Easterhay said:
Burdokva said:
The OT was never solely about the redemption of Darth Vader, or even about Luke becoming a hero.
Well, the OT is about Luke becoming a hero. I don't know why you think it isn't.
See, wanting to stop your pregnant wife from dying is pretty emotional, especially when compared to the idea you posit, about wanting a bunch of spaceships, which wouldn't have had any emotional impact at all.
Added bold for clarity. See again the "solely" part (or maybe my English isn't clear enough; "only" then).
Regarding the "emotional impact" of Anakin's fall...
Each to his own. For someone like me who's interested (and studied) history and politics, this was a cringe inducing and ridiculous reason that had no basis in reality. Because we're full of people wanting vast military and political power to save their wives at childbirth, right?
People who want power lust over it because they want to establish empires, legacies, to rebuild societies and even the world to their own vision; people who are usually idealists (even if their ideas are terribly flawed) and put their ideas before their loved ones.
People who want to protect their loved ones generally try to put them out of harms way; if anything, they don't go on a quest and attempt to prevent death itself. I really can't establish an emotional connection to a completely delusional character who obsesses over his wife dying at childbirth given their miraculous technology.
Sorry, but even in a world of faster-than-light starships and space wizards this sounds implausible, to say the least.
Not to mention it's completely different to the Darth Vader character of the OT.