ST Anakin Skywalker in the New Films

Wouldn't it be ironic if the "call to the Light" Kylo Ren spoke of came from none other than Anakin himself?

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I don't think it's ironic at all, in fact, I kind of always saw it that way. Who else would call a dark sider back to the light but someone who was once one themselves? Plus we all know Anakin has an incredible soft spot for his family. Think if you had a family member that you loved going down a evil or bad path you yourself once trod, wouldn't you do everything in your power to set them right?

Jennifer

 

Sorry heavily disagree, if one looks too much into things, they can come up with story faults on their own. With only Ep.7 out of the way, there is nothing that prevents an Anakin force ghost from happening.

Where was the proof and demand for Luke? You mean the Internet? It's really the most common place to find feedback for everything. It also hardly counts as action. And I still can't help but find this logic to be faulty. Demand shouldn't be what's driving the stories forward. Anakin should be in it only if it makes sense for the story, and I happen to see more evidence of this.

But if you want to get an idea of who wants Anakin, you don't need to look any further at the buzz to all the persistent Anakin rumors that came around during TFA and after. There's also been a ton of videoes and speculation on the subject. Or just look at the positive reponse to Hayden coming to SWCO. Take a look at all the top comments on the official SW account for Facebook or Twitter, and tell me what you see. You'd be surprised at how many people, that aren't hardcore as fans on these forums, expect Hayden coming back. I don't know what you want fans to do, make petitions? I just don't think writers should have to get permission from people or write accordingly to any demand.

 

I long as Hayden isn't given a script like this.



I think we'll be good.

 

Yeah, if he's actually written like Vader then Hayden could probably do a better job.

 

Then he would say: I find the amount of sand disturbing

 

I think it's safe to say that Redeemed Force Ghost Anakin will not think or speak the same way as Nervous Teenage Mother Issues Anakin. Call it a hunch.

 

Yup, exactly.

And I stand to it that the sand dialogue isn't bad dialogue, especially in context to who Anakin is and where he came from...and the fact that he tries to segue it into a come on to Padme. And it almost works.

 

Too much can be read into these things, of course. But there's also a decent argument that in the lead up to appearing on screen in a new star wars film, Lucasfilm and Hayden wanted to reconnect him to the franchise a bit, maybe give him an appearance on a panel too, just to help recontextualise him and maybe discreetly address the issues some might have about his performance based on earlier appearances

 

I honestly don't get the hate for the Sand line. It's a specific characterisation. At least it tells something about the character that unique, unlike generic, failed quasi-quotable lines (that no one quotes) such as "I can fly anything", "Give them all you've got." and "it's now or never." That crap is generic, typical movie trailer trash, something that marketing thinks sounds good in previews and draws the audience when it really doesn't. I'd take 1000 Sand characterisation over recycled too-cool-for-school flatness.

 

I've always thought the hate was overblown as well, but to play devil's advocate, I think most of the hate is directed more at the delivery than the dialogue itself.

 

Wrenegade I think that he played the character really well. It's that fans expected Anakin to be much cooler than he actually was, but being the way he was made sense psychologically. I really appreciate what Hayden did with the character. he created a distinguishable character. His only misfortune was that fans had such strong idea what they wanted Anakin to be that they couldn't get past the discrepancy between canon and their expectations/headcanons. But delivery was fine.

 

The sand thing is one of the more unintentionally iconic Star Wars moments now, don't you think?

 

It's totally iconic. It stood the test of time and that shows that it worked.

 

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A PT vs OT discussion is coming!

 

PT all the way! There, I said it.

 

I think the sand line being OVERcritizied is pretty hilarious given that I never had any problem with the line, like ever, still don't..

then once you come to the Internet for SW which I did back starting in 2014 that's when you realize that there is so much hate for one line as if this one line= the entire movie.

 

I never had a problem with it either.

 

the scene is supposed to be awkward, he's an ex-slave who becomes a repressed monk. And in that scene he's trying to open himself up to someone else.

a good description of Anakin in II is that he's a teen and he acts like one throughout the entire film.

 

Exactly. They did really well, IMO, with such a strange concept.

 

There are many ways you could look at the sand line.

 

I sometimes get the impression that a more suave Anakin is want some seem to have wanted.
which honestly doesn't fit a character that falls to the darkside and besides the suave one in the PT is Kenobi,

 

I saw no problem with the sand line. The awkwardness of their romance is exactly what made it interesting and different of the typical "bad boy gets the girl in he end" stories.

 

I love Anakin/Padme romance.

 

I think the thing about anakin and the jedi is that yoda already said he was to old to be trained because of his emotional attachment to his mother and for the jedi thats obviously a No no, so anakin had to train himself to let go of everything he feared to lose and tatooine was always a reminder of his mother