3:50 "And there is one blazing moment in which you finally understand that there was no dragon. that there was no vader. that there was only *YOU* .. only Anakin Skywalker that it was all you.. *IS* you only you."
This line sums up the tragedy of Vader perfectly. He is a monster of his own making. His choices led him to destroy his friends, his family, and, ultimately, himself.
Matthew Stover deserves a medal for creating this book. The way he describes Vader’s transformation is perhaps one of the greatest of Star Wars legends. The narrator for the audio book did an amazing job too.
Wow this is incredible. “You killed her because finally when you could have saved her. When you could have ran away with her. When you could have been thinking about her. You were thinking about yourself” This quote was so impactful and tragic. This was the moment anakin was waiting for his whole life, but he was so corrupted by the dark side and hate that he screwed it up
that shit genuinely hurts me, it’s like his entire life he’s thinking about his goal, and when he’s finally close enough to grab it a moment of weakness rips it all away. One mistake threw away everything he had worked for
And even so, Vader’s hatred burns in his heart and he slowly walks upwards towards the medical, and as he screams in agony, his heart sets ablaze with etetnal abhorrence for the Jedi who took him from his mother, for Obi-Wan for maiming and leaving him for dead, for Palpatine for sentencing him to a lifeless suit of pain, and finally for Anakin Skywalker for killing his wife. Quote by me, James Tolbert. Copyright
"And within your furnace heart, you burn in your own flame" This is the saddest part, it means that after having done what he has done, after being what he has been or for everything he will be after that, the thing that Anakin hates the most on this universe for now is only himself. I really liked the movie, but reading the book certainly has added a lot more depth.
@TheCah13 Actually, I think there was a comic from way back where Vader fought Maul and he asked what he could possibly hate more than anything to which Vader responded: "Myself."
1:27 This is how it feels to be Anakin Skywalker, forever: The first dawn of light in your universe brings pain. The light burns you. It will always burn you. Part of you will always lie upon black glass sand beside a lake of fire while flames chew at your flesh. You can hear yourself breathing. It comes hard, and harsh, and it scrapes nerves already raw, but you cannot stop it. You can never stop it. You cannot even slow it down. You don’t even have lungs anymore. Mechanisms hardwired into your chest breathe for you. They will pump oxygen into your bloodstream forever. Lord Vader? Lord Vader, can you hear me? And you can’t, not in the way you once did. Sensors in the shell that prisons your head trickle meaning directly into your brain. You open your scorched-pale eyes; optical sensors integrate light and shadow into a hideous simulacrum of the world around you. Or perhaps the simulacrum is perfect, and it is the world that is hideous. Padme? Are you here? Are you all right? you try to say, but another voice speaks for you, out from the vocabulator that serves you for burned-away lips and tongue and throat. Padme? Are you here? Are you all right? I’m very sorry, Lord Vader. I’m afraid she died. It seems in your anger, you killed her. This burns hotter than the lava had. No…no, it is not possible! You love her. You have always loved her. You could never will her death. Never. But you remember… You remember all of it. You remember the dragon that you brought Vader forth from your heart to slay. You remember the cold venom in Vader’s blood. You remember the furnace of Vader’s fury, and the black hatred of seizing her throat to silence her lying mouth… And there is one blazing moment in which you finally understand that there was no dragon. That there was no Vader. That there was only you. Only Anakin Skywalker. That it was all you. Is you. Only you. You did it. You killed her. You killed her because, finally, when you could have saved her, when you could have gone away with her, when you could have been thinking about her, you were thinking about yourself… It is in this blazing moment that you finally understand the trap of the dark side, the final cruelty of the Sith - Because now yourself is all you will ever have. And you rage and scream and reach through the Force to crush the shadow who has destroyed you, but you are so far less now than what you were. You are more than half machine, you are like a painter gone blind, a composer gone deaf, you can remember where the power was but the power you can touch is only a memory, and so with all your world-destroying fury it is only droids around you that implode, and equipment, and the table on which you were strapped shatters, and in the end, you cannot touch the shadow. In the end, you do not even want to. In the end, the shadow is all you have left. Because the shadow understands you, the shadow forgives you, the shadow gathers you unto itself- And within your furnace heart, you burn in your own flame. This is how it feels to be Anakin Skywalker. Forever…
The amazing thing about this passage is that it makes Anakin's redemption make so much more sense. In the moments of becoming Vader, Anakin accepts the Shadow (aka Sideous) as the last thing he has - the Shadow that forgives, the Shadow that is all he has, almost like an abusive lover. Fastforward to Episode VI, Vader is redeemed by love - love for his only son, no longer alone in the universe. Man, I wish we'd gotten this guy to write the sequel trilogy...
This is why I dislike it when supplementary content depicts Sidious as frequently hostile and belittling toward Vader. I think it’s far more interesting for there to be this pretense of continued friendship between them up until RotJ. It makes it all the more impactful for him to finally experience genuine, unconditional love from his son, whom the Shadow then immediately begins to destroy. In that moment, his choice is obvious.
And this makes the last lines of the book even better. "The dark is generous, patient, and it always wins. But in the heart of it's strength, lies it's weakness. One lone candle is enough to hold it back. Love is more than a candle. Love can light up the stars." And that love, was for Luke.
It was the same for me too. The worst part is, Vader deserves it. No, ANAKIN deserves it. It's the perfect punishment for him. In a way, what personal Hell really is is summed up in this line: "Now yourself is all you can ever have."
