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Originally posted by MJK@May 20 2005, 01:53 PM
I saw the film last night and I agree that it was the best of the first three. There were still some stupid parts that made me roll my eyes but all in all it was good.
The scene where Anakin decides to turn to the dark side, it seemed to happen a little quick. I wasn't convinced during that scene at all. He seems to make up his mind way too quickly that he will indeed become the apprentice of the sith lord.
Maybe its just me but that's what bugged me a little.
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Actually the book had great justification in it about his turn to the darkside, and it was explained to Anakin by Palpatine
Jedi gain power through understanding
The Sith gain understanding through power.
Also while the Jedi look outward for thier power, which benefit everyone
The Sith gain power and understanding by looking within and listening to thier baser emotions and instincts, thus serving themselves and no other.
So when Anakin was concerned about his position on the Council and about protecting his wife from death, he was already pretty much on the road to the dark side.
Its also quite cool, that the Jedi consider themselves a tool of the Force, while the Sith wish to control the force.
you combine these factors together, and its easy to see why Anakin slid to the darkside so quickly.
He wanted the recognition for himself and his deeds . . . which fueled his ambition.
He wasn't named to the council as a Master . . this fueled his anger.
The council wanted him to spy on his own parent figure which fueled his sense of betrayal.
He feared that he would lose the only this that he had that was special, in his wife.
In the book there's a scene after he murders the seperatists, and he talking to Sideous, where in his mind he's thinking "I'm more powerful then you, you have nothing to offer me but your place"
But he missed the trick of the darkside and didn't realize it until he was in the Vader armour.
If you look inward and only serve yourself, in the end the only thing that you will have left is yourself, because everything else is inconsequential, thats why he was willing to murder his wife, and the jedi kids.
and in the end, he was alone, but he had to serve Palpatine, because his vaunted powers of the force had pretty much been taken from him in the burning. And in his mind Palpatine was the only one who could accept what he had become, and what he had done.
So he initially went to the darkside out of fear and ambition, and then he stayed there because he was enslaved by his fear and ambition, and Palpatine his father figure was the only person who could understand what he was doing.
If you have seen the movie, read the book, it what the movie in a lot of ways should have been