god but i am so annoyed at the star wars prequels? how have people dealt with this for a decade??? knowing that it would be so easily fixed?Ā
the story of how anakin skywalker fell to the dark side when there was so much good in him couldāve been amazing, and the changes needed to make it so arenāt even that big. give me an anakin thatās actually damaged from being a slave his whole life; an anakin that latches onto padme not because she isĀ ābeautifulā but because of her compassion, strengths and beliefs; give me obi wan meeting anakin w/ his master and actually bonding with him, agreeing about his potential even if he doesnāt quite believe an old prophecy; give me padmeās simmering fury and protectiveness over a child who fell into slavery which she thinks is disgusting but she canāt concentrate on that right now because her whole planet comes first. give me an anakin that gets to react to the jediās fears of him; give me the child that goes from being a slave to being sworn to an order thatās strict and tells him no; donāt fear, donāt form bonds, be better. give me anakin and obi wan bonding scenes. give me palpatine actually being subtle in his manipulations. have padme and anakin keep interacting through the years and anakin falls into slow love with her without realizing, because she is justice and compassion and strength.
Ā you can keep so many scenes if you just tweak them. so many plot points still work with some background added to it. give me anakin asking if he could see (/free) his mother and beind denied by the council because jedis canāt have connections, anakin, you canāt be attached. have obi wan reluctantly agree that they canāt do it. have him still have the dreams and still protect padme, but when she catches him dreaming and he tells her the truth (that he dreams of his mother in trouble and heās not supposed to see her but he canāt stop thinking of her, how he abandoned her to that lifeā) and sheās the one who says they should go to her. because padme never believed in slavery and never wanted to leave her behind in the first place but she had bigger problems then, and maybe she feels guilty about that. have anakin realize he loves her then. and sheās watched him grow and watched him toy the line but sheās not there yet, and he goes to his mother and fails, thatās fine, thatās fine, but he doesnāt kill the entire camp. heās not there yet. he does it by the code, but then he comes back to padme and he tells her the truth; he wanted them dead. he wanted them all dead. he wanted to kill them with his own hands. she tells him the same thingā that anger is human, that itās normal to feelā and he says he is a jedi. he must be better. and then he admits; he still wants them dead. he is unsatisfied with the justice he got. heās scared of how much he wants them dead. isnāt he a jedi? isnāt he good? and padme tells him he is so good. he is allowed to have feelings, she tells him. anger and fear donāt lead to bad things by themselves, letting them control you does. he tells her he loves her and she sees the man he could be and says they canāt. but she wants to, too.Ā
give me a padme that is just as annoyed at the jedi way as she is any other injustice in the world.give me an anakin that struggles with his feelings and not being allowed to feel them. give me an obi wan that doesnāt understand that struggle and those feelings because heās never hated, not that much, but anakin has hated his whole life. he has been angry and afraid. give me a palpatine that says things just like padme does; that validates anakin when he has feelings he doesnāt want to confess to obi wan because he is just that much on the side of the jedi order that tells him to just not. give me a obi wan that has failed a friend; a brother, for real, not by convenience of absence but by failing to question his teachings. give me an audience who can sympathize with anakin and can almost fall for palpatine too because he isnāt so obvious the jedis shouldāve seen him coming ages ago.
give me an obi wan that listens to count dookuās warnings and feels torn, not because he doubts the ways of the jedi, but because heās seen what those ways can do. give me padme and anakin in a slow burn love, with no wedding but with careful stolen moments through time where they let themselves feel, where they both love each otherās passion. where they are both a bit afraid of what it could all mean. give me a yoda that feels actual fucking shame when he realizes his speeches about fear and attachments and feelings is what drove anakin right to palpatineās waiting treacherous words. give me a yoda with a reason to exile himself and to not want to tell luke the truth; not because the truth is hard for luke or might tempt him, but because the truth is hard for YODA to admit to.
anakin falling to the dark side out of fear of being powerless to save padmeā to save his familyā just like he failed to save his mother works, tbh. butĀ give me a padme who doesnāt die in childbirth because she ācouldnāt go onā, like she didnāt have two kids, like she wouldnāt have fought tooth and nail to bring back democracy and been the first to lead the rebellion? give me a padme that doesnāt die in childbirth and raises leia for a few years so her fucking comments about her mom makes sense. give me bonding scenes between anakin and people, and superimpose that with the jedis telling him no. you canāt.Ā
have your audience start to agree with the dark side too, and then when theyāre starting to think darth vader was fully justified pull the rug out from under them. have him go too far. it doesnāt have to be child murder, because thatās easy. thatās cheap. but have him be the direct cause of the jedi falling so easily; betraying them from afar because he knew all these people and their weaknesses and he is giving them away for one person. have obi wan and him fight with legitimate feelings;Ā āwhat youāre doing is wrongā and darth vader asks why? when he has control. itāll be better. heāll fix it. and obi wan realizes he failed him because anakin still deals in absolutes, still deals in how slavery hit him; the people who can do anything are the ones with power. the ones who own things. is it greed? it is fear and anger and hate, and that turns to greed, sometimes. sure.Ā
give me a vader who drives away padme but searches for her because he wants her and his child; doesnāt she understand? she doesnāt, she canāt, she has never wanted one person to rule all. give me a padme who, like luke, still believes in anakin skywalker but who never gets the chance to say it because the rebellion is snuffed out. give me a padme who fakes losing her child so that anakin doesnāt know he has two because she canāt while he is vader. while he is under palpatine. give me a padme who dies fighting, tired and sad but still ultimately hoping for anakin to come back. to be good.
give me an anakin who thinks heās lost everything and who hates the emperor for it but whoās given up; who lets himself be everyoneās fucking darth lapdog because what is the point? until he realizes luke is alive and then, then he thinks, he has something again. something worth fighting for.Ā
give me a story where i understand and nearly sympathize with anakin skywalker, where i feel for obi wanās loss of his pupil, where i see the good luke saw in his dad from the get go but also what caused him to be so twisted. give me the start of the empire as slow and methodical, dark and the result of both sides of the force pushing and pulling instead of weird political moves that makes no sense. where i understand why padme fell in love with him and believed in him. where the jedi order meant well but was so obviously fucked up they were doomed from the start.Ā
give me the story these characters goddamn deserved
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