skyjedi2005 said:

Then that scary villain who oozes gravitas becomes an emo douche in the form of hayden christensen.

Either i have to keep both versions of vader separate in my mind or the character is ultimately ruined, a film icon ruined by one of the people responsible for his creation.

Yeah. That's why it's worthwhile to point out how the OOT and PT don't work as one canon. Helps us in keeping them separate in our minds. And it's possible to do so because those two trilogies just really don't work as being in the same imagined reality together.

The clone wars and prequels treated the villains in such a laughable manner that they can't be taken seriously its like the villains in a warner bros toon. Whether it is ian hamming it up as palpatine in episode III, grevious in episode III or the cartoon clone wars, ventress from clone wars, and dooku in the clone wars cartoon. They are always treated in a childish manner and completely dumb. You always have the villains escaping like cowards especially in the cartoon.

In the OOT the villains were never a joke. Then in the SE we have cartoon Jabba and in the PT we have cartoonish Trade Federation guys, cartoonish droid troopers, hammed-up Sidious (ROTJ Palpatine was overacted, but in an artful careful way that worked, while ROTS Sids was just grotesque hamming) and cartoon-character Grievous. And of course the show has plenty cartoonish characters, though at least they're less out of place in a cartoon show. But then we have to remember that Lucas used to joke that TPM was the "animated movie". Ventress in the cartoon doesn't bother me. She did at first, but taken as a cartoon character in a cartoon she's pretty well done.