Tbf Obi had just seen the holos of the kids being murdered by his assistant so understandably pissed.
Maybe Anakin had a reason for slaughtering them? Obi-Wan should at least listen first before being a drama queen.
Yeah, Anakin gotta die after that.
i'm still so mad about that story line. 3 films worth of plot and it feels like George forgor that Anakin has to become Darth Vader at the end. So he fast forwarded a whole corruption arc, which then made Anakin look like a moron who got swayed to the dark side and abandoned his moral compass & all his friends in the span of days because some clearly dodgy guy told him "you see the Jedi council Anakin? they're hiding something,,, clearly the most optimal path forward is to become evil, go kill some children"
To be fair, he did also kill an entire village of Tusken Raiders, including women and children, one movie before that. It's just that those movies are so weird and disjointed that this doesn't feel like a piece of character building that later pays off in the third movie, but rather a weird fever dream that you forget about almost entirely by the time Attack of the Clones is finished
Yeah it took the US 8 years, Anakin did it over a long weekend. Boom gottem.
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I feel the same way, but the Clone Wars animated series really changed my opinion on what Lucas was going for with Anakin's fall. The movies didn't execute on the idea all that well, but when you add in the extra background the Clone Wars added, I think it made a lot more sense.
The novelization of the third movie is also great and does a lot more to show anakins internal dilemma and psychological state.
Like, the guy was having prophetic nightmares of his wife dying night after night and one of his closest mentors (number 2 behind obiwan) offers a way to ensure those terrible visions never come to pass.
I especially hated the “Anakin killing kids” scene. It’s not very realistic that he turns in a few days to a child killer, maybe he could step aside while to clones do it, killing them with his lightsaber was too cartoonishly evil for me.
Idk something about that description seems a bit too real given current events
so anakin kneels in front of monster mash and pledges loyalty to the graveyard smash
Well they did show him love his mother a bunch and even having weird dreams about her so when Palpatine let's him know he can save her by learning the ways of the dark side he does everything because that was his main motivator all along
yea the motivation was good (story telling wise), but the time it took him to become corrupted was just too fast. Even if in universe it took longer than a couple of days, on our screen the whole arc was maybe 15 minutes
He's standing like a guy who just banged your wife, how was Anakin supposed to react?
You see that scene where they’re going up to her apartment, to do the protection thing?
She was excited to see Obi, barely remembered ani (and it wasn’t until jar jar got all happy like the drunken uncle you’re almost never allowed to see calling him by name…)
Yeah. Obi was totally with Padme.
Also that deleted scene with her family and the emphatic “we’re not dating”.
And those straight up incel pick up lines….
anakin totally dominated her mind to get with her. (And the terrible lines working… was lowkey genius,)
And Luke would definitely have fallen for the dark side if the Emperor hadn't gloated "good, good, you're falling for the dark side" like an imbecile.
"Each stanza kinda rhymes with the last one... [grimaces] ...hopefully it'll work."
Lotta prequel hate in this thread
It's a Star Wars community. Whether it's the prequels or the sequels, it won't matter. You're still gonna have a bunch of people going pathetically rabid over it as if it's the be all end all.
Nobody hates Star Wars more than Star Wars fans
