Lucas is establishing much like in Tolkien did in The Lord of the Rings, that people attempt to use evil or the dark side in order to achieve what they appear to be the greater good. It isn't merely that they want to do evil, but it begins with good intentions, whether saving the White City from Sauron or saving Padme from death.
Before the Prequel Trilogy, however, this principle was not the case. Look at most of the Star Wars-inspired comics. The perception of the people who go to the darkside is that they merely want power plain and simple, or that they were deceived, or that they just get mad. I mean, look at the Tales of the Jedi series. Of the people who went to the dark side, such as Exar Kun and Ulic Qel Droma, it wasn't about good intentions. Exar Kun just wanted to go boom boom instead of pip pip, and Ulic was deceived... utterly. In fact, he was tortured into going into the dark side. Same with other Jedi in the comic book series: others wanted nothing of the Dark side and then Exar Kun used shards of crystals to force good guys to become evil
Thus, people expected Anakins fall to be something along these lines: Anakin is a good guy, but then he gets pushed over the edge by Palpatine with a few whispers in his ear like "use your anger" and such, and then he goes all out mad-crazy on Obi Wan Kenobi, all simply because he lost control of his temper.
I mean, look at the Tales of the Jedi series.
I mean, look at the Tales of the Jedi series.
Ayatollah Krispies wrote:I own every single issue of the Tales of the Jedi comics. Haven't been able to get through any of the miniseries yet. Holy CRAP does Kevin Anderson suck.
VT-16 wrote:Thanks to ROTS, I now like the whole "plan" for making Luke turn in ROTJ. Since Palpatine doesn´t have the same connection to Luke as he had with Anakin, he really needs Vader to help convince the boy why he should join them.
In ROTS, Palpatine represented both a father figure and a means to make things better. In ROTJ, Vader provides the father figure while Palpatine only has the promise of power. Combined, they could tempt Luke the same way Anakin was tempted.
To be honest, most of the "temptation scenes" in the OT fell abit flat for me back in the day, that´s why I think the PT now adds a new layer of understanding to the process of joining evil and makes the saga as a whole better for it.
stan Marsh wrote:
I pretty much agree with everything you said except that palpatine doesn't wanrt to destroy anything. He definitely wants to destroy the jedi, even if he thought he could lie peaceably beside them which he did for a while, he wanted them completely wiped out and all memory of them
I pretty much agree with everything you said except that palpatine doesn't wanrt to destroy anything. He definitely wants to destroy the jedi, even if he thought he could lie peaceably beside them which he did for a while, he wanted them completely wiped out and all memory of them
stan Marsh wrote:Yeah, you're right about that I forgot to qualify that statement![]()
Of course he wants the jedi dead, but I think he would prefer to preserve as much of the infrastructure and people of the rest of the galaxy that he can. Thanks for calling me out on that.
MannyOrtez wrote:I think that since these movies are so largely dealing with metaphors, sometimes GL makes certain decisions to prove a point, such as leaving Palpatine as pure evil. Like you said, many fans erroneously thought that Anakin would be predisposed to evil. And in real life, yes, maybe evil people have an evil disposition from a very young age. But since GL is dealing with larger, broader themes and metaphors, that's not what he is trying to do with Anakin. Likewise, Palpatine I think is made to remain as the pure embodiment of evil.
Dooku of course isn't as black and white as Palpy, and I bet his turn would have some similarities to Anakin's. His seduction might make an interesting spin off book, cartoon, something, not sure if its been touched upon yet.
Sith 77 wrote:When you think about the Jedi philosophy, and I know many of us jokingly see Yoda as a spiritual mentor of sorts, it makes a lot of sense. If you remove your desires and attachments, you will make better decisions in your life. You won't succomb to anger as quickly, you won't be greedy, you won't harm others because all you care about is your self. By freeing your mind from the constraints of the material things around you, including your own physical form, you can begin to live a perfect life.
Bertok The Bad wrote:Hello all. First time poster. To quote some wisdom from Dr. Joel Fleischman: "Love is selfless, not possesive. If you truly love someone, you have no desire to possess them. You don't keep them." Love and compassion in their purity never lead to attachment. Yeah Yeah?
Drunken Master Kenobi wrote:If the Jedi had one problem in the PT it was: faith. That is, everyone but Qui-gon had it*. The only Jedi to have faith in Anakin besides Qui-gon was Luke -- and it's no coincidence that Luke is the Jedi who redeems Anakin, ultimately bringing about the restoration everyone so sorely needed.
Drunken Master Kenobi wrote:No. Compassion for other people is not an attachment. Arguably. It's not in the SW world, anyway.Der Graf wrote:Isn't it all about love and therefore compassion for other people and therefore attachments?When did the Jedi display a lack of compassion? [Obi-wan chiding Anakin about putting the mission over Padme is not it.]I got the impression the Jedi failed because of their strict "buddist" views and lack of compassion.
The 'Code' was not a problem for the Jedi so much as it was a problem for their most volitile member. Their fates are tied, however; Anakin's failure was in part the Jedi's failure, but make no mistake: Anakin chose poorly.
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diVe wrote:thecolorsblend wrote:putting Anakin in physical danger for replacement space ship parts, etc.
Watto - "You knew the boy was going to win! Somehow you knew it!"
Qui-Gon knew Anakin was going to safely win. He used the Force to sense his safe victory.
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