rcb said:
Vaderisnothayden said:

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.

i believe it was Obi-Wan telling us about anakin in the OT. Anikan never told Obi-Wan about the event with the tuskens. so Obi-Wan said Anakin was a good man even though he didn't hear about the tusken slaughter.

That still doesn't fix it up. It wasn't just some view of Obi Wan. It was the picture the OT was giving us of Anakin. We weren't supposed to say "This is Obi Wan's view. Maybe he didn't know everything." We were supposed to assume Obi Wan knew what he was talking about and thus get the idea that Anakin was a good man. Lucas and Kasdan were giving us the message that Anakin was a a good man originally. Obi Wan was just the mouthpiece they used in communicating with us.

The argument that it was just Obi Wan's view is just an excuse made to fix up Lucas's prequels mess, and I don't agree with making excuses to hide his prequel mess. The OT clearly told us that Anakin was a good man and the prequels went against that, major fuck up due to Lucas revising his story and turning Anakin into a jerk. You can bet Anakin wasn't a jerk in Lucas's original story or Lucas wouldn't have had Kenobi give us the impression he was a good guy.