The worst part is how, in the beginning, it’s clear that the extreme trauma basically woke him up from the Dark Side, so he awakens not remembering a thing of the last few days. Then it hits him, and the realization is so horrifying that it throws him back into the abyss even deeper than before.
"You don't even have lungs anymore." Am I the only one unnerved by that line? "There was no Vader, there was only you." And that's haunting. "The shadow is all you have left." So that's why he didn't try to get revenge.
The novel rightfully makes it clear it was both things. He was both too weak AND demotivated. So he accepted Sidious’ success in manipulating him and resigned to his fate. Although, after fitting more into his new Sith persona, we know he’ll eventually recover at least enough determination to solve the “not enough will to act” part of the problem. He just could never solve the power part.
I've always loved how Sidious described what Vader was to him here. The greatest of the Jedi, their Chosen One, caged both physically and mentally, on display for all the galaxy to see. Vader was his prize and a perfect symbol of the Sith's victory over the Jedi.
"It is in that blazing moment, that you finally understand the trap of the dark side. The final cruelty of the Sith. Because yourself, is all you'll EVER have." This line. This line is everything! Perfectly encapsulates everything the dark side is. It's why I always roll my eyes when some fans claim that the Jedi and the Sith are two sides of the same coin and that true "balance" is equal number light side members and equal dark side members. No, the Sith, the dark side, are all corruptions of what the Force is meant to be. You can't be a "Grey Jedi" the dark side only consumes, corrupts, and destroys everything around it. You can't control it, you can't bargain with it. You can only be consumed by it.
Nope. Sidious would have loved it if Anakin would never have been injured, because ruling over the galaxy would have been so much easier because Anakin was loved by the galaxy, however Vader wasnt know but he did strike fear into all who saw him.
"Of all the monsters I have created, I still regard Darth Vader as something of a minor masterpiece. No, he was not an entirely alchemical creation, but he was my monster nevertheless. Even though he failed to live up to his full potential, there was much pleasure in transforming Anakin Skywalker from a bright-eyed, tousle-headed youth into the greatest Jedi killer of all time. Yes, he ultimately turned against his Master, as monsters sometimes do, but that was my fault, not his. Given the opportunity to create Vader again, I would, and with zeal." ― Text from The Creation of Monsters, written by a resurrected emperor palpatine.
Even though he probably didn’t want Anakin to need that suit, he was more than happy to emotionally and mentally break Anakin. When you see Sidious smiling when Vader breaks free from the table, you know how happy he was to break Anakin.
Breaking him mentally and spiritually yes, physically nope. After Vader lost the duel on Mustafar Sidious actually wanted to kill him because he could not longer reach his full potential.
Read it. It's one of Legend's greatest creations. The fight between Anakin, Obi-Wan and Dooku alone is worth the price of the book. Or audiobook if you prefer.
The RotS novelization is absolutely phenomenal and I recommend anyone to read it. I love the RotS movie, it's my favorite Star Wars movie and always will be, but the book is amazing and adds so much more to the story. A Star Wars movie novelization had no right or need to be this good but it is.
I think one my favorite additions in the novel was that Anakin wasn't sleeping because he kept seeing Padme's death. This adds so much to pretty much everything that happens because he's so sleep deprived he's irrational, making impulsive decisions, he's growing paranoid, etc.
@@SyryuI also really liked that as well, he's can't sleep because of his nightmares and is constantly deprived of sleep. Meanwhile he's caught in the middle of the Council and Palpatine's feud, which would already be exhausting on its own without having to worry about your wife's death.
This really helps my case as why I believe nothing will ever be darker than Episode III. When you read a novel based on Episode III it gives you a lot more depth and it scares you a bit more. STAR WARS WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU??
Because there is only so much a film can show it's audience but a novel doesn't have that restriction. It can get into the character's head and show what they're thinking, their motivation, why are doing what they are are doing. It helps that Matthew Stover is an excellent wordsmith who can paint a visual picture of how someone is feeling in this novel and going into vivid detail.
Probably the most well written part of the novel. It comes off as very C.S. Lewis, reminds me of his descriptions of Hell in The Great Divorce. Anakin is in Hell, and its true nature is isolation. He is consumed by his own loneliness. Anakin must live with the guilt that he murdered the one he loved most, ended his chances of having a family again, and ended all he held dear. Now that he has nothing left to live for he gives complete reign to his worst impulses and lets his true darkness take over.
I love the book so much more than the film, and I wish Lucas would have done an extended cut for the home market. Limits on theatrical running times are ridiculous; they're just one reason why so many stories end up shafted in the narrative.
Just like the Harry Potter movies... This is the main reason why I preferred reading the books than watching the movies... Regarding ROTS, I really liked the movie (one of my favorite SW movies). But that last part of the book, describing Anakin's thoughts and feelings inside Vader's armor, is really scary and haunting. In some way, it always seems that books will always be superior to movies...
Star Wars will always be a film franchise first, books/comics/games come second. If you prefer the novels thats cool man, but the Novels don't contain more truth about the events in the films.
+Star Wars Blue Milk They contain the same truth, but in far greater detail. Reading a book allows you to get inside the thoughts of every character. It also allows the full story to be depicted. Plus it's usually good for your brain! :)
George said in the ROTS commentary that if he'd done everything he'd wanted in the original script, the movie would have been 4 hours long. I would murder a Youngling to see that version
I haven't read this book in nearly 20 years. I got chills and goosebumps just memorized by the execution of the audiobook's quality of adapting the novel, this editor's ability to perfectly edit the scene, and of course, Matthew Stover adapting George Lucas's screenplay. Even Stover has admitted that it was all there in George's script. Stover allowed us to understand what motivates these characters and why they are so revered in the Prequel Trilogy.
