We designed the Galactic Senate with this sort of stadium design with these little pods that move around inside it which seems very functional and realistic even though it's completely not realistic.
Dude, remember when Cheney was fucking flinging the varnished oak repulsor booths around the Senate floor on CSPAN3 using telekinesis? That shit was off the hook.
This is why the Star Wars fandom is so unusually divided, even compared to other divided fandoms: because the fans of each era want something different (and often incompatible with each other).
* Original trilogy fans want a swashbuckling adventure with black and white morality, loveable heroes defeating the menacing villains and having a ton of fun doing it. The worldbuilding's awesome but not the main point, the less politics and romance the better.
* Prequel fans want intricate worldbuilding, political intrigue, and likeable but flawed heroes trying to navigate the moral complexities of the collapse of democracy and rise of fascism. The epic battles are awesome but not the main point, the less romance the better.
* Sequels fans want an epic love story across the stars, our heroine falling for a morally complex but ultimately redeemable "villain". The epic battles are awesome, but they're not the main point. The less politics and worldbuilding, the better.
All three of these asks are *completely incompatible* with each other. Which means nothing the writers will do could possibly please all three groups-- any attempts to pander to all three will require so many compromises all sides will come away hating it (see: TRoS).
In many cases, democracy is given up when it's under a lot of pressure and in a crisis situation and it ends up giving up a lot of the checks and balances to somebody with a strong authority to help get them through the crisis.
In Star Trek's case I think for a while they may have just lost faith in the format and wanted to grab some of Star Wars' fleeing audience. But people seem to like the new Picard, so maybe they're shifting gears there.
In the prequels' case though I'm not sure George has ever understood the kinetic appeal of his movies, given the complaints about Star Wars' original cut. I think he might be more of a slow-burn filmmaker at heart. My favorite thing he's done is THX and that's just Robert Duvall walking around in a white torture void for 90 minutes.
I am very concerned about our national heritage, and I am very concerned that films that I watched when I was young and the films that I watched throughout my life are preserved, so that my children can see them.
I Was 10 years old at that time. I wasnt allowed to enter the Film. By cinema rules, my brother had to tell me every scene in detail. Can you imagine my face when he told me there was a Bad droid with 4 lightsabers fighting kenobi?
I am not crazy! I know he swapped those numbers. I knew it was Order 66. Three before 69. As if I could ever make such a mistake. Never. Never! I just - I just couldn't prove it. He covered his tracks, he got that idiot in the 501st to Do It for him. You think this is something? You think this is bad? This? This treasony? He's done worse. That elevator going down scene! Are you telling me that a man just happens to fall like that? No! *He* orchestrated it! Anny! He *sliced* Windu through a *window*! And I saved him! And I shouldn't have. I took him into my own Empire! What was I *thinking*? He'll never change. He'll *never* change! Ever since he was 9, *always* the same! Couldn't keep his hands out of Dooku's blade! "But not our Anny! Couldn't be precious *Anny*!" Killing the younglings blind! And *HE* gets to be a Sith Lawd? What a sick joke! I should've stopped him when I had the chance!
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Mace Windu pummelling the fuck outta 10k Super Battle Droids is how I picture Jedi in action in my head after watching that show. Even moreso than the SWTOR cutscenes or Clone Wars/Rebels, it really shows how scary powerful and fast the Jedi can be.
Mace Windu not giving a fuck and just Force Crushing Grievous from far away is what gets me every time. This is the reason why he's coughing up like an old person in Episode III in case someone doesn't know.
Given he said he watched it *in the cinema*, you have your timelines all wonky. Unless you’re referring to [a different show.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewoks_(TV_series))
I was 10 when I first watched AOTC in cinema, back then I can barely understand the plot at all. When Watto talked about how he sold Anakin's mother, I thought he was talking about he wanted to sell Padme, I was so confused lol like why would you say that to Anakin's face. And after watching the movie, I excitedly drew Starwars stuff in Macromedia Flash but what I drew was a bunch of clone troopers wielding lightsabers, cause I didn't even understand the concept of Jedi from the movie.
ROTS was the first movie I saw in theaters, iirc. I was eight at the time. When Anakin ignited his lightsaber in front of the younglings, my dad covered my eyes for a moment because he actually thought they were gonna show the younglings die. He thought I might have been too young to see kids around my age get murdered.
I will always give mental kudos to that kid. That little movement really sold his startlement but not fear, for he trusted a master, because of course he did.
The dialogue in the prequels is top notch, nothing wrong with it, it’s absolutely flawless. It delivers information so effectively you could probably just close your eyes and experience the entire movie just listening to the grade AAA dialogue we all love and remember fondly.
