Anakin's thoughts should've been: "How could I have allowed myself to be fooled by that prune-faced bastard???" "I should've let Mace Windu kill him when I had the chance." "I should've listened to Obi-wan when he told me not to jump after him. I wouldn't be in that suit if I hadn't tried to kill him." "If only I had taken Yoda's advice about letting go of my fears, Padme would still be alive and we would've raised our kids together".
Ugh, the description of Anakin’s damage and Vader’s purposely ill-fitting suit makes me feel physically sick to my stomach. We knew Palpatine was cruel, but how he could take such deliberate delight in inflicting so much constant pain is beyond comprehension. That shot of Hayden in the bacta tank, staring out us with hate and fury in his eyes is hypnotic. I love that shot. Only he could have played that part with such intimate knowledge and conviction. Great video!
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…
Matthew Stover did an absolutely AMAZING job with the ROTS novelization. That portion you quoted masterfully summarizes the tragedy Anakin endures in that moment, waking up and discovering he has become this Frankenstein-like monstrosity
Curiously in one of the books the surgery was very quick, was like put new limbs here, arms there, your apparatus and put on the suit, like sausage in the hot dog. But in the novelization lasted at least a week 💀
Wait, so of Darth Vader couldn’t secretly get better prosthetics and a more comfortable suit without no apparent outward changes? He appeared to have so much autonomy as a Sith Lord in the original trilogy.
He learned over time to adapt to the suit and work WITH its faults rather than AGAINST. Additionally, the problems and pain it gave actually helped his use of the dark side in a way, the pain and discomfort keeping him in a perpetual bad mood, feeding his anger, and thereby strengthening his connection to the dark side of the Force
@FrancisWilly96 Yes.... you do realize General Grevious was once a person and Palpatind had him built too, right? And they only had organs to work with... They had far better tech available.
I have always wondered. Did force users feel what was going on , on mustafar? We know that Sidious did, what about Master Yoda, and surviving Jedi? What about regular people. Was the force shaking, sending out shockwaves? Stuff like that
Questions. 1. When Obi-Wan took Anakin's lightsaber, was it to hand it to his wife/kids, or was this a gesture that he wasn't worthy of a Jedi weapon? 2. Did Palpatine withhold pain reliving medications, to punish Vader for failing? 3. I always assumed that the suit Vader was given was a temporary one, to sustain his life - that the final suit would be tailored once the specs of the injuries were better understood; no one could've envisaged damage on this scale and have the final suit ready? 4. How long after Anakin/Vader was in his suit, was Padme's funeral organized? Did Vader know, or block it out? Did he attend from a remote point, like a shuttle etc? All we see is Vader looking at the DS1.. His mind must've wondered how Obi-Wan delivered her body and what was said about how she died? Her staff knew Vader killed her - did they wonder about the pregnancy? She was very much due to give birth.. even Palpatine (from Naboo) must've spared a thought? From the final context, I understood that the fire was symbolic of Anakin growing up. He was free of Obi-Wan's guidance. Palpatine didn't want someone learning; someone who knew and would execute an order on command. Someone who'd grow into the dark side, like he did.
1) a lightsaber is rare and pwerful weapon. Anakin couldnt be trusted with one, Jedi do not let fallen Jedi keep their weapons, it might come in handy in the future 2)Yes, and to let his pain fuel his power in the darkside 3) No, its the final suit. The real reason it was designed this way is because it was already made this way in the 70's when a new hope came out. After grevious was introduced and he was much more advanced than vader, they had to retcon its construction to be intentional. They also have some throw away lines about how upgrading the suit would likely kill vader in the books. 4) IRL funerals are like within the week of the death, likely just a few days. It's unlikely Vader went.
I thank you for this video’😊 it pictures of Darth Vader‘s pain, suffering, and struggles. I Admire Vader. With all that struggles still manage to take the galaxy in the His grasp and spread fear throughout.