"His cut off legs and arm rolled into the molten lava below, and incinerated within moments in the sudden burst of scarlet flames. Anakin began to grievously crawl with his limb-stumps on the soft, black sand. But as he struggled, he only slipped further down. The sand itself was hot enough to melt off the glove from the duranium fingers duging deep into it. Flames were licking the edge of Anakin’s cape. His long hair began to turn black and char. Darth Vader was engolfed by fire."
This is such a tragic scene as the build up in the book has moments of This is what it feels like to be Anakin Skywalker for now...then it ends with forever.
@@paladinheadquarters7776 That’s deliberate. By now, Anakin is aware of how Sidious played him, he’s aware that Darth Vader is only an empty mask, but it’s a mask he’s willing to wear for the rest of his life, because it’s the only choice he has left. It’s incredibly tragic, but also a hint towards his future redemption: deep within his heart, Anakin always remained aware of who he truly was. The guilt for Padmè’s death never allowed him to forget.
@@paladinheadquarters7776 Its absolutely hilarious how you absolutely totally, completely, and utterly missed the point of what this entire passage of the novel, if not most of the novel when it comes to this subject, is trying to get across.
This is excellent! It's probably my favourite part of the novel, but also the saddest one, as Vader fully realizes his own tragedy. I like how you edited the clips to make a visual representation of it.
The way it describes how the suit makes Vader breath is terrifying. Constant discomfort and pain in more than one location and not being able to control it less the machine lets him die, which it won’t….Ever.
I have this audiobook, and I intend to listen to it soon, but I'm gonna have to have tissues handy because I might curl up into a sobbing ball. Just wanted to post the last few lines though from another video here. "The dark is generous, and it is patient and it always wins, But in the heart of its strength lies weakness, one lone candle is enough to hold it back. Love is more than a candle Love can ignite the stars" This is not the end. Love saved Anakin in the end. Love saved Luke and Leia. Anakin's last act was an act of love which fulfilled he prophecy and saved the Galaxy.
I remember listening to this for the first time. The breathing just sent chills down my spine and the whole description was top notch! The music was also a nice touch!
This is why anakin/vader is still the best character from the saga although I also really enjoy palpatine he has been working on this plan his whole life and now he has what he wants and enjoys it he laughs at everything yes even at vader
Lucasfilm: "Alright Matthew Stover. You will be the one to write the Revenge of the Sith novelization. Everyone who's seen the movie will meme it to death in a decade from now so no need to hit them hard with the book." Matthew Stover: 1:27-5:51
I know you're memeing but the book came out before the film, in case you didn't know. Stover has gone on record multiple with the statement that everything in the book is 100% George Lucas approved.
@@da-vidcargill4975 What reality? The reality where actual storytelling was thrown out the window to be replaced by corporate, agenda-driven propaganda? Nobody wants to live in that reality, buddy.
This novel puts the film to shame. Amazing writing. There's another line, from Yoda, that I absolutely LOVE: "to make a Jedi fall, even Sidious cannot: chose this Skywalker did". Best representation of the character as a whole. Vader and Anakin are not two different personslities, like a lot of fans seem to suggest. Exact same personality, just a different name once he'd made all the wrong choices!
Is this book really legends now? It's a novelization of one of the movies it has to be canon. There's absolutely nothing in it that would contradict anything Disney does with Star Wars in the future as it only expands upon and improves the movie's plot. Also, Disney should've gotten Matthew Stover and maybe a few other writers like James Luceno together to write the scripts for the sequels. We probably would've gotten Star Wars films that could be legitimate contenders for best picture rather than universally panned jokes.
Yeah, it's part of legends now, since the book mentions events and battles that were part of the old Clone Wars stories (pre-2008) and shown in comics published by Dark Horse and other novels.
Yes, but there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. The original Expanded Universe/Legends is just another continuity, no less valid than the Disney garbage. I'll take the original continuity over their uninspired mess any day.
I’ll never stop being surprised by how much better the prequel novels are than the movies It’s a shame. They could’ve been so much more. (They were the chosen ones).
@@sikid4000 it’s more about the the way the story is told. Both are different formates but both tell the same story but differently. There’s a magic to hearing words and interpreting what they mean in your head.
@@TeenWithACarrotIDK What was saying is the novel was able to delve into the meat and potatoes of the story and characters because of the movie well done story and characters
Even if Padme survived she would no doubt have been a founding member of the Rebellion. She probably would've started plotting assassinations on Vader.
@@Facade953 Being honest, this would be a better reason for his enragement of her at Mustafar than the feeling that she was cheating on him with Kenobi!
The dark side's power is temporary. It burns bright but lasts for only a brief moment. For what use is that power if it rots your being to the core leaving nothing but a memory of selfish and crazed being?
@@The_Admiral5 The light can be just as corrosive and corrupting and in alot of ways more evil than darkness itself. In the end you must have both and understand that in order to be at peace within your own self, you have to realize that you need the darkness as much as the light. You need both to be balanced. One cannot exist without the other.
