Hello again philosopher of all things Anakin Skywalker. I once again ask for your guidance. The part in that clone wars episode with obi wan and satine aboard the yacht where tal merrick is all “who’s going to strike me down and brand themselves a cold blooded killer” only for Anakin to backstab him and they play the imperial march motif to show it as an “Anakin darkside” moment. But to me it never sat right as a “darkside” moment, it always felt like a “I don’t have time to think I need to act now” moment of anakins poor impulse control. Like he said “he was going to blow up the ship”. I’d like to hear your thoughts on it. Thank you and keep up the amazing work.
JSJSNsnsenrnx I don't think I'm a Anakin expert jddndndndn but oh well, like most of TCW, it's played for cheap laughs.
My thoughts? Well, it managed to do what it intended, it made me snort, and then roll my eyes. I don't really take it too seriously because it's TCW, I only accept it as canon on very, very wide strokes, and even then, and not all of it.
TCW feels like a dramatized version made in universe, tbh. I like that take that is actually a show within the universe, that would fit nicely with the narration at the beginning of every episode.
But if I had to take it seriously, well yes, the biggest problem with TCW! Anakin is that he's way too...Cheerful about murder. We all know Anakin is violent, but he doesn't enjoy it, in fact he constantly beats himself over and over the fact.
Murder doesn't really equal to dark side, either. Like, yeah is bad. But, dark side encompasses much more than that. And then again, dark side is ALSO different to sith. Which is a whole religion/philosophy on its own. Not everything bad equals to dark side and not everything dark side equals sith. Like yes, you could argue there were other ways of dealing with Tail but, that's beyond the point.
And let's be honest, Obi-Wan wouldn't care about that, he was indeed going to blow up the ship and dude almost killed his Situationship/Not-GF. Imagine if in Geonosis Obi-Wan had stopped to be judgemental- Oh, wait. Okay, Obi-Wan being judgemental is accurate, but not because the TCW narrative of oooooo dark side oooooo he's Vader, guysssss.
Obi-Wan would be judgemental simply because he gets some thrill out of annoying Anakin. But Obi-Wan wouldn't care about some guy calling him a killer, is Obi-Wan, he doesn't care what the villain yaps about.
But I think you get an idea. When put in context, a lot of TCW stuff makes no sense, especially because again, is played for cheap laughs. Not to say the movies are serious btw, because SW is very campy and silly, but honestly a lot of the funny bits come from the misfortune of the characters. TCW's comedy relies a lot on random OOCness and little sarcastic quips "-rolling eyes-" "I told you so", "saying the obvious ", style.
Ah, sorry for rambling jsjskss, I don't have much to say besides yeah. This is one of the least problematic things Anakin does, maybe if Dave wasn't obsessed with playing the imperial march so much when Anakin does anything, it would be less eye rolling.
