TheBoost said:Vaderisnothayden said:rcb said:whether you like george or not, he knows SW best.
No, I think the special editions and the prequels prove that that is emphatically not the case.
Or perhaps "If you're willing to kill a bunch of kids rather that let totally natural things like death happen, you really need to work on letting go."
Love didn't drive Anakin to kill those kids. Possessivness, greed, fear, and anger did. You know... the Dark Side.
Yeah, love did make him to kill those kids. Love for Padme made him join the dark side to save her and that led to him killing the kids. Message of the film: Love makes you kill kiddies. Screwed up film.
If he did it for love he would have been willing to go away with Padme when she asked, or at least no Force-choke her out at the smallest provacation. But he gave into fear (of losing her) which led to anger and suffering. He started down the path of the darkside and dominate his destiny it did. Love didn't matter to him once he gave into the darkside, only power.
Love didn't lead to any of those things. Greed and possesiveness and desire for control did. Do you turn on "Cops" and see some wife-beater and say "Love leads to wifebeating, what a screwed up message."
Presumably those Cops episodes don't tell you that love leads to wifebeating, but ROTS does show you that love leads to the dark side. He is attached to Padme and loves her, this causes him to fear losing her (when his visions show death for her) and to want to save her, and this leads to the dark side. There's a clear line of cause and effect from love to evil. We're given the impression that Anakin should in fact have not cared whether Padme died or not, which would obviously have required him not to love her. Love led to the dark side. And just to rub in the point, we're reminded that the Sith specialize in passion. Passion is the dark side. Which to me sounds like saying human feeling and emotion is bad. Anakin shouldn't feel, then he'd be fine and never turn evil. He shouldn't feel about his wife dying. But feeling is what makes us human. Passion is what makes us human. The film strikes me as condemning human feeling and saying we shouldn't feel or love.
If he did it for love he would have been willing to go away with Padme when she asked, or at least no Force-choke her out at the smallest provacation. But he gave into fear (of losing her) which led to anger and suffering. He started down the path of the darkside and dominate his destiny it did. Love didn't matter to him once he gave into the darkside, only power.
Just because his love was twisted once he turned to the dark side, and mixed with suspicion and anger and lust for power, doesn't mean love didn't lead him to the dark side in the first place. His number one reason for turning dark was that he loved Padme and wanted to prevent her death,. Love led to the dark side, to evil, to slaughtering kids. And there's holy Yoda telling us it's better not to care if our loved ones die.