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Post #354760

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Vaderisnothayden
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One of the flaws with Anakin turning to the darkside...
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Date created
15-Apr-2009, 4:05 PM

After I saw the OT I assumed Anakin turned dark pretty quickly as a result of his anger or something, like how the emperor tried to turn Luke dark through his anger in ROTJ. I just expected it to be convincing, unlike how it was done in ROTS.

It's true that as early as AOTC Annie was not a nice guy. You might understand him killing some Tuskens after his mother's death (though it would be risking a turn to the dark side if he did it out of anger), but killing Tusken KIDS is something else entirely. That shows he wasn't a good guy, as does his support for dictatorship. In the OT Lucas gave us the impression that Anakin was a good guy who got turned evil. Clearly he revised that part of the story for the PT when he turned Annie into an asshole who became more of an asshole.

Also, re killing the Tuskens, by the standards of the OT killing those Tuskens in a rage should have been enough to turn him all the way dark. The emperor clearly hoped to turn Luke dark just by getting him to kill his father in a rage.

I think in the PT we're supposed to get the message that Anakin did turn dark gradually. Killing the tuskens being the first step. Using rage to defeat Dooku and killing him being another step. But this gradual process was not made very clear and we're still given a picture of him being one of the good guys before he signs up to help the emperor and then a short while later being so far gone that he agrees with the emperor that Jedi are going to do terrible stuff.