Anakin wasn’t wrong.

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[DanielGreeneReviews]

Am I joking? Am I serious? Am I just practicing debate cause I miss it? I don’t even know.

[lordkronos]

I like how it is highly shown that Anakin was a red flag of an individual asking for help, love, and respect and no one gave it to him. He asks the wisest man about his visions and Yoda just tells him to man up.

[graphic-no_avail]

Ashoka leaving the jedi temple really added so much to Anakins character and disillusionment with the Jedi order.

[FractalSpiral]

In a way, the movies are a perfect reflection of Anakin's soul. If only a little bit of love and care had been put in when it was needed, everything wouldn't have been as bad. Truly, George Lucas is a genius.

[jacobmckee]

This is why I always advocate for Anakin/Vader as being one of the most tragic villains and yet still one of the best.

[dereklasker]

I still choose to believe Padme was actually killed by Palpatine, and he took her life force and gave it to Anakin to save him. That was the true power of Darth Plagueis being able to “save the ones he cared about from dying”, and that’s why she was medically fine and the droids couldn’t tell why she was dying

[destroyytomii]

anakin is one of if not the only person who really shows compassion for droids despite his own poor life. his emotions truly make his character

[dwilliams]

Expanded lore talks about this a good bit, and some of the great expanded content for Count Dooku discusses the idea that the Jedi were so blinded by the big picture of keeping the Republic stable that they allowed countless smaller day-to-day evils to perpetuate because it kept things stable. Republic-era Star Wars remains one of my favourite morality tales for exactly this reason (despite the prequels writing). Anakin's fall is 100% foreseeable and not even particularly unreasonable at first (even if he is written to often sound whiny, I won't defend that part).

[StevenJQuinlan]

The truly sad thing is that Anakin never stopped being a slave. He was a slave to Watto, then a slave to Jedi Doctrine, then a slave to Sidious before finally being allowed to die. I'm not only not surprised he turned to the Dark Side, it's amazing he was able to break it's hold even for a moment at the end of RotJ

[sm]

I'd also like to point out that one other person Anakin cared for deeply was his Padawan Ahsoka Tano. She was truly his sister, and she's someone he ended up losing as well not through death but by how the Jedi Order failed her. He tried absolutely everything he could to help her but it was all out of his control and all within the control of the Jedi council. He was powerless to stop her from walking away - but he doesn't blame her, he blames himself, along with (and rightfully so) the Jedi.

[crs]

It’s even worse if you think about that Anakin as a child while training at the Jedi temple never really had friends, he was always ridiculed and envied by his peers just because he was so much better then them. Anakin only had 2 persons in his life that treated him with respect in his youth and those were obiwan and palpatine . Palpatine didn’t just appear when Anakin was 18, he was always there bringing him to night clubs to spy on corrupt senators or going to him for advice and giving him gifts . So Anakin from the first day he came at the Jedi temple was getting programmed to hate the republic and his Jedi colleagues. It didn’t help that the Jedi had a agenda against Anakin, look at the clone wars series in the obiwan death saga or the Ashoka banishment saga.

[gman]

I think “control your feelings” is a bit different than “suppress your feelings” or don’t feel things. It makes sense in that their biggest rivals can actually feel what you feel.

[yoshurae]

The truly tragic thing about Anakin's fall is that Palpatine's main manipulation of Anakin is that he listens to him without judgment

[TheNesapotamia]

Making Obi-Wan Anakin's teacher was like giving custody of a child to his older brother who just got out of college, and then expecting him to know how to parent his high emotional needs kid brother, during a war.

[ace_does_internet_stuff]

The scene where Anakin kills the younglings was described in the novelization as he went in to help them escape, but when the kid called him master it reminded him he was never granted that rank of master, which set him off and killed the kids

[jonahsmith]

Man, film criticism in the early-mid 2000’s was toxic as fuck. Anakin gets taken away from his mother as a child - who is still in slavery - told to forget she exists and then bury his feelings by the people around him, causing him to act out.

Critics: “hE’s sO wHInEy”.

Also, remember that time Patton Oswald did a stand up routine about how he wanted to go back in time to murder George Lucas so that he couldn’t make the prequels? I still have no idea why those movies got the level of hate that they did.

[mega_bird]

From what I understand, Obi-Wan went through a similar situation that Anakin was going through.
That’s why he was more of a friend to him, he understands his struggle but doesn’t know how to help him so he thought that if Anakin had a companion or a friend he wouldn’t feel alone.

[ImSkydon]

To speak on why Qui-Gon doesn’t just help is that the Jedi simply are not allowed to. The Jedi at the this point are pretty much not allowed to step in unless they are ordered to by the Jedi Council or if the Senate orders them to and mostly the Republic Senate. Tatooine is not a part of the Republic so unless the Republic wants a war with the Hutt Syndicate, Qui-Gon had to do it the “legal” way pretty much.

[ailene_e]

Anakin’s life is just completely tragic and I felt sorry for him. He deserves better in every way. I totally agree with this video and thanks for articulating it so well.

[gman]

While Anakin's personal view was flawed and his actions were reprehensible, there was a greater purpose to them. The prophecy according to the Jedi was to destroy the Sith and bring balance to the force, which is exactly what he does (eventually). However, the Jedi had become arrogant and complacent by the time of the prequels, and they also needed to be destroyed, otherwise balance could never have been achieved. We watched their failures in the clone wars and with Anakin personally. Anakin fulfilled his destiny as the chosen one by effectively hitting the reset button on all force users.