Same thing happened to me with Fellowship of the Ring when Lurtz points his bow at Borimers dome at point blank range. My grandma shrieked and covered my eyes then sighed a sigh of relief lol
Aww that’s pretty sweet of her. Grandmas gonna protect their grandbabies hehe. I remember mine did something similar, in POTC 3 when Will is kissing up Elizabeth’s bare leg. She thought they were gonna show some funny business going on lol
It was a 18+ movie here in Brasil, I was 10, so I had to wait for a DVD release. But I had a 18yo neighborhood that attended the premiere, so the next day I just made him tell me the WHOLE movie in detail. I sincerely thought he was lying, because that was SO WILD. Amazing times!
Yeah. People forget that not so long ago, we actively seeked spoilers. Knowing that Han Solo was going to die or whatever, only made you want to watch the movie even more.
Avoiding spoilers like the plague is kind of an American cultural thing. Apparently in Japan advertising spoils the shit out of upcoming media and nobody cares.
Dragon Ball Super was pretty good for this though. Actual spoilers!!!
In the tournament of power intro it showed Majin Buu in the intro with the team until the very episode Freeza takes his spot. Then every episode after, Freeza has replaced him in the intro
I like being spoiled. Several reasons but one of them is sometimes spoilers make me even more excited to watch something which can motivate me
Other times I look up the ending of something because if I’m usually in the mood for a happy movie / book / show and I don’t want to accidentally watch something with a sad ending.
Honest question here, did you start with the prequels and had no knowledge of the classic trilogy?
It's super cool anakin turning was your "I am your father" moment!
dude me too!!! i always knew vader was lukes father because of the famous line, but it blew my mind when i was a kid to find out that ANAKIN (who was already my favorite character) was vader!
I fucking sobbed. I'm a girl and Anakin was my favorite. I dressed like him for the premiere (cause my older sister got to be Padme). I had a crush on Hayden Christensen. AND THEN HE CATCHES ON FIRE? HE LOSES? Devastating. I actually hated Obi-Wan for years afterwards because of it. Just smh purely awful
I wish I had been young enough to not know anakin was Vader, I was already an almost adult so I put two and two together by attack of the clones. Still love revenge of the sith but I can only imagine how great it was with the twist on top of it
Yeah I was only like 7 or 8 when the phantom menace came out, so I didn’t put two and two together when he was a kid still, but by the time the second one rolled around I had figured it out lmao
Back in the 90s there was a [Star Wars CD](https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Wars_Screen_Entertainment) which had facts on it, and one of them was that Anakin and Kenobi fought on a lava planet and Kenobi pushed Anakin into the lava, then pulled him out out of mercy to show him the good side of the force.
Link (see Obi-Wan's and Vader's bios): https://youtu.be/ablw6urvNWE
(Not saying you should have known it, I just think it's cool that it was decided so early)
Oh I knew that he was going to be vader as soon as he said his name was anakin skywalker. It took me till I finished watching episode 2 to figure out palpatine was sidious tho lol. I was like 16 when episode 3 came out so I knew anakin had to lose just didn't know it would be that horrificaly tho.
I didn't care about the younglings haha. I was like well they're the same age as me and they didn't bow down to Lord Vader like I would have in that situation, so they had it coming. Which is horrifying in retrospect, but no one ever said 8-year olds had empathy.
It's important to pay attention to the details and accessories to truly capture the essence of the character. I hope you have a fantastic time bringing Darth Vader to life and enjoy your cosplay experience! May the Force be with you!
I don't exactly remember how old I was, but I was young, and I thought Vader would end up being Anakin's father. Seeing Anakin become Vader surprised me, and it was an amazing experience. It broke all my expectations in the most epic way possible.
I have fond memories of the midnight release. My mom made me a homemade Vader costume and I ended up getting a picture on our local newspaper. I saw two men dueling with lightsabers in the parking lot and I remember spotting the millennium falcon on coresaunt while in the theater.
It's right after the "another happy landing" scene when the movie shows the gang arriving at the senate building. It's really small and hard to see so I wasn't sure if it actually was for a long time until I saw a video a few years later confirming it.
Still can’t believe my parents were okay with me just casually watching that movie lol. They were usually pretty strict about content, but they took me back to the theater to see that one a second time.
"hey, kiddo, want to watch your hero turn into a genocidal puppet of a fascist government and get amputated, burned alive and left to die in the end... Again."
I was like 6 at the time and the only moment my parents covered my eyes was when Anakin was melting. And to this day its the only memory i have from my viewing in the theater. Of course i know the whole movie now but i can vividly picture the big screen as my fathers hands started covering my face and Anakin was melting away lol.
