Originally posted by: Jumpman
zombie,
First off, you're correct. But, for me, I can buy the Anakin character and the love story in Episode II. That's why Episode III works wonders on me.
I can see where people HATE the Anakin character in Episode II. Luke was the same way in Episodes IV and V, but not to Anakin's level. Essentially, Anakin wants to be more than what he is now and he feels he can be more...hence the whining. I can buy that. It doesn't make him likeable but I understand it. Where I find Anakin likeable in Episode II is his story with Padme and his arc with his Mother. He's a good kid. It's just that he's also a teenager who wants more than wants being given to him at the time...and that's not enough. It's especially not enough when some one else, Palpatine, is telling you the exact opposite to what your mentor and superiors are telling you.
zombie,
First off, you're correct. But, for me, I can buy the Anakin character and the love story in Episode II. That's why Episode III works wonders on me.
I can see where people HATE the Anakin character in Episode II. Luke was the same way in Episodes IV and V, but not to Anakin's level. Essentially, Anakin wants to be more than what he is now and he feels he can be more...hence the whining. I can buy that. It doesn't make him likeable but I understand it. Where I find Anakin likeable in Episode II is his story with Padme and his arc with his Mother. He's a good kid. It's just that he's also a teenager who wants more than wants being given to him at the time...and that's not enough. It's especially not enough when some one else, Palpatine, is telling you the exact opposite to what your mentor and superiors are telling you.
Jumpman, the greatest travesty of the PT was those ten years when Anakin is a cute boy and now he is a whiny teenager, what happened? Lucas does the correct thing with TPM and makes Anakin innocent to throw the viewer with preconceived notions that Darth Vader was always bad. But AOTC, begins, and he is a different person, and the viewer is supposed to assume he is has gotten arrogant, just like we should assume he is great friends with Kenobi, just like we should assume Palpatine & Anakin have developed this great relationship behind the scenes. The starting of AOTC makes the viewer assume alot has gone on in 10 years, I say, "SHOW US THIS ON SCREEN!!!!"
Anakin should have been likeable in AOTC, he should have been a hero, this great jedi, with this great personality, so when he falls in ROTS the viewer says, "A waste of talent." -From A Bronx Tale. There is nothing more depressing then having an athlete as a role model who is totally likeable and just see them crumble later in life.
Pete Rose my idol growing up, EVERYONE loved him. I loved the way he played, the way he talked in interviews, I loved his arrogance, I wanted to be Pete Rose everytime I played Baseball. Now 20 years later, I see the man as a tragic figure, he bet on baseball, he bet on his own team, he got convicted of tax evasion, I just see him in interviews now as this pathetic man who was my idol as a kid.
Anakin was not likeable in AOTC, so why should I want to be like him? Every fan should have wanted to be Anakin, this guy who was powerful, had alot of charm and personality, and was a take charge guy, but his one flaw was he didnt know when to stop for power. Just like Pete Rose, he had it all as one of the greatest hitters of alltime, he was now a manager, but he couldn't stop betting on baseball.
When Anakin was burning up, I said, "Thank God, put him out of his misery." That is the problem with the way Lucas portrayed Anakin in the PT.