Originally posted by: zombie84
We meet Anakin as a 9 year old--cheery, full of compassion, resourceful, always helping people, the sweetest kid you could meet. What a brilliant irony to present Vader this way. Then next we see him--he is angst-ridden, emotionally-upset, power-hungry and with aspirations of dictatorship. What the fuck? How did we get there? Who knows! Use your imagination--assume things. Asssume everything. The problem is that these issues are the core of the PT, and according to Lucas they are both the main reason why Lucas wanted to do the PT and the only reason Lucas introduced Anakin as a child in part 1. But he not only botched it--he completely threw it away. He didn't even try. The Anakin in Episode II is not the same character from the previous film--i never even once imagined that Jake Lloyd grew up to be this person. And whatever reasons that made him become that way are not even so much as hinted at--its not that we have to use our imagination: we don't even have a frame of reference.
We meet Anakin as a 9 year old--cheery, full of compassion, resourceful, always helping people, the sweetest kid you could meet. What a brilliant irony to present Vader this way. Then next we see him--he is angst-ridden, emotionally-upset, power-hungry and with aspirations of dictatorship. What the fuck? How did we get there? Who knows! Use your imagination--assume things. Asssume everything. The problem is that these issues are the core of the PT, and according to Lucas they are both the main reason why Lucas wanted to do the PT and the only reason Lucas introduced Anakin as a child in part 1. But he not only botched it--he completely threw it away. He didn't even try. The Anakin in Episode II is not the same character from the previous film--i never even once imagined that Jake Lloyd grew up to be this person. And whatever reasons that made him become that way are not even so much as hinted at--its not that we have to use our imagination: we don't even have a frame of reference.
Yeah, that’s exactly the problem there. I can’t identify with Anakin in AotC because he doesn’t seem like the same character anymore. We got no transition from the previous character, so we couldn’t care about that good side anymore. People can’t argue that it was just a teenage thing, because, even though everyone has their problems in those years, a kid that nice, outgoing, and bursting with optimism will not become that much of a jerk unless something big happened to mess him up. A humble life as a Jedi should have only given him more self discipline if anything. It just makes no sense to me.