Kellythatsit said:
To simply highlight one as a rehash or some kind of fan service seems wilfully dismissive.I find the whole “anakin skywalker is dead” to be ridiculous. It is and has always been supposed to be a metaphora. Vader says I am your father. He has always recognized himself as Anakin Skywalker.
Hmmm … Return of the Jedi?
Luke: I have accepted that you were once a Jedi named Anakin Skywalker, my father.
Darth Vader: That name no longer has any meaning for me!
He calls Luke son countless times in ROTJ, too. He never denies being the same persona as Anakin Skywalker. He calls ObiWan, ObiWan, his son, son, his wife by his name; even the emperor refers to him as “my old friend”.
Anakin being dead is just a symbolic statement, not only in the movie, but within the character as well.
Basing the difference between the long anticipated duel between two known-to-each-other people in which the quiet helmeted bad guy kills the peaceful mentor who is willing to give his life after calling him by his name and stating to have been looking forward to that moment in details enables me to say that Elementary is not a rehash of BBC’s Sherlock, that Netflix’s House of Cards is a totally different and novel-approached series than old british HoC; even that essentially The Hunchback of Notre Dame would be a totally different movie than the hypothetical Hunchback of New York as much as Disney’s Lion King is nothing at all like Hamlet