skygalskywalker:
geoffreytoday:
skygalskywalker:
geoffreytoday:
skygalskywalker:
“You was added in because its a way of finishing off the entire series. The idea was that your inner person would go back to where we left it off. When he turned to the dark side, when you got burned up and everything. But when you come back to the good side of the force, its your former persona that survives, not the Darth Vader persona.”
George Lucas to Hayden Christensen.
That’s just all sorts of bullshit George. The real reason you did it was because you could and it was just another way to force your prequels on Star Wars fans. It was a slap in the face to Star Wars fans, and a slap in the face to Sebastian Shaw. Nothing was improved by this change, but the final moments of RotJ were lessened by it.
See this kindof of bs you just spat out is why he sold out to disney in the first damn place. Prequel haters like this
See, you call it BS, but the thing is, If George had never made the change, you wouldn’t notice. You wouldn’t be sitting around on tumblr posting about how they should have replaced the original actor with some footage of Hayden Christensen (that wasn’t even specifically shot for this purpose, yet another indication that it was just a last minute decision made because they could).
It’s not about prequel hate. If we’re going by George’s own logic here, the Anakin we should be seeing here is the one that redeemed himself. The one who died in the arms of Luke Skywalker on the Death Star is the last version of Anakin Skywalker as Anakin Skywalker, and therefore the version we should see as a Force Spirit at the end.
This is, of course, forgetting that according to the prequels Anakin shouldn’t be there at all, because he was never taught the special technique that allows Jedi to return from the netherworld of the force as a force ghost. According to the prequels it was Qui-Gon who discovered how to do it, and passed that knowledge on to Yoda, who then passed it on to Obi-Wan while he was in exile on Tatooine. Anakin was never taught, and therefore shouldn’t be there. If we’re taking the prequels into account.
because anakin at the end of ep 6 still had some evil left in him! just because he saved his whiney ass kid doesnt mean he still didnt have some evil in him. Like stated above He changed it because THAT was the last look of anakin before he joined the darkside. That was the look he had when they said Anakin Skywalker was dead and that darth vader rose. At the end of ep 6 he was still pretty much vader. Vader died at the end of ep 6 with a little hope of Anakin coming back but of course he died without his breathing thing on. Anakin died over 20 years ago in star wars. So thats why its the younger! Get over the fact that he replaced him.
I am not required to agree with the decisions George made. I am not required to “get over it”. You are not required to agree with me. If you like it this way, I’m pleased for you. For me, all the changes George has made to the original trilogy have been for the worse. George took something away from me, and I don’t have to excuse him. I find your reasoning for the change, regurgitated from the half-assed explanation George came up with, to be flawed and poorly thought out. If it works for you that’s fine, it does not work for me. And as I mentioned, it ignores the fact that according to George’s own rules that he established in the prequels, Anakin shouldn’t have been there at all. It took years of meditation and communing through the force for Yoda and Qui-Gon to make contact. Anakin was never taught how, and yet somehow he appears as a fully fledged force spirit mere hours after his death. It’s poorly thought through.