msycamore said:
Yes, I guess it makes sense as there's no temptation and no seduction, the force seems to operate on a light switch. Just get him angry and he has joined the dark side. I expected more than this simplification of the force after ESB. To me, even the little foreshadowing scene in the cave sequence in ESB had more depth than all these throne room scenes together.
This had all worked much, much better if we had actually seen any traces of conflict within Luke, but as it stands he enters the picture as the white knight already and is dead set against killing Vader, he only senses good within his father, instead Vader/Anakin is the one that is conflicted. I did enjoy these scenes but I do think they seem much better to some than they actually are because everything else we are shown is quite mediocre. The space battle is pretty, I give you that.
But that scene in ESB is just a simplistic, if you kill Vader then you become Vader.
The main issue is that they never really believably get Luke all that angry. "Oh we'll turn your sister instead" and then he just flies off the handle for no apparant reason. This is where there is room for improvement.