Anakin Skywalker Character Analysis [Part 3C] (Best Star Wars Character of All Time Series)

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1:49 I think Anakin's reaction in this moment is entirely understandable. Imagine your significant other asked you to use your connections to meddle with the job of someone you see as a father. It's not like Anakin to betry the people he loves for ideals and concepts like democracy or the "greater good". Even if it was to save the republic, it's a line Anakin wouldn't cross.

[@SpFlash1523]

Yep. Anakin, for better or worse, places his faith in people over ideals.

[@EricGraham94]

@@SpFlash1523 and that’s what makes Anakin all the more an inverse from Luke - their worldview and view of people. In the OT, Luke Skywalker is very heavily opinionated. In ANH, he sees Leia as the ideal woman, Obi-Wan from the crazy hermit to a respectable mentor, Han Solo as a selfish asshole, and above all… Vader as the ultimate evil in the galaxy. But in ESB, he’s very opinionated of not just Yoda as a crazy gremlin, but more importantly… of himself. ESB tests Luke’s worldview every time - especially with the revelation that he possesses the blood of Vader as his son. That’s when everything he’s ever believed in was false. That’s why Obi-Wan believes that the truth is often what WE make of it. But in ROTJ, we see Luke who’s become more confident in himself because he’s accepted his capacity for darkness (as seen in his all black robes). But he’s also grown to see Vader as his father and of course his friends as people fighting for the good of the galaxy. Luke goes from having a very opinionated and limited sense of the world around him to having one of possibilities, including the possibility that his father can be redeemed. Anakin Skywalker, on the other hand, has a very idealistic (even naive) sense of the world around him. Despite living in the backwater planet of Tatooine as a slave, his driving force is his big heart. He’ll go the extra mile for those in need: especially his mother, Padme, and Qui-Gon. He’s even idealized the Jedi as these mythological figures of peace and justice who could do no wrong. But as we’ve seen in AOTC and ROTS, as a man of action, Anakin grows to resent the Council for giving into bureaucratic policy with the Republic and following due procedure when he’d rather end injustice and take action now. That’s why he is constantly at odds with the Council. He doesn’t see them as defenders of justice anymore. That’s why he only trusts Padme and Palpatine, who seem to encourage his goals… but the difference is Palpatine constantly strokes his ego and fills the role of the father figure Anakin lost through Qui-Gon. Slowly but surely Anakin’s worldview becomes more jaded and cynical to the point that he loses faith in everyone.

[@SpFlash1523]

​@@EricGraham94 That's why he told Obi-Wan on Mustafar, "If you're not with me, then you're my enemy."

[@EricGraham94]

@@SpFlash1523 Exactly! When it came to the Jedi, as a child, Anakin saw the Jedi as these infallible icons of truth, peace and justice - something he ends up internalizing for himself as his life's expectations. Fast forward to AOTC and ROTS - Anakin is slowly losing faith in the Jedi Order (particularly the Council) for playing politics all the time and not taking action as fast as he'd like. He ends up beginning to see the Jedi as just people who allow injustice to happen, about as evil as the people who COMMIT injustices.

[@try-w5s]

One of the awesome things as well is how it's through this tale that palptine tells, that annikins perspective on the darkside changes, he begins to think that the darkside isn't corruptible, it's just down to how one chooses to wield it, how can the darkside be so bad if it can save those he loves from dying, it sounds more pure if anything, think about the amount of deaths he could prevent. If anything the Jedi are despicable for keeping this power hidden when they could of used it to save so many lives in the clone wars from annikins point of view.

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Damn I was wondering when he’d upload again

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[@TheKeyser94]

I wouldn't call what Anakin have for Padme, love, more is an obsession, and a replacement, Anakin had deep mommy issues, and since her mother die, Padme have been a replacement for that, and Padme isn't being honest either, she not starting a family with Anakin out of love, but because she want a way out of the life of a politicians and her duties, their affair was doomed from the star, because it began by false pretences, Padme should have seen the red flags as soon she had seen that Anakin have a complete different ideology than hers.

[@SpFlash1523]

I think Anakin genuinely loved and cared for Padme as a person and as an old friend, but in his confused state of feelings and uncertainty, (unfortunately but naturally) it influenced and infatuated him to have desires that would be to his detriment, and it slowly took him over; hence the dark side. I was in pretty much the same position as Anakin not long ago and was fortunate enough to take a step back and recognize the reality of the situation and my own state of mind, and what was the wise thing to do. I unironically let go and moved on. "If you're suffering as much as I am, please tell me." "Believe me, I wish that I could just wish away my feelings, but I can't."