@@BansheeKing22 not true as far as I know. The light is enharently good, but it isn’t absolute in any being. Even the highest ranking upon the Jedi are flawed in their own ways that aren’t due to the light, but rather because of slivers of darkness and grayness that still exists in them. This is how George intended it. It’s easy to see it not so, but I believe that to be the case. However, acknowledging your darkness and understanding how using it effects you is still as important in Star Wars as it is in real life. Sometimes the corner forces your hand, but you must not believe the darkness to be a substitute for anything.
Can you also a Revenge of the Sith novel for either a) the scene involving Anakin, Sidious and Mace, and Anakin falling to the dark side or b) Anakin, Padme and Obi-Wan and the duel on Mustafar?
@@alexdeghost2729 the CW multimedia project is canon to the novel. Stover kept it in mind and made sure the book was fully compatible, even referencing it. TCW on the other hand, isn't canon to the novel because it came out after. Stover had no way of knowing it would even exist, let alone to content.
+StarWarsStory u should give it a listen, its suppose to expand on this detailing hes struggles as life under the new suit and his attempts to bury anakin and embrace the new him
In the words of George Lucas, Anakin Skywalker was a sad man who made a deal with the devil and lost.
Austin Johnsen Vader wore black not because he was bad but because he was sad!
@@amel.923 You sound like Ian Mcdiarmend. He said that Palpatine is worse because at least Satan was good before he fell.
He defeated the devil evantually
@@ccl7983 Only for Disney to make him survive lol
@@crep5126 We don't talk about those movies.
3:50 "And there is one blazing moment in which you finally understand that there was no dragon. that there was no vader. that there was only *YOU* .. only Anakin Skywalker that it was all you.. *IS* you only you."
THANK YOU SO MUCH BUDDY
Thank You
This line sums up the tragedy of Vader perfectly. He is a monster of his own making. His choices led him to destroy his friends, his family, and, ultimately, himself.
So heavy
Matthew Stover deserves a medal for creating this book. The way he describes Vader’s transformation is perhaps one of the greatest of Star Wars legends. The narrator for the audio book did an amazing job too.
Narrator sounds like Jonathan Davis from Korn
Jonathan Davis. The master
@@dylanlevrets8988It is
It sounds like old propaganda or documentaries.
Works really well really for this
Agreed. Davis is my second favorite narrator for Star Wars, next to Marc Thompson.
Wow this is incredible.
“You killed her because finally when you could have saved her. When you could have ran away with her. When you could have been thinking about her. You were thinking about yourself”
This quote was so impactful and tragic. This was the moment anakin was waiting for his whole life, but he was so corrupted by the dark side and hate that he screwed it up
that shit genuinely hurts me, it’s like his entire life he’s thinking about his goal, and when he’s finally close enough to grab it a moment of weakness rips it all away. One mistake threw away everything he had worked for
@@error8119 man I really want a what if series where palpatine gets fucked up by windu
And even so, Vader’s hatred burns in his heart and he slowly walks upwards towards the medical, and as he screams in agony, his heart sets ablaze with etetnal abhorrence for the Jedi who took him from his mother, for Obi-Wan for maiming and leaving him for dead, for Palpatine for sentencing him to a lifeless suit of pain, and finally for Anakin Skywalker for killing his wife. Quote by me, James Tolbert. Copyright
"And within your furnace heart, you burn in your own flame"
This is the saddest part, it means that after having done what he has done, after being what he has been or for everything he will be after that, the thing that Anakin hates the most on this universe for now is only himself.
I really liked the movie, but reading the book certainly has added a lot more depth.
@TheCah13 Actually, I think there was a comic from way back where Vader fought Maul and he asked what he could possibly hate more than anything to which Vader responded: "Myself."
@@Webshooters1 actually I’m pretty sure it was a clone of Maul.
Amazing
im pretty sure he hate sands more
1:27
This is how it feels to be Anakin Skywalker, forever:
The first dawn of light in your universe brings pain.
The light burns you. It will always burn you. Part of you will always lie upon black glass sand beside a lake of fire while flames chew at your flesh.
You can hear yourself breathing. It comes hard, and harsh, and it scrapes nerves already raw, but you cannot stop it. You can never stop it. You cannot even slow it down.
You don’t even have lungs anymore.
Mechanisms hardwired into your chest breathe for you. They will pump oxygen into your bloodstream forever.
Lord Vader? Lord Vader, can you hear me?
And you can’t, not in the way you once did. Sensors in the shell that prisons your head trickle meaning directly into your brain.
You open your scorched-pale eyes; optical sensors integrate light and shadow into a hideous simulacrum of the world around you.
Or perhaps the simulacrum is perfect, and it is the world that is hideous.
Padme? Are you here? Are you all right? you try to say, but another voice speaks for you, out from the vocabulator that serves you for burned-away lips and tongue and throat.
Padme? Are you here? Are you all right?
I’m very sorry, Lord Vader. I’m afraid she died. It seems in your anger, you killed her.
This burns hotter than the lava had.
No…no, it is not possible!
You love her. You have always loved her. You could never will her death.
Never.
But you remember…
You remember all of it.
You remember the dragon that you brought Vader forth from your heart to slay. You remember the cold venom in Vader’s blood. You remember the furnace of Vader’s fury, and the black hatred of seizing her throat to silence her lying mouth…
And there is one blazing moment in which you finally understand that there was no dragon. That there was no Vader. That there was only you. Only Anakin Skywalker.
That it was all you. Is you.
Only you.