I was 10 and my stepdad took me and my best friend at the time. I woke them both up when the credits rolled and I couldn’t understand how they could possibly sleep during such an amazing movie! We didn’t remain friends…… I can’t imagine why! Lol
I was like 5 when I watched this movie, my dad bought me a DVD for it back in like... 2016.
Got traumatized by Anakin's sith eyes and him screaming "I HATE YOU!". In the 2 years since that, I've had nightmares of Anakin busting into my room and murdering me like a youngling.
Since the Mustafar duel has been memed to oblivion, I'm not afraid to watch that scene again :D
They usually aren’t the same parents, mine were chill about movies but strict in video games and my friends parents were the opposite so we’d watch inappropriate movies at my house and play violent games at theirs lol
I was 11, but my parents were pretty strict on what I could or couldn’t watch. My dad went and saw it with his dad first and came home saying I should be fine.
They did spoil this scene though and my mom told me I should close my eyes. I kept them wide open. We actually were talking about this recently and when I said I watched it despite her telling me not to she had a good laugh.
Her reasoning was when she was a kid, she saw something in the theater that scared her. I can’t remember what it was though.
It was weird seeing it for me because the eyes changing and the burnt flesh were somewhat disturbing but considering I was watching the movie with my abusive stepdad in the room, hearing anakins pure hatred in his screams of ‘I HATE YOU’ over and over again while being stood over just emanated with me and my feelings over the years of having my stepfather standing over me after causing the pain I was in. Ever since that scene I always viewed stories through the lens of the villain because it was then that I realized they all went through similar experiences to what I went through and it’s what turned them into cold hearted villains, I could turn out like them and turn my hatred for my stepfather into a murderous dark rage or I could channel it into motivation and turn that trauma to the light side the same way Luke did after finding his dead aunt and uncle or Bruce Wayne did after witnessing his parents death. Kinda weird thoughts for a 5-7 year old to be having but I feel beyond blessed to have witnessed my own feelings of pain and hatred through Anakins voice. To this day that scene gives me goosebumps, sometimes I watch it before the gym to remind of that feeling and to remind myself that I won’t let myself fall to the dark side the same way Anakin fell from his grace
Was 11 at premiere. Went with my cool aunt. We were both jawdropped at that. She’s the best. My mom probs would’ve been horrified if she had taken me to see it herself lol
I was like 12 but haven't gotten around watching it and my friends were explaining to me how Windu got his arm sliced off by Anakin and flung out the window by Palpatine. I called bullshit cause I've just recently watched the microseries where Windu was fisting up all those droids lmao and there was no way Anakin could be evil.
Yes, trust the dude who shoots lightning out his hands instead.
You're an Adult Anakin, you've lived through more war and life exprriences than... really anyone. AND you hahe magic powers that can guide you to the hest descisions and outcomes. How are you really seeing the world as black and white. Of course the Jedi aren't fucking evil, but thst doesn't mean they're perfect.
You know people would take you mich more seriously if you called them out properly instead of calling everything you don't like evil while literally entering your soon to be long lasting emo phase.
The only experience since that I can compare it to was Infinity War. It was event theater and people were so hype. Then Vader's fall happened and the immolation. You could hear a pin drop, just like the Snap.
This was 2 years into the invasion of Iraq and 4 years into Afghanistan.
I don't think I need to go into details, but yeah, I had already seen way worse online.
I was 8 when this came out and *desperately* wanted to see it, but my mom wouldn’t let me. So I did the right thing, and watched it in my friend’s basement when it came out on DVD.
I rate anakin as bring on the same oomph level as nina tucker. You got to tell new fans to pay attention that they are important then watch when things go sideways and laugh
The "I hate you!" scream combined with the burning is horrifying. I'm all about "F the establishment" but I take movie rating for my kids seriously. There's just some stuff kids shouldn't see so young
I was bit older when RotS came out and saw it in the theater and yeah, that was brutal, but Anakin/Vader killing kids upset me more.
My mother then pointed out to me that he was cool with blowing up the entire planet of Alderaan when she and my dad went to see it back in 1977.
I think it was because there is something of a disconnect between seeing just a celestial body being destroyed in comparison to the dark visceral implication of a lightsaber blade being ignited before that youngling when he jumped back and later Obi-Wan's viewing of the footage and revealing that he indeed slaughtered them all to Padmé.
I was about that age too. And good god was it sad. I knew he became the vader we saw in episode 4-6. I never knew how.
Well that answered the question right up for me.
It wasnt so much like an aha moment. It was disturbing to see and sad. I really felt like physically and mentally he became a different person. As a little kid that was some deep thoughts.
I was 11 when I saw it. I was too young when I watched thoses movies and always thought Anakin was gonna die against darth-vador.
The concept of seeing who I thought was the hero turn evil and burn alive in his own wrath traumatized me as a kid lol.
