[OT- Star Wars, possible spoilers] Was Darth Vader truly evil?

[Berandor]

Man, don't go dizzing Darth Vader!

He's the epitome of cool, ruthless evil! He's the baddest of the bad. He's comic book evil.

And that's how I want him to be.

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[JacktheRabbit]

ROFLMAO!!

That line is just too good.

He's comic book evil.

 

[Christian]

Other things that bother me: When did Anakin put on the growth spurt that made him the towering figure that is Darth Vader?

See! Now we're getting to some interesting questions!

I really doubt that this is anything Lucas will ever concern himself with. Hayden is pretty tall, maybe some black platform boots will cut it.

But, there's an interesting treatment in the Star Wars Technical Commentaries at theforce.net of the extent of Vader's injuries. One of the stronger theories developed is that Vader is literally, in Obi-Wan's words, 'more machine than man'. I saw a chilling piece of fan art there, based on the details posited, of Anakin in a bacta tank, being kept alive while his replacement parts are being built.

A head, two shoulders, much of an upper torso, and most of a left arm. And a bare spinal column trailing down into the shadows of the tank. In the 'rebuild', the torso would probably have to be larger than Anakin's original in order to accomodate the life support machinery, and the limbs would then be lengthened to maintain proportionality.

How he could survive such terrible injuries (really, worse than Darth Maul's bisection at the end of TPM) long enough to be fitted with the Vader suit, well, that's just a mystery ...

 

[hong]

How he could survive such terrible injuries (really, worse than Darth Maul's bisection at the end of TPM) long enough to be fitted with the Vader suit, well, that's just a mystery ...

Blame it on the midichlorans.

Apropos your sig: 1 theory is that Anakin went bad after 20 years of people calling him "Annie". Wouldn't you?

 

[Black Omega]

Ummm...I could've sworn that Yoda didn't think that Obi-Wan should've been Anakin's mentor, but was over-ruled by the rest of the Council.

Frankly, Yoda seemed against Annie being trained in the force at all. Exactly why and who approved it is left vague. It just happens, because it had to. Because Lucas already said Obiwan trains Annie. Logic has nothing to do with it.

 

[Christian]

Apropos your sig: 1 theory is that Anakin went bad after 20 years of people calling him "Annie". Wouldn't you?

That sig replaced my last 'Star Wars' sig before, I think, virtually anyone got to see it. Also from a topfive.com list:

Yoda: "Was I talking weird again last night? I always talk like that when I'm wasted."

 

[Rel]

Apropos your sig: 1 theory is that Anakin went bad after 20 years of people calling him "Annie". Wouldn't you?

Let's all just thank the good sweet lord that we didn't have to suffer through Anakin singing:

"The binary suns of Tatooine'll come out tomorrow..."

 

[Henry]

My suppositions:
1) Yoda did not want anakin trained, because a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Without training, he would likely have become some hot shot freelance pilot who was a lot luckier than usual.

2) Obi-wan was "half-trained," - but the council didn't know that. Qui-Gonn said Obi-wan was "ready."

 

[333 Dave]

My suppositions:
1) Yoda did not want anakin trained, because a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

Which is also why he decided to train Luke in ESB.

YODA: "He is too old. Yes too old to beguin the training"
LUKE: "But I've learned so much"

Yoda knew that without his tutilage Luke would definatly fall to the darkside, but he might be able to stop the fall with training.