Originally posted by: auraloffalwaffle
It's that what we see and what we hear and what we know about his future are not consistent with each other, not that Anakin's emotional state should remain the same throughout. Anakin's responses seem inconsistent with his situation. I honestly feel that his responses to his surroundings and situations seem constantly at odds with who he is and who he will become.
Originally posted by: BeeJay
Nobody, it might be getting a bit off-topic. But I might like to have an explanation of what you mean by inconsistent. Emotions of turmoil can't all be the same from day to day or Star Wars movie to Star Wars movie ....emotions are like a storm, and they are always going up and down. Especially with Anakin Skywalker.
...Nobody, it might be getting a bit off-topic. But I might like to have an explanation of what you mean by inconsistent. Emotions of turmoil can't all be the same from day to day or Star Wars movie to Star Wars movie ....emotions are like a storm, and they are always going up and down. Especially with Anakin Skywalker.
It's that what we see and what we hear and what we know about his future are not consistent with each other, not that Anakin's emotional state should remain the same throughout. Anakin's responses seem inconsistent with his situation. I honestly feel that his responses to his surroundings and situations seem constantly at odds with who he is and who he will become.
First of all - you see? This is why I didn't want to discuss it. We're distracting these other guys from their discussion of Luke's temple.
Anyway, Aural seems to understand what I mean. Responses is a good word. What I'm talking about is not emotional inconsistency per se, but motivational inconsistency. Emotions may be wild, they may be complex. But they are NEVER random. And Anakin was fairly consistent up until the Fall, in that I could see how each event affected his reasoning. And it seemed to me that the events immediately leading up to Anakin's fall were pushing him further and further AWAY from the Dark side, while nothing compellingly pushed him back towards it. Yet... down on his knee he goes. Not because he felt it, but because the plot required it. From that point on, I lost all sense of who he was.
And that really is the last I'm saying on this here. But feel free to check out the review I put in my old LiveJournal, right after the movie came out: Come to the Dark Side... we have cookies!