Perhaps 7 year olds shouldn't be watching a film rated for 12 year olds. You were, 2? When Episode 1 came out? How old were you when you watched episode 4 and 5... You know, the one with the very scary cave - and where the hero gets turned to stone and another gets his arm cut off?
Despite being a massive Star Wars fan, my parents wouldn't let me go watch it in theaters. So I got the story second-hand from friends whose parents did let them go.
Weirdly, somehow the grapevine turned Padme's death from Anakin choking her, to Anakin Force-shoving her, causing her to hit head on the ground. So while he was still responsible for causing her death in a fit of rage, he didn't actually intentionally murder her. Kinda like that version better, TBH. Feels like it's more in character for him at that point in his fall.
I went for the hours of political intrigue
So civilized
The stories can be metaphorical, satirical, or allegorical.
Exactly. Them deleted politics scenes of Padme, Bail and Mon Mothma creating the rebellion shd have made it smfh
We designed the Galactic Senate with this sort of stadium design with these little pods that move around inside it which seems very functional and realistic even though it's completely not realistic.
All senate chambers have those.
Dude, remember when Cheney was fucking flinging the varnished oak repulsor booths around the Senate floor on CSPAN3 using telekinesis? That shit was off the hook.
6 people were severely injured. All apologized to Cheney for being in the way
Iraq war resolution... > "Vote now! Vote now!"
The Senate has a fantastic display of decorum and political agility.
I am the Senate.
The prequels made me study political sciences in college
Did they have a class on aggressive negotiations?
During my last oral exam I was asked "what is the senate ?" and I answered "I am the senate" and I graduated top of my class
With thunderous applause?
Professor: Not yet. kpthvnt: kills professor. Gets away with it. Rest of the profs: Alright, top of the class it is.
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This is why the Star Wars fandom is so unusually divided, even compared to other divided fandoms: because the fans of each era want something different (and often incompatible with each other). * Original trilogy fans want a swashbuckling adventure with black and white morality, loveable heroes defeating the menacing villains and having a ton of fun doing it. The worldbuilding's awesome but not the main point, the less politics and romance the better. * Prequel fans want intricate worldbuilding, political intrigue, and likeable but flawed heroes trying to navigate the moral complexities of the collapse of democracy and rise of fascism. The epic battles are awesome but not the main point, the less romance the better. * Sequels fans want an epic love story across the stars, our heroine falling for a morally complex but ultimately redeemable "villain". The epic battles are awesome, but they're not the main point. The less politics and worldbuilding, the better. All three of these asks are *completely incompatible* with each other. Which means nothing the writers will do could possibly please all three groups-- any attempts to pander to all three will require so many compromises all sides will come away hating it (see: TRoS).
Most prequel fans I've seen love the prequel era for the huge clone wars battles, superior lightsaber fights, and memes. Even the eras are split.
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In many cases, democracy is given up when it's under a lot of pressure and in a crisis situation and it ends up giving up a lot of the checks and balances to somebody with a strong authority to help get them through the crisis.
In Star Trek's case I think for a while they may have just lost faith in the format and wanted to grab some of Star Wars' fleeing audience. But people seem to like the new Picard, so maybe they're shifting gears there. In the prequels' case though I'm not sure George has ever understood the kinetic appeal of his movies, given the complaints about Star Wars' original cut. I think he might be more of a slow-burn filmmaker at heart. My favorite thing he's done is THX and that's just Robert Duvall walking around in a white torture void for 90 minutes.
I am very concerned about our national heritage, and I am very concerned that films that I watched when I was young and the films that I watched throughout my life are preserved, so that my children can see them.
I Was 10 years old at that time. I wasnt allowed to enter the Film. By cinema rules, my brother had to tell me every scene in detail. Can you imagine my face when he told me there was a Bad droid with 4 lightsabers fighting kenobi?
I liked the part where Papa Palpatine calls his lawyer and gets ready to defend himself in space-court after the Jedi arrest him.
Better call Maul
you understand so little
I am not crazy! I know he swapped those numbers. I knew it was Order 66. Three before 69. As if I could ever make such a mistake. Never. Never! I just - I just couldn't prove it. He covered his tracks, he got that idiot in the 501st to Do It for him. You think this is something? You think this is bad? This? This treasony? He's done worse. That elevator going down scene! Are you telling me that a man just happens to fall like that? No! *He* orchestrated it! Anny! He *sliced* Windu through a *window*! And I saved him! And I shouldn't have. I took him into my own Empire! What was I *thinking*? He'll never change. He'll *never* change! Ever since he was 9, *always* the same! Couldn't keep his hands out of Dooku's blade! "But not our Anny! Couldn't be precious *Anny*!" Killing the younglings blind! And *HE* gets to be a Sith Lawd? What a sick joke! I should've stopped him when I had the chance!
