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   On 2018-11-04 10:08:00 +0000, Mike Powell said:   
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   >> There's nothing wrong with the Prequel Trilogy, other than in people's   
   >> own opinions (plus of course the Politically Correct whiners who don't   
   >> like stereotypes that aren't even there!).   
   >>   
   >> The Prequel Tilogy does (mostly) fit with the story, George Lucas did   
   >   
   > When I watched the original trilogy, I could feel some compassion towards   
   > Anikan at the end because, based on what all had been said and done, you   
   > could imagine him at one time being a likeable character.   
   >   
   > The prequel trilogy showed him as a very young boy (OK) and then as a   
   > mostly unlikeable, spoiled, full-of-himself young man who went right into   
   > being Darth Vader.  In my mind, there was never a period in those movies   
   > where he was a truly heroic figure.   
   >   
   > If they were trying to only tell the story of the origin of Leia and Luke,   
   > they could have done that in one movie.  However, the premise was to tell   
   > that story as well as the downfall of their father.  The prequels fail   
   > horribly there because Anikan was never really a character that anyone   
   > would feel much empathy for... when he got left on that volcano planet, my   
   > only feelings were that he got what he deserved all along and that any   
   > goodness the kids got was not from him or "The Force," but instead from   
   > their Mother.   
   >   
   > It was like GL and the writers figured that we already knew he was destined   
   > for evil so they really did not put any effort into making his character   
   > seem otherwise.  He does not match up to what was said of him in the   
   > original movies at all.   
   >   
   > The cartoon "Clone Wars" movie and TV series did a lot better job of   
   > portraying Anikan as an heroic figure than GL's prequels did.  I have to   
   > watch that movie between II and III (whenever I watch them) just so I can   
   > believe that he was not always a jerk.   
      
   The Prequel movies are only six hours in total, trying to cover about   
   20 years of Anakin's life. Trying to fit all that in is impossible.   
   They weren't really meant to be showing Anakin as "heroic", simply   
   showing his rise from street urchin to Jedi and then his turn to the   
   Dark Side.   
      
   The Prequels did show Anakin doing "heroic" things: saving Padme from   
   an assassination attempt, trying to rescue his mother from the   
   Sandpeople, etc., even trying to save Padme from death during   
   childbirth. The whole point of the Trilogy is really that he was   
   someone trying to do good who continually failed, and that those   
   failures and his insecurities pushed him into the Dark Side.   
      
   Anakin's fall to the Dark Side was not because he was "spoiled" or   
   "full-of-himself". It was because he was trying to protect Padme. It   
   was because he was too old when he started training. It was because he   
   lost his mother (twice - once when he left her behind and again when   
   she died), which most Jedi never know. And the 'final straw' was losing   
   Padme.   
      
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