of the Dark side.
I never trusted Anakin's character because he would give in to those visions and those fears. As a youngling watching the sequels for the first time, I was always waiting for the moment when he'd flip, with the hindsight of the Original Trilogies it was just a matter of waiting for the other shoe to drop for me. Though watching Ani get his legs cut off and his entire self crisped right up by the lava, did make ten or eleven or so year old me deeply
traumatiseduncomfortable.Like anakin is just a deeply traumatized kid being groomed by a bunch of people who wanted to use him for their own ends because he's basically Jesus with the athleticism of Lebron.
There should be an alternative timeline where after Anakin murked dooku being like I did my part I got a kid to raise I retire and yeeting it with padme and lived happily ever after just working on ships, droids, and sparring with ahsoka and obi wan, bc that's all he wanted.
Because let's be real at this point he's a war hero who is more beloved than the order itself, the order can't do shit.
Though padme is a groomer too, just the least bad groomer, yes Obi Wan is a worse groomer than Padme he literally raised anakin expecting him to be jesus.
Alot of Jedi dabbled in the dark side but some embodi the dark side
no offense man but i had to skip a ad every 4 minutes was kinda annoying.
This is largely true. Lucas highly implied it when the Jedi Council were testing his aptness to be trained. They saw it coming. More importantly, they saw how it would happen. Their hubris was isolating and patronizing this dangerous potential foe, grooming him indirectly into turning against them and being entirely unaware of what was going on in the Senate
Guts and Anakin are my favorite fictional characters in all of media, because they are the most human who've made mistakes and ultimately have become better by learning from those mistakes. What wonderful analysis.
People had the most stupid reasons to hate on the prequels