the thing is that it worked, initially, when it was just the PT, to understand how anakin and vader are theoretically the same guy, because largely they have similar manners of speaking; anakinās less formal, definitely, but heās not quite informal. that stiffness christensen got lambasted for is really easy to imagine becoming darth āi am altering the deal, pray i donāt alter it furtherā vader, which was somewhat the point. that was the idea behind it, and even if it meant anakinās flirting in AOTC is bad space shakespeare, it still works for the universe itās in. how else is darth āwhat is thy bidding my masterā vader supposed to fucking flirt, you think he speaks like a normal person? āi am haunted by that kiss you should have never given meā fits the vocal pattern lucas established for the guy in the OT, even if itās missing some of the flair, and the intense menace that james earl jones brings to the table in the OT. james earl jones knew how to give a voice an edge, is what iām saying.
fundamentals are there, though, and that makes sense, because heās nineteen. the same holds true for revenge of the sith - anakinās still talks more stiff and over-the-top than not, cough cough āhis fate will be the same as oursā cough cough. he uses contractions on the occasion but itās equally likely that he wonāt, and heās not constantly awkward - neither was anakin in AOTC - but mostly he follows that same old school typical star wars film dialogue, and that overly formal manner of speech lends itself very easily to going, well, yeah, this is a guy who is going to be darth vader. a somewhat dry sense of humor tracks (āapology accepted, captain needaā the bitch says, over the corpse of the guy he just strangled because he threw a temper tantrum, and anakinās āif youāll excuse me, masterā before he throws himself off of a speeder like a bitch) and a tendency for exaggeration (āyou are beaten. it is useless to resist. donāt let yourself be destroyed as obi-wan didā and āmy heart is beatingā¦ hoping that kiss will not become a scar. you are in my very soul, tormenting meā have similar levels of drama, which is maximum), thatās all par the course. like it or not, it works, reasonably well.
and then thereās anakin in fucking TCW, who matt lanter was told to play like a mixture of han and luke, but the dialogue for the show wasnāt even written to mimic either of those characters well at all. because, again, star wars has a specific kind of dialogue it prefers, and itās a lot more old fashioned. anakin talks like a regular, normal guy in TCW, all of that stiltedness that was part-n-parcel for a guy introduced to audiences everywhere as an expressionless cyborg is gone, itās all very loosey-goosey dime-a-dozen action hero fare. which isnāt inherently bad, itās just that it doesnāt make any sense. āthe things you do to get me aloneā is not flirting as conceived by a guy who thought āif you are suffering as much as i am, please tell meā was a normal thing people say to other people. his jokes arenāt the wry sarcasm vader or anakin in the PT use, itās just - obi-wan related bickering, with none of the specific diction used in AOTC and ROTS. when they throw in nods to anakinās Dark Future TM they miss the mark, because TCW anakin saying things like āmost impressiveā doesnāt sound like him at all - itās notable because itās not him, when the point is that itās supposed to fit. it does not. how am i supposed to RECONCILE this.
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