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Bingowings
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How you pictured Anakin pre-PT
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9-Aug-2015, 7:07 AM

ATMachine said:

sunglassesatnite said:

How I pictured Anakin pre-PT:

As a wise, pragmatic, passionate starfighter pilot and Jedi Knight who was seduced by the Dark Side by a force more powerful than himself

How I would not have pictured Anakin, EVER, pre PT:

As a pre-teen (or twenty-something) empty-headed idiot of low birth and low character who was "drafted" into the Jedi based on a "hunch" by a malcontent who was himself not highly regarded

 "Low birth"? I didn't realize that heroes born into poverty weren't really heroes somehow. :P

This is the problem when you apply a fable code to a modern film series. Most fables were formulated in Feudal times so being of an aristocratic background was essential, even if that origin is hidden. The folk hero Robin Hood becomes the displaced noble Robert of Locksley. Arthur is the hidden King that will unite the land raised as the squire of a minor Knight. Cinderella is the true inheritor of her father's fortune. Perseus and Jesus are sons of Gods.

This doesn't chime well with a modern audience raised to believe in the myth of meritocracy. That anyone can if they apply the effort achieve remarkable things. The American Dream.

Arguably the pre-ROTJ Force was such a merit based power. The reason we don't have Jedi is we don't have Jedi masters to school us in the Force. Even a farm boy on a planet in the middle of nowhere can become a Jedi.

In ROTJ the power of inheritance is introduced and Luke's sister is a Princess but she is an adopted Princess so she might be still 'low born'.

In the PT Luke and Leia are the offspring of royalty and a demi-God.We have gone from the age of Aquarius back to the age of Dragons. Luke is no longer Uri Geller with Kung-Fu moves, now he's a royal prince with magic blood.