You did it.
You killed her.
You killed her because, finally, when you could have saved her, when you could have gone away with her, when you could have been thinking about her, you were thinking about yourself…
It is in this blazing moment that you finally understand the trap of the dark side, the final cruelty of the Sith -
Because now yourself is all you will ever have.
And you rage and scream and reach through the Force to crush the shadow who has destroyed you, but you are so far less now than what you were. You are more than half machine, you are like a painter gone blind, a composer gone deaf, you can remember where the power was but the power you can touch is only a memory, and so with all your world-destroying fury it is only droids around you that implode, and equipment, and the table on which you were strapped shatters, and in the end, you cannot touch the shadow.
In the end, you do not even want to.
In the end, the shadow is all you have left.
Because the shadow understands you, the shadow forgives you, the shadow gathers you unto itself-
And within your furnace heart, you burn in your own flame.
This is how it feels to be Anakin Skywalker.
Forever…
A movie novelization didn’t have to go this hard. I mean DAMN that was some artful writing.
"This is how it feels to be Anakin Skywalker...forever"
That last line is so damn deep
The amazing thing about this passage is that it makes Anakin's redemption make so much more sense. In the moments of becoming Vader, Anakin accepts the Shadow (aka Sideous) as the last thing he has - the Shadow that forgives, the Shadow that is all he has, almost like an abusive lover. Fastforward to Episode VI, Vader is redeemed by love - love for his only son, no longer alone in the universe. Man, I wish we'd gotten this guy to write the sequel trilogy...
This is why I dislike it when supplementary content depicts Sidious as frequently hostile and belittling toward Vader. I think it’s far more interesting for there to be this pretense of continued friendship between them up until RotJ. It makes it all the more impactful for him to finally experience genuine, unconditional love from his son, whom the Shadow then immediately begins to destroy. In that moment, his choice is obvious.
And this makes the last lines of the book even better.
"The dark is generous, patient, and it always wins. But in the heart of it's strength, lies it's weakness. One lone candle is enough to hold it back. Love is more than a candle. Love can light up the stars."
And that love, was for Luke.
The most haunting passage in any book I've ever read.
It was the same for me too. The worst part is, Vader deserves it. No, ANAKIN deserves it. It's the perfect punishment for him. In a way, what personal Hell really is is summed up in this line: "Now yourself is all you can ever have."
The worst part is how, in the beginning, it’s clear that the extreme trauma basically woke him up from the Dark Side, so he awakens not remembering a thing of the last few days. Then it hits him, and the realization is so horrifying that it throws him back into the abyss even deeper than before.
Those are the words i remember from the end of the book. I loved it and you felt for Anakin. "This is how it feels to be Anakin Skywalker... Forever."
"The light burns you, it will always burn you.
Part of you will always lie on black glass sand beside a lake of fire. "
-perfection-
"You don't even have lungs anymore." Am I the only one unnerved by that line?
"There was no Vader, there was only you." And that's haunting.
"The shadow is all you have left." So that's why he didn't try to get revenge.
@dflowers30 And he knew he was too weak to oppose him
The novel rightfully makes it clear it was both things. He was both too weak AND demotivated. So he accepted Sidious’ success in manipulating him and resigned to his fate.
Although, after fitting more into his new Sith persona, we know he’ll eventually recover at least enough determination to solve the “not enough will to act” part of the problem. He just could never solve the power part.
@@rickblaine9670 So, even if Vader did reach his full potential, he wouldn't overthrow Sidious because he was all Vader had left.
@@drmarioprojectm1510 He would eventually have, especially when he heard that Palpatine failed in saving Padme. Vader was also weaker than Palpatine.
@@eho6380 My thought process for what I said comes from "Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader"
I've always loved how Sidious described what Vader was to him here. The greatest of the Jedi, their Chosen One, caged both physically and mentally, on display for all the galaxy to see. Vader was his prize and a perfect symbol of the Sith's victory over the Jedi.
"It is in that blazing moment, that you finally understand the trap of the dark side. The final cruelty of the Sith. Because yourself, is all you'll EVER have."
This line. This line is everything! Perfectly encapsulates everything the dark side is. It's why I always roll my eyes when some fans claim that the Jedi and the Sith are two sides of the same coin and that true "balance" is equal number light side members and equal dark side members. No, the Sith, the dark side, are all corruptions of what the Force is meant to be. You can't be a "Grey Jedi" the dark side only consumes, corrupts, and destroys everything around it. You can't control it, you can't bargain with it. You can only be consumed by it.
the Force is cannibalistic by nature
I bet Sidious enjoyed breaking Anakin. From hero of the Republic to a broken man who is merely a shadow of who he once was.
Nope. Sidious would have loved it if Anakin would never have been injured, because ruling over the galaxy would have been so much easier because Anakin was loved by the galaxy, however Vader wasnt know but he did strike fear into all who saw him.
@@sethmiles9436 no. Lol
"Of all the monsters I have created, I still regard Darth Vader as something of a minor masterpiece. No, he was not an entirely alchemical creation, but he was my monster nevertheless. Even though he failed to live up to his full potential, there was much pleasure in transforming Anakin Skywalker from a bright-eyed, tousle-headed youth into the greatest Jedi killer of all time. Yes, he ultimately turned against his Master, as monsters sometimes do, but that was my fault, not his. Given the opportunity to create Vader again, I would, and with zeal."
― Text from The Creation of Monsters, written by a resurrected emperor palpatine.