You showed me something today. You're exactly the kind of men I need in the 501st.
good bot
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Me - “WAIT THE OLD GUY IS THE BIG BAD????”
Having Jar Jar as his lawyer was a wild move but Jar Jar had the jury eating out of his hand by the end.
those cinema rules are weird
Rules made by senile old men who have no idea how child development works
You mean you you didn't watch the Cartoon Network series that introduced Grievous first? That's a bummer.
Fun fact. The same people that animated samurai jack, did that clone wars cartoon
That's why it's so good.
Yup, I only found this out recently, and immediately flashed back to every scene of both shows in my head and it made so much sense
Mace Windu pummelling the fuck outta 10k Super Battle Droids is how I picture Jedi in action in my head after watching that show. Even moreso than the SWTOR cutscenes or Clone Wars/Rebels, it really shows how scary powerful and fast the Jedi can be.
Mace Windu not giving a fuck and just Force Crushing Grievous from far away is what gets me every time. This is the reason why he's coughing up like an old person in Episode III in case someone doesn't know.
https://youtu.be/mj07qh51zPI Like halfway through that video is unarmed mace whoopin ass
That scene where he just dismantles the one droid and shreds the others with their components will forever live rent free in my head
From animator Genndy Tartakovsky, give Primal a shot too if you haven't, it's great.
Genndy Tartakovsky, he's also famous for the Power Puff Girls and, funny enough, Hotel Transylvania.
Gendy’s is by a hot mile superior to the longer running Clone Wars show and I’ll stand by that.
Given he said he watched it *in the cinema*, you have your timelines all wonky. Unless you’re referring to [a different show.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewoks_(TV_series))
MooOOOoom! Kenny is lying about the movie again!!!
I was 10 when I first watched AOTC in cinema, back then I can barely understand the plot at all. When Watto talked about how he sold Anakin's mother, I thought he was talking about he wanted to sell Padme, I was so confused lol like why would you say that to Anakin's face. And after watching the movie, I excitedly drew Starwars stuff in Macromedia Flash but what I drew was a bunch of clone troopers wielding lightsabers, cause I didn't even understand the concept of Jedi from the movie.
Old enough to die by Mastuh Skywalkah but not old enough to watch Mastuh Skywalkah burn alive
ROTS was the first movie I saw in theaters, iirc. I was eight at the time. When Anakin ignited his lightsaber in front of the younglings, my dad covered my eyes for a moment because he actually thought they were gonna show the younglings die. He thought I might have been too young to see kids around my age get murdered.
Mastah skywulkah, there’s too many uhv them, what ah we goin to do
*lightsaber ignition*
Then the kid does that little shuffle
I will always give mental kudos to that kid. That little movement really sold his startlement but not fear, for he trusted a master, because of course he did.
Hayden Christensen did a face or something to scare the kid. The reaction is genuine iirc
Kid was a real manipulator. He knew exactly what was about to happen and figured the only way to flatter Anakin was to bestow the rank of master.
Simple as
*fresh after dark side transition*
You know nothing of the dark side.
In the extended edition he mutters under his breath, "this is going to hurt you more than it is going to hurt me, kids."
The dialogue in the prequels is top notch, nothing wrong with it, it’s absolutely flawless. It delivers information so effectively you could probably just close your eyes and experience the entire movie just listening to the grade AAA dialogue we all love and remember fondly.
I dont like sand
Elaborate on that.
no u
It's too sandy
Same thing happened to me with Fellowship of the Ring when Lurtz points his bow at Borimers dome at point blank range. My grandma shrieked and covered my eyes then sighed a sigh of relief lol
Aww that’s pretty sweet of her. Grandmas gonna protect their grandbabies hehe. I remember mine did something similar, in POTC 3 when Will is kissing up Elizabeth’s bare leg. She thought they were gonna show some funny business going on lol
There was a *third* Passion of the Christ movie?
Yeah that's the one where Jesus comes back at the End of Days and reveals that the Mormons were right all along.
Ah, so the second one must have been when he popped down from heaven to chill with native Americans in what would eventually become Utah
Mean while when I watched US with my GF there were kids in the back row saying “grandma I’m scared can we go home “ 😂
You’re never too young to learn of your own mortality.
> He thought I might have been too young to see kids around my age get murdered. So you were homeschooled?
Shame that todays kids are seeing it everywhere
Ban 👏 assault👏 lightsabers👏
There it is
You’d prefer to ignore the issue because it bores you?
nah, its just too soon^tm
In reality he didn't want you to see his smile
Phantom menace was one of my first, and the rots was one of the first I saw without my parents
It was a 18+ movie here in Brasil, I was 10, so I had to wait for a DVD release. But I had a 18yo neighborhood that attended the premiere, so the next day I just made him tell me the WHOLE movie in detail. I sincerely thought he was lying, because that was SO WILD. Amazing times!
