I know when I was a child Darth Vader was the man. Every Halloween I was Darth Vader. My favorite toy Darth Vader and now I see the same reactions in my own children except my oldest insist on calling him Ani. It hurts me to hear that. Anyway, the thread made me stop for a second today and talk to my son about Vader and really make sure he understood that Darth Vader was not a nice guy. My son just looked at me like I was an idiot for trying to explain this to him so I ended the conversation.

My point is it is very disturbing to think of children idolizing the bad guy but at the same time hasn't this always been done to some extent. How many of us on this board felt as I did about Darth Vader when we were children? How many of us dressed up as him on Halloween? How many people have become famous in the past because they were the bad guy? I believe Oliver Stone touched on this subject in Natural Born Killers. Society makes hero's out of rotten people so it's no wonder that there are people who look at Anakin this way. Doesn't mean it's right.