Even though he probably didn’t want Anakin to need that suit, he was more than happy to emotionally and mentally break Anakin. When you see Sidious smiling when Vader breaks free from the table, you know how happy he was to break Anakin.
Breaking him mentally and spiritually yes, physically nope. After Vader lost the duel on Mustafar Sidious actually wanted to kill him because he could not longer reach his full potential.
“Perhaps the simulacrum is perfect, and it is the world that is hideous.”
This description of Vader's transformation really draws me to want to read the actual book to see just how deeply it expands on Episode 3
GreenFanboy7 you should check it out. To be honest, a lot of people consider it better than the movie.
Cordyceps Helm I'm inclined to agree.
Read it. It's one of Legend's greatest creations.
The fight between Anakin, Obi-Wan and Dooku alone is worth the price of the book. Or audiobook if you prefer.
You should absolutely read it. It expands on the movie a lot.
Best novelization in Star Wars history, by far. One of the greatest Star Wars books ever written.
The RotS novelization is absolutely phenomenal and I recommend anyone to read it. I love the RotS movie, it's my favorite Star Wars movie and always will be, but the book is amazing and adds so much more to the story. A Star Wars movie novelization had no right or need to be this good but it is.
I think one my favorite additions in the novel was that Anakin wasn't sleeping because he kept seeing Padme's death. This adds so much to pretty much everything that happens because he's so sleep deprived he's irrational, making impulsive decisions, he's growing paranoid, etc.
@@SyryuI also really liked that as well, he's can't sleep because of his nightmares and is constantly deprived of sleep. Meanwhile he's caught in the middle of the Council and Palpatine's feud, which would already be exhausting on its own without having to worry about your wife's death.
Matthew Stover went SO HARD with the ROTS novelisation and I, for one, am grateful
This really helps my case as why I believe nothing will ever be darker than Episode III. When you read a novel based on Episode III it gives you a lot more depth and it scares you a bit more.
STAR WARS WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU??
KotOR II can be pretty damn close in how depressing it is. It’s my favorite Star Wars story, but damn if RotS isn’t a close second.
Really? 'Cause the Bane trilogy gets pretty fucked up honestly
Because there is only so much a film can show it's audience but a novel doesn't have that restriction. It can get into the character's head and show what they're thinking, their motivation, why are doing what they are are doing. It helps that Matthew Stover is an excellent wordsmith who can paint a visual picture of how someone is feeling in this novel and going into vivid detail.
Jesus Christ, this is awesome.
I mean, I've read the book (which was magnificent), but with proper audio... Wow.
I know, right? This is just an awesome combination of excitement, tragedy, and terror. I especially love the more human breathing that was added.
And thankfully this is not the end but a momentary gap!-)+
I'm getting the novelization really soon! Revenge of the sith is literally the best movie from the saga so I can't wait to read the novel
Probably the most well written part of the novel. It comes off as very C.S. Lewis, reminds me of his descriptions of Hell in The Great Divorce. Anakin is in Hell, and its true nature is isolation. He is consumed by his own loneliness. Anakin must live with the guilt that he murdered the one he loved most, ended his chances of having a family again, and ended all he held dear. Now that he has nothing left to live for he gives complete reign to his worst impulses and lets his true darkness take over.
This was, and still remains, one of the most haunting passages I have ever had the pleasure of reading in modern fiction literature.
I love the book so much more than the film, and I wish Lucas would have done an extended cut for the home market. Limits on theatrical running times are ridiculous; they're just one reason why so many stories end up shafted in the narrative.
Just like the Harry Potter movies... This is the main reason why I preferred reading the books than watching the movies... Regarding ROTS, I really liked the movie (one of my favorite SW movies). But that last part of the book, describing Anakin's thoughts and feelings inside Vader's armor, is really scary and haunting.
In some way, it always seems that books will always be superior to movies...
Star Wars will always be a film franchise first, books/comics/games come second. If you prefer the novels thats cool man, but the Novels don't contain more truth about the events in the films.
+Star Wars Blue Milk They contain the same truth, but in far greater detail. Reading a book allows you to get inside the thoughts of every character. It also allows the full story to be depicted. Plus it's usually good for your brain! :)
George said in the ROTS commentary that if he'd done everything he'd wanted in the original script, the movie would have been 4 hours long.
I would murder a Youngling to see that version
Corrupt Angel Why not a young Tusken Raider?
I haven't read this book in nearly 20 years. I got chills and goosebumps just memorized by the execution of the audiobook's quality of adapting the novel, this editor's ability to perfectly edit the scene, and of course, Matthew Stover adapting George Lucas's screenplay. Even Stover has admitted that it was all there in George's script. Stover allowed us to understand what motivates these characters and why they are so revered in the Prequel Trilogy.
This is still one of the most chilling things I've ever read.
"His cut off legs and arm rolled into the molten lava below, and incinerated within moments in the sudden burst of scarlet flames. Anakin began to grievously crawl with his limb-stumps on the soft, black sand. But as he struggled, he only slipped further down. The sand itself was hot enough to melt off the glove from the duranium fingers duging deep into it. Flames were licking the edge of Anakin’s cape. His long hair began to turn black and char. Darth Vader was engolfed by fire."
“This is how it feels to be Anakin Skywalker.
Forever.”
Goddamn Matthew that’s fucking raw.