The suit most definitely did not limit vader. It actually enhanced his power beyond anything that was physically capable when he was Anakin. In a comic released called Darth Vader Black, White, and Red, Darth Vader had his helmet torn from his face and his life support system was impaled. Despite these massive injuries, Vader fought through the pain and was able to kill all of the adversaries in the comic. Vader was physically more than Anakin could ever hope to be in many ways.
@@rocketjohnny3173 Maybe so, but that potential means nothing in retrospect, becuase he never reached it. Setting that aside, Vader was far more powerful than Anakin due to his immersion in the dark side.
Yes. It annoys me when they call him Anakin. From the time he pledged allegiance to Sidious to when he threw him down the reactor core, he was Darth Vader.
yes and no. Anakin did become Vader before Mustafar, but after his injuries is when he truly considered himself a different man and the man he would be for (essentially) the rest of his life. His thought process changed, his fighting style, his connection to the force, his goals, his motivation, his world view, everything changed. Yes Anakin committed acts under the name of Vader before the burns, but he wasn't quite the Vader we'd come to know in the original trilogy.
@@bboyfan22 He was the same vader that we see in the original trilogy. He walked liked him and talked like him. In the revenge of the sith novelization (which is based on George Lucas' own thoughts) vader considered himself a different person the second he became vader, but at the end, he knew that he had always had it in him to be vader.
@@QuintonLiebhart Anakin always had it in him to be a homicidal lunatic. Presuit Vader was Anakin with his allegiance against the Jedi, and Vader after the suit was Anakin with no one left to care about. Vader's rationalization was that Padme was going to die, Sidious had the knowledge to save her, the Jedi were going to kill Sidious, therefore the Jedi were going to cause Padme's death and had to die. Every one of them.
Vaders “redemption arch” in the original trilogy is the perfect example of why SW has always featured terrible writing and character “development”. Why people get so pissy and offended by new gen bad writing makes me chuckle. It’s always, since the 70’s, been Mary Sue centric bad dialogue bad writing cheap plot.
Anakin's thoughts should've been:
"How could I have allowed myself to be fooled by that prune-faced bastard???"
"I should've let Mace Windu kill him when I had the chance."
"I should've listened to Obi-wan when he told me not to jump after him. I wouldn't be in that suit if I hadn't tried to kill him."
"If only I had taken Yoda's advice about letting go of my fears, Padme would still be alive and we would've raised our kids together".
He was thinking “I should not have jumped”
Ugh, the description of Anakin’s damage and Vader’s purposely ill-fitting suit makes me feel physically sick to my stomach. We knew Palpatine was cruel, but how he could take such deliberate delight in inflicting so much constant pain is beyond comprehension.
That shot of Hayden in the bacta tank, staring out us with hate and fury in his eyes is hypnotic. I love that shot. Only he could have played that part with such intimate knowledge and conviction.
Great video!
'I messed up. None of this was what I had intended, f***!!!'
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…
Matthew Stover did an absolutely AMAZING job with the ROTS novelization. That portion you quoted masterfully summarizes the tragedy Anakin endures in that moment, waking up and discovering he has become this Frankenstein-like monstrosity
@@fightingfalcon777 At least until he learns of Luke being his son.
@@cadeshanley218 JUZT ABOUT TO SAY "UNTiL LUKE" MYSELF ! OR UNTiL VADER DiED
[NOT YELLiNG, JUZT LiKE TYPiNG iN CAPZ]
@@TYKZY.BRANX._TEEK.SEE.BRANCH.Almost thought you were a spammer that said I "won" something.
@@cadeshanley218 O 4 FUCKZ SAKE, NO. GLAD U READ iT THOUGH
"Chancellor Palpatine is a friend. I trust him"
I remember in empire strikes back when you get that 1 quick look at Vader in his isolation chamber,not sure if he’s human or all machine.
So Palpatine puts Anakin in a prison because of his failure 😢😢😭😭
That is how it feels to be Anakin Skywalker...Forever.
Cud of left him to burn to death
Curiously in one of the books the surgery was very quick, was like put new limbs here, arms there, your apparatus and put on the suit, like sausage in the hot dog.
