ZkinandBonez said:
Smashing the bridge of a Star Destroyer however just seems a tad silly and reckless to me, and as I mentioned, a bit too obviously taken from ROTS.
I don’t think he meant to do it but sure.
I probably would have preferred him to maybe choke someone over a tiny mistake or something like that, or maybe just growl at people like he did at the end of ESB (pre-SE).Something to visualize/illustrate his anger without smashing stuff around him.
I would rather him hack someone to bits with his lightsaber or break someone’s neck. Something more brutal to show that this isn’t generic Vader rage but something more
Had it been a novel I think I’d simply preferred a description of his frustration/anger/etc.
That with some kind of outburst would have been nice.
I also feel that it’s very important that Vader at this point in his life is pretty emotionless and machine-like. He has after all been Vader for almost 20 years at this point. And keep in mind that this is the Vader that killed his old master and friend without any hesitation what-so-ever.
He hated Obi-Wan though…
Finding out about Luke should be not so much an explosion of feelings, but rather a tiny crack in his emotional barrier which gradually grows over the course of the next-few-years/movies.
If anything finding out Ahsoka was alive would do this minus the gradual growing. Family bonds are different.
Even in ESB, a few years later he’s still emotionally cold enough to cut his own son’s hand off,
That’s true but he had to because Luke wouldn’t give up.
And when Luke actually drops into the abyss his reaction is surprisingly neutral, disappointment at most.
I think he knew fully that Luke would survive somehow and his reaction was just that. Disappointment.
It’s not really until ROTJ that he’s starting to show real emotions. That crack has had plenty of time to grow in those years.
Not really. His reaction to the Millennium Falcon escaping at the end of ESB where he turns away then looks back to empty space only to finally walk off is actually telling. Not only that he didn’t even kill the Imperial that failed him. On a side note I can’t believe that scene isn’t up on youtube.