This is why the revenge of the sith novelisation is the best Star Wars book of all time and will always be
I still view it as canon
Probably the best in depth look into the fall of Anakin Skywalker
This is such a tragic scene as the build up in the book has moments of This is what it feels like to be Anakin Skywalker for now...then it ends with forever.
It was wise to skip the 'Noooooooooooo!' part of the script.
there was never a no part in the book. book was so much better and had more in depth.
The quote "This is how it feels to be Anakin Skywalker...forever" is absolutely haunting
@@SolarDragon007 though he became Vader, not Anakin anymore.
@@paladinheadquarters7776 That’s deliberate. By now, Anakin is aware of how Sidious played him, he’s aware that Darth Vader is only an empty mask, but it’s a mask he’s willing to wear for the rest of his life, because it’s the only choice he has left. It’s incredibly tragic, but also a hint towards his future redemption: deep within his heart, Anakin always remained aware of who he truly was. The guilt for Padmè’s death never allowed him to forget.
@@paladinheadquarters7776 Its absolutely hilarious how you absolutely totally, completely, and utterly missed the point of what this entire passage of the novel, if not most of the novel when it comes to this subject, is trying to get across.
Reading it was heartbreaking enough. Hearing it is even worse. You can actually hear the pain and torment.
This is excellent! It's probably my favourite part of the novel, but also the saddest one, as Vader fully realizes his own tragedy. I like how you edited the clips to make a visual representation of it.
This is horrific and sad. Anakin didn’t deserve this fate. I have chills.💔
Here. take my heart. I don't need it anyways.
The way it describes how the suit makes Vader breath is terrifying. Constant discomfort and pain in more than one location and not being able to control it less the machine lets him die, which it won’t….Ever.
I have this audiobook, and I intend to listen to it soon, but I'm gonna have to have tissues handy because I might curl up into a sobbing ball.
Just wanted to post the last few lines though from another video here.
"The dark is generous, and it is patient and it always wins,
But in the heart of its strength lies weakness,
one lone candle is enough to hold it back.
Love is more than a candle
Love can ignite the stars"
This is not the end. Love saved Anakin in the end. Love saved Luke and Leia. Anakin's last act was an act of love which fulfilled he prophecy and saved the Galaxy.
I remember listening to this for the first time. The breathing just sent chills down my spine and the whole description was top notch! The music was also a nice touch!
Vader, the greatest treasure of the Sith. Brilliant
I'd love a novelization of Return of The Jedi that discusses Vaders redemption back into Anakin as elegantly as this
I agree 100%! That novel has to be re-written, in the sophisticated elegance of this novel!
This is why anakin/vader is still the best character from the saga although I also really enjoy palpatine he has been working on this plan his whole life and now he has what he wants and enjoys it he laughs at everything yes even at vader
I'm actually in tears bye
What's that cracking sound? Oh, it's just my heart.
Vader: *Dark Lord of the Sith* ❌
Vader: *Anakin's Coping Mechanism* ✅
Lucasfilm: "Alright Matthew Stover. You will be the one to write the Revenge of the Sith novelization. Everyone who's seen the movie will meme it to death in a decade from now so no need to hit them hard with the book."
Matthew Stover: 1:27-5:51
I know you're memeing but the book came out before the film, in case you didn't know. Stover has gone on record multiple with the statement that everything in the book is 100% George Lucas approved.
This book and the rest of the EU is the real Star Wars.
well the rest of us will be living in reality
Edward Antonowicz I agreed it will be always the old star wars we all grew up with
@@da-vidcargill4975 What reality? The reality where actual storytelling was thrown out the window to be replaced by corporate, agenda-driven propaganda? Nobody wants to live in that reality, buddy.
Jonathan davis is the greatest book narrator that has ever lived
I'd say he's second for me after Marc Thompson
This maybe the best audiobook ever.
I loved the movie and I love the book. This is the magic that DIsney/NuLucasfilm is missing, when I see their stuff I feel nothing.
3:51 is where the sound on tiktok came from I think for anyone else who wanted to find it
You should do another part of the novel, this is phenomenal!
This is beautiful work! I must acquire myself the novelization or this audiobook.
why am i crying, i already know how this story ends
Any one of us can be in the shoes of the Skywalkers.
That breathing in the background is what makes it unnerving
3:50 fucking chills. You did it
In the end, he didn’t come back. He just chose to forgive himself.
The dark is generous
This novel puts the film to shame. Amazing writing. There's another line, from Yoda, that I absolutely LOVE: "to make a Jedi fall, even Sidious cannot: chose this Skywalker did".
Best representation of the character as a whole. Vader and Anakin are not two different personslities, like a lot of fans seem to suggest. Exact same personality, just a different name once he'd made all the wrong choices!
Can you put the Duel between Obi-wan Anakin and Dooku? and maybe the Dooku chapter.
Thanks for uploading this
That was the first book i cry while reading it
Is this book really legends now? It's a novelization of one of the movies it has to be canon. There's absolutely nothing in it that would contradict anything Disney does with Star Wars in the future as it only expands upon and improves the movie's plot.
Also, Disney should've gotten Matthew Stover and maybe a few other writers like James Luceno together to write the scripts for the sequels. We probably would've gotten Star Wars films that could be legitimate contenders for best picture rather than universally panned jokes.
Yeah, it's part of legends now, since the book mentions events and battles that were part of the old Clone Wars stories (pre-2008) and shown in comics published by Dark Horse and other novels.
