[CaptainCrunch]

I'm probably going to have to go back and watch TCW again. I mean as the series got older we got so many proto Vader moments.


Anakin torturing Poggle the Lesser
Anakin through the whole Slaver arc including standing back and watching the Slaver Queen being executed.
Beating Padme's former boyfriend almost to death.
Outright murdering people with no mercy.


The whole basis of Anakin is that he was emotionally unstable. Attachments to his friends were everything, he could never let them go, and he'd do anything to save them.


In the Father, Son, Daughter arch, he was willing to free a great evil no matter what the cost to end the war.


I've said it all along. The Vader that we saw in Kenobi, wasn't Vader, that was all Anakin. Driven probably by grief over Padme's death and the loss of his children, rage at Obi-Wan for crippling him. Proabably a lot of self loathing. And hatred at being seduced by Sidious.



We finally saw the death of Anakin, I mean he was driven deep during the conversation with Obi-Wan, when he said that he killed Anakin Skywalker. I believe that happened the minute that Obi slashed his mask and Anakin was forced to not only look at the monster that he had become, but accept that he was the monster that was Vader. But the final step over that threshold, was again provided by Sidious, when he told him that his obsession with Kenobi made him not stronger but weaker. Revenge, Rage, hatred are absolutely a tool for the Sith to call on and command the Dark side of the Force. But at the end of the day, a Sith is a Force User that wants to remove all of the chains that make you weak. want to acquire power, and why? Because they believe in a higher notion, and a higher mission. They want order and justice and to rule.



Anakin didn't die on Mustafar or even for 10 years after his transformation. He "died" when Obi-Wan defeated him and Vader realized that Anakin was weak and he had to evolve.