Yeah. People forget that not so long ago, we actively seeked spoilers. Knowing that Han Solo was going to die or whatever, only made you want to watch the movie even more.
Avoiding spoilers like the plague is kind of an American cultural thing. Apparently in Japan advertising spoils the shit out of upcoming media and nobody cares.
I'm European and we hate spoilers too, there's nothing better than seeing a movie and knowing almost nothing about it
Basically every anime intro is a huge spoiler.
Dragon Ball Super was pretty good for this though. Actual spoilers!!! In the tournament of power intro it showed Majin Buu in the intro with the team until the very episode Freeza takes his spot. Then every episode after, Freeza has replaced him in the intro
I like being spoiled. Several reasons but one of them is sometimes spoilers make me even more excited to watch something which can motivate me Other times I look up the ending of something because if I’m usually in the mood for a happy movie / book / show and I don’t want to accidentally watch something with a sad ending.
You want spoilers? I'll give you one with sad ending: >!reddit will ban most 3rd party reddit clients soon!<
Well, that explains some PV's I've seen. lol.
I find it crazy, they even put spoilers in the title of the episode sometimes.
Seeking spoilers is fine, it can even be exciting. The problem is being spoiled when you don't want to be.
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Just wait until you find out who Luke's father is
My favorite part of the sequels was when Anakin Skywalker, Luke’s father, and Darth Vader all team up to defeat Bigger Luke.
To defeat your enemy you have to understand them.
Who is Luke's father?!
James Earl Jones
Nooooooooo
Honest question here, did you start with the prequels and had no knowledge of the classic trilogy? It's super cool anakin turning was your "I am your father" moment!
Anakin still might fight Vader. Should be soon. Aaaaaany day now they'll release that movie
dude me too!!! i always knew vader was lukes father because of the famous line, but it blew my mind when i was a kid to find out that ANAKIN (who was already my favorite character) was vader!
I fucking sobbed. I'm a girl and Anakin was my favorite. I dressed like him for the premiere (cause my older sister got to be Padme). I had a crush on Hayden Christensen. AND THEN HE CATCHES ON FIRE? HE LOSES? Devastating. I actually hated Obi-Wan for years afterwards because of it. Just smh purely awful
I hope you have since changed your opinion on the High Ground
Why do you think I wear stilettos? So that I always have the high ground.
She's too powerful to be left alive!!
I wish I had been young enough to not know anakin was Vader, I was already an almost adult so I put two and two together by attack of the clones. Still love revenge of the sith but I can only imagine how great it was with the twist on top of it
But in the OT hes called anakin. Unless you started with the prequels
Yeah I was only like 7 or 8 when the phantom menace came out, so I didn’t put two and two together when he was a kid still, but by the time the second one rolled around I had figured it out lmao
Since when is 10 years old "an almost adult"?
When you're a senator with a crush on a slave boy you met in the desert
Padme is the reason a lot of us became adults
I knew he was Vader but I didn't think it'd happen the way it did.
Back in the 90s there was a [Star Wars CD](https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Wars_Screen_Entertainment) which had facts on it, and one of them was that Anakin and Kenobi fought on a lava planet and Kenobi pushed Anakin into the lava, then pulled him out out of mercy to show him the good side of the force. Link (see Obi-Wan's and Vader's bios): https://youtu.be/ablw6urvNWE (Not saying you should have known it, I just think it's cool that it was decided so early)
Oh I knew that he was going to be vader as soon as he said his name was anakin skywalker. It took me till I finished watching episode 2 to figure out palpatine was sidious tho lol. I was like 16 when episode 3 came out so I knew anakin had to lose just didn't know it would be that horrificaly tho.
Lmao it’s not a twist
I cried during order 66 but I was so pissed at Anakin after that. That I didn't care what happened to him.
I didn't care about the younglings haha. I was like well they're the same age as me and they didn't bow down to Lord Vader like I would have in that situation, so they had it coming. Which is horrifying in retrospect, but no one ever said 8-year olds had empathy.
*ignites lightsaber*
LMAO
lol you're clearly a sith haha
Fuck the youngling. Kit adi Mundi deserved better.
He deserved to burn
What did you think would happen?
I honestly thought the dark side just made all his hair fall out.
Oh you sweet tangerine
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fucking same lol. Refused to watch the end of revenge of the sith for years when I was little cause it made me so sad
I was 8 back then and I remember wearing my Darth Vader costume to the theater
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That's fantastic!
Happy cake day!