Yes, but there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. The original Expanded Universe/Legends is just another continuity, no less valid than the Disney garbage.
I'll take the original continuity over their uninspired mess any day.
Dude!
At this point, we say:
Fuck Disney!
May it be fucked to shredds by complete and total bankrupcy!
Maybe the craziest shit I ever heard
This feels like the fallout 1 intro
The Shadow = Sidious
InSidious
InVader
I’ll never stop being surprised by how much better the prequel novels are than the movies It’s a shame. They could’ve been so much more. (They were the chosen ones).
Did you want a narrator speaking over the movie? The novelizations are good because the movies are good.
@@sikid4000 it’s more about the the way the story is told. Both are different formates but both tell the same story but differently. There’s a magic to hearing words and interpreting what they mean in your head.
@@TeenWithACarrotIDK What was saying is the novel was able to delve into the meat and potatoes of the story and characters because of the movie well done story and characters
Not forever, just a start up for the true forever, which is in light!-)+
I love jason, freddy, leatherface, pinhead, and Michael Myers, but vader is the best villain, the best monster.
Lol
CRYING
1:30 chills
Even if Padme survived she would no doubt have been a founding member of the Rebellion.
She probably would've started plotting assassinations on Vader.
In a draft of Episode III, Padme would have brought a knife with her to stab Anakin but she wouldn't have been able to do it.
@@Facade953 Being honest, this would be a better reason for his enragement of her at Mustafar than the feeling that she was cheating on him with Kenobi!
@@PedroLucas-mg5je Indeed.
Nah she would never
Nah she would never
Amazing! Excellent voice…excellent content! 🙏🏼
The dark is generous and patient, and it always wins.
For every victory of the light, it is the dark that wins.
Corrupt Angel But even the smallest candle can drive back the dark, and love will ignite the stars.
The dark side's power is temporary. It burns bright but lasts for only a brief moment. For what use is that power if it rots your being to the core leaving nothing but a memory of selfish and crazed being?
@@The_Admiral5 The light can be just as corrosive and corrupting and in alot of ways more evil than darkness itself. In the end you must have both and understand that in order to be at peace within your own self, you have to realize that you need the darkness as much as the light. You need both to be balanced. One cannot exist without the other.
@@BansheeKing22 lol
@@BansheeKing22 not true as far as I know. The light is enharently good, but it isn’t absolute in any being. Even the highest ranking upon the Jedi are flawed in their own ways that aren’t due to the light, but rather because of slivers of darkness and grayness that still exists in them.
This is how George intended it. It’s easy to see it not so, but I believe that to be the case.
However, acknowledging your darkness and understanding how using it effects you is still as important in Star Wars as it is in real life. Sometimes the corner forces your hand, but you must not believe the darkness to be a substitute for anything.
Sideous saw Vader as a perfect sith artifact the chosen one charred betrayed broken yet fixed anew and contained within a walking coffin...
This is Star Wars
Can you also a Revenge of the Sith novel for either a) the scene involving Anakin, Sidious and Mace, and Anakin falling to the dark side or b) Anakin, Padme and Obi-Wan and the duel on Mustafar?
Eric Graham I'll look into it :p No promises though :p I wasn't planning on doing more but we'll see...
@@StarWarsStory We will see
start listening to cigarettes out the window slowed instrumental at 3:00, Gives it more of a vibe
Those poor ppls, whos like the movie, and don't read the book.
Is this the same guy that did the Darth bane audio books?
+Jordan Duggan yes
Hey have him do a lot of the star wars audio books.
impeccable
Woah.
Does anyone know how to find this without the background music?
I'm in CHILLS
I wouldn’t mind Matt Stover writing a description of Vader turning back to the light and saving Luke
Brilliant! :) thank you
I read the description of this video, may I ask what part of the films did better, and vice versa?
Who else is here after Kenobi's third episode?
Is the novel still canon? Cause the book was so good maybe better than the movie
You bet it is.
Anyone know the name of the song that starts at 0:17?
Imagine if this book also had the context of the Clone Wars. Ahsoka, Rex and such.
It has
The real Clone Wars
as depicted in the Multimedia Project
@@caiosilva2167 Well that's non canon...and inferior.
@@alexdeghost2729 because it doesn't have Ahsoka forcing her way into a story she never belonged to ?
@@alexdeghost2729 the CW multimedia project is canon to the novel. Stover kept it in mind and made sure the book was fully compatible, even referencing it. TCW on the other hand, isn't canon to the novel because it came out after. Stover had no way of knowing it would even exist, let alone to content.
@@caiosilva2167 real ones remember Jabime and alpha 17
Holy shit this is awesome! good work!
is it better to listen to this audiobook before rise of darth vader or after? ive seen all the films
+H.C Ive never read the rise of Darth Vader but I imagine this first would be better.
+StarWarsStory u should give it a listen, its suppose to expand on this detailing hes struggles as life under the new suit and his attempts to bury anakin and embrace the new him
+StarWarsStory actually rise of darth vader better but this is good to
Before
Matthew Stover is a wordsmith.
Nice But Why Is The Description Like This?
Where can I purchase this masterpiece?
Audible?
@@StarWarsStory Okay.
@@Spoomis That's where I got it**
@@StarWarsStory I will get the free trial and use my credit to get it.
... forever.
"This is what it feels to be Anakin Skywalker, now and forever... 😞
Vader's Birth Is Anakin's Death...
Vaders birth is the beginning of Anakin’s true suffering.
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