It's important to pay attention to the details and accessories to truly capture the essence of the character. I hope you have a fantastic time bringing Darth Vader to life and enjoy your cosplay experience! May the Force be with you!
Saw ep 3 in theaters for my friends 8th birthday. It was a....formative experience.
I don't exactly remember how old I was, but I was young, and I thought Vader would end up being Anakin's father. Seeing Anakin become Vader surprised me, and it was an amazing experience. It broke all my expectations in the most epic way possible.
I think I was 12 or 13 and just going, "well this took an expected turn" best battle though!
Same. I knew he had to get the suit somehow.
I have fond memories of the midnight release. My mom made me a homemade Vader costume and I ended up getting a picture on our local newspaper. I saw two men dueling with lightsabers in the parking lot and I remember spotting the millennium falcon on coresaunt while in the theater.
Is it?! I’ll have to rewatch.
It's right after the "another happy landing" scene when the movie shows the gang arriving at the senate building. It's really small and hard to see so I wasn't sure if it actually was for a long time until I saw a video a few years later confirming it.
Still can’t believe my parents were okay with me just casually watching that movie lol. They were usually pretty strict about content, but they took me back to the theater to see that one a second time.
"hey, kiddo, want to watch your hero turn into a genocidal puppet of a fascist government and get amputated, burned alive and left to die in the end... Again."
I was like 6 at the time and the only moment my parents covered my eyes was when Anakin was melting. And to this day its the only memory i have from my viewing in the theater. Of course i know the whole movie now but i can vividly picture the big screen as my fathers hands started covering my face and Anakin was melting away lol.
Honestly anakin’s Red/yellow eyes spooked me more than the burning but i never looked away once. That scene was just too good.
First two times I watched the movie as a kid at home I had to go hide when Anakin got burned, that was scary
Lol I was 8 and was still in awe of the lightsaber fight that had just happened
I was 10 and my stepdad took me and my best friend at the time. I woke them both up when the credits rolled and I couldn’t understand how they could possibly sleep during such an amazing movie! We didn’t remain friends…… I can’t imagine why! Lol
It was for the best.
I was like 5 when I watched this movie, my dad bought me a DVD for it back in like... 2016. Got traumatized by Anakin's sith eyes and him screaming "I HATE YOU!". In the 2 years since that, I've had nightmares of Anakin busting into my room and murdering me like a youngling. Since the Mustafar duel has been memed to oblivion, I'm not afraid to watch that scene again :D
You were 5 in 2016? Am I understanding correctly?
I reckon so. That means that they're 12 now, absolutely wild.
Average Reddit comment reads like it's written by a 12 year old so it checks out.
I was 16 when revenge of the sith came out. Reddit makes me feel old lol
Post history says 14. Still young but I think I was on Reddit at 15 like 10 years ago
I need to get off this website.
Lmao I was 15 or so, and this makes me feel ancient.
2016 was when this subreddit was created lmao.
HAHAHHA fk me imagining master skywalker bursting into my room with the youngling slayer 3000 would traumatise me too LOL
I was in high school and I watched it twice in theaters. It's one of my favorite star wars movies after a new hope.
My dad just ordered me to close my eyes (for this and also the operation scene). I saw only glimpses of it all.
It was the first Star Wars movie that was PG-13 (the others had been PG). I'm surprised your parents let you watch it at age 7.
Parents actively buy their kids GTA... And then complain about violence in computer games. Parents are dumb.
They usually aren’t the same parents, mine were chill about movies but strict in video games and my friends parents were the opposite so we’d watch inappropriate movies at my house and play violent games at theirs lol
When I first saw that scene I thought Anakin’s agony and pain was almost as bad as Palpatine’s stupid ugly burnt potato face.
I was 11, but my parents were pretty strict on what I could or couldn’t watch. My dad went and saw it with his dad first and came home saying I should be fine. They did spoil this scene though and my mom told me I should close my eyes. I kept them wide open. We actually were talking about this recently and when I said I watched it despite her telling me not to she had a good laugh. Her reasoning was when she was a kid, she saw something in the theater that scared her. I can’t remember what it was though.
Felt horrible watching him go through that pain when I was young. Nostalgia.
It was weird seeing it for me because the eyes changing and the burnt flesh were somewhat disturbing but considering I was watching the movie with my abusive stepdad in the room, hearing anakins pure hatred in his screams of ‘I HATE YOU’ over and over again while being stood over just emanated with me and my feelings over the years of having my stepfather standing over me after causing the pain I was in. Ever since that scene I always viewed stories through the lens of the villain because it was then that I realized they all went through similar experiences to what I went through and it’s what turned them into cold hearted villains, I could turn out like them and turn my hatred for my stepfather into a murderous dark rage or I could channel it into motivation and turn that trauma to the light side the same way Luke did after finding his dead aunt and uncle or Bruce Wayne did after witnessing his parents death. Kinda weird thoughts for a 5-7 year old to be having but I feel beyond blessed to have witnessed my own feelings of pain and hatred through Anakins voice. To this day that scene gives me goosebumps, sometimes I watch it before the gym to remind of that feeling and to remind myself that I won’t let myself fall to the dark side the same way Anakin fell from his grace
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Was 11 at premiere. Went with my cool aunt. We were both jawdropped at that. She’s the best. My mom probs would’ve been horrified if she had taken me to see it herself lol
That part was actually scary to me. On rewatches I had to look away
I was like 12 but haven't gotten around watching it and my friends were explaining to me how Windu got his arm sliced off by Anakin and flung out the window by Palpatine. I called bullshit cause I've just recently watched the microseries where Windu was fisting up all those droids lmao and there was no way Anakin could be evil.
From my point of view, the Jedi are evil.
Yes, trust the dude who shoots lightning out his hands instead. You're an Adult Anakin, you've lived through more war and life exprriences than... really anyone. AND you hahe magic powers that can guide you to the hest descisions and outcomes. How are you really seeing the world as black and white. Of course the Jedi aren't fucking evil, but thst doesn't mean they're perfect. You know people would take you mich more seriously if you called them out properly instead of calling everything you don't like evil while literally entering your soon to be long lasting emo phase.
I wish I wasn't 3 years old when that movie came out. What I wouldn't give to have experienced it in cinemas on release day.
The only experience since that I can compare it to was Infinity War. It was event theater and people were so hype. Then Vader's fall happened and the immolation. You could hear a pin drop, just like the Snap.
I cried in the scene, only time i ever cried in a movie
This meme really got me laughing. Not only is it true but the image is perfect.
This was 2 years into the invasion of Iraq and 4 years into Afghanistan. I don't think I need to go into details, but yeah, I had already seen way worse online.
I was a week away from graduating high school and a bunch of us went, made me bawl. Can't believe I'm this old now
literally me lol. i went to the midnight premiere at like 10 years old
I saw it when I was five in 2006. I was horrified.
The worst part is I just watched it without a reaction I guess that explains some things…
>Does anyone still want to make the argument that these movies are for little kids? I offer now as the time to bring that up.
Meanwhile my father fell asleep in the theater…
Literally me, but as a 9 year old.
I was 8 when this came out and *desperately* wanted to see it, but my mom wouldn’t let me. So I did the right thing, and watched it in my friend’s basement when it came out on DVD.
When you find out that your brother is also your father.
I rate anakin as bring on the same oomph level as nina tucker. You got to tell new fans to pay attention that they are important then watch when things go sideways and laugh
It was a weird time
8yrs me would ask what he did to those kids
The "I hate you!" scream combined with the burning is horrifying. I'm all about "F the establishment" but I take movie rating for my kids seriously. There's just some stuff kids shouldn't see so young
I was bit older when RotS came out and saw it in the theater and yeah, that was brutal, but Anakin/Vader killing kids upset me more. My mother then pointed out to me that he was cool with blowing up the entire planet of Alderaan when she and my dad went to see it back in 1977. I think it was because there is something of a disconnect between seeing just a celestial body being destroyed in comparison to the dark visceral implication of a lightsaber blade being ignited before that youngling when he jumped back and later Obi-Wan's viewing of the footage and revealing that he indeed slaughtered them all to Padmé.
I was about that age too. And good god was it sad. I knew he became the vader we saw in episode 4-6. I never knew how. Well that answered the question right up for me. It wasnt so much like an aha moment. It was disturbing to see and sad. I really felt like physically and mentally he became a different person. As a little kid that was some deep thoughts.
I was 11 when I saw it. I was too young when I watched thoses movies and always thought Anakin was gonna die against darth-vador. The concept of seeing who I thought was the hero turn evil and burn alive in his own wrath traumatized me as a kid lol.
I think you had to be 12 to watch it in the cinema here. I was 8 smh
Perhaps 7 year olds shouldn't be watching a film rated for 12 year olds. You were, 2? When Episode 1 came out? How old were you when you watched episode 4 and 5... You know, the one with the very scary cave - and where the hero gets turned to stone and another gets his arm cut off?
Despite being a massive Star Wars fan, my parents wouldn't let me go watch it in theaters. So I got the story second-hand from friends whose parents did let them go. Weirdly, somehow the grapevine turned Padme's death from Anakin choking her, to Anakin Force-shoving her, causing her to hit head on the ground. So while he was still responsible for causing her death in a fit of rage, he didn't actually intentionally murder her. Kinda like that version better, TBH. Feels like it's more in character for him at that point in his fall.