But in the novelization lasted at least a week 💀
Love the background music. Great channel!
i feel sorry for Vader
Wait, so of Darth Vader couldn’t secretly get better prosthetics and a more comfortable suit without no apparent outward changes? He appeared to have so much autonomy as a Sith Lord in the original trilogy.
He deliberately chose not to
He learned over time to adapt to the suit and work WITH its faults rather than AGAINST. Additionally, the problems and pain it gave actually helped his use of the dark side in a way, the pain and discomfort keeping him in a perpetual bad mood, feeding his anger, and thereby strengthening his connection to the dark side of the Force
@FrancisWilly96
Yes.... you do realize General Grevious was once a person and Palpatind had him built too, right? And they only had organs to work with... They had far better tech available.
Very dark description of Vader's transformation. Good video
I have always wondered. Did force users feel what was going on , on mustafar? We know that Sidious did, what about Master Yoda, and surviving Jedi? What about regular people. Was the force shaking, sending out shockwaves? Stuff like that
Anakin's thoughts, "I hate Mondays." .
Now that's dark😨
Great video dude
Thank you! 🙏
awesome, thanks for the upload
What insights! I never would have thought of! Ty for sharing
100% Sad😢😮.
Questions.
1. When Obi-Wan took Anakin's lightsaber, was it to hand it to his wife/kids, or was this a gesture that he wasn't worthy of a Jedi weapon?
2. Did Palpatine withhold pain reliving medications, to punish Vader for failing?
3. I always assumed that the suit Vader was given was a temporary one, to sustain his life - that the final suit would be tailored once the specs of the injuries were better understood; no one could've envisaged damage on this scale and have the final suit ready?
4. How long after Anakin/Vader was in his suit, was Padme's funeral organized? Did Vader know, or block it out? Did he attend from a remote point, like a shuttle etc? All we see is Vader looking at the DS1.. His mind must've wondered how Obi-Wan delivered her body and what was said about how she died? Her staff knew Vader killed her - did they wonder about the pregnancy? She was very much due to give birth.. even Palpatine (from Naboo) must've spared a thought?
From the final context, I understood that the fire was symbolic of Anakin growing up. He was free of Obi-Wan's guidance. Palpatine didn't want someone learning; someone who knew and would execute an order on command. Someone who'd grow into the dark side, like he did.
1) a lightsaber is rare and pwerful weapon. Anakin couldnt be trusted with one, Jedi do not let fallen Jedi keep their weapons, it might come in handy in the future
2)Yes, and to let his pain fuel his power in the darkside
3) No, its the final suit. The real reason it was designed this way is because it was already made this way in the 70's when a new hope came out. After grevious was introduced and he was much more advanced than vader, they had to retcon its construction to be intentional. They also have some throw away lines about how upgrading the suit would likely kill vader in the books.
4) IRL funerals are like within the week of the death, likely just a few days. It's unlikely Vader went.
I thank you for this video’😊 it pictures of Darth Vader‘s pain, suffering, and struggles. I Admire Vader. With all that struggles still manage to take the galaxy in the His grasp and spread fear throughout.
And that was just a Tuesday.
The suit most definitely did not limit vader. It actually enhanced his power beyond anything that was physically capable when he was Anakin. In a comic released called Darth Vader Black, White, and Red, Darth Vader had his helmet torn from his face and his life support system was impaled. Despite these massive injuries, Vader fought through the pain and was able to kill all of the adversaries in the comic. Vader was physically more than Anakin could ever hope to be in many ways.
Anakin still had more force potential tho
@@rocketjohnny3173 Maybe so, but that potential means nothing in retrospect, becuase he never reached it. Setting that aside, Vader was far more powerful than Anakin due to his immersion in the dark side.
@@theunknowncell442 true dat
This is exactly what Vader asked for. He was begging for this tbh
Gotta do a what if anakin didn't lose his limps but kenobi survived
So tragic
Retney Holocron uploaded say less
Definitely non-force user would have never made...seeing how it was excruciating for Vader.
Anakin- I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything is soft and smooth.
a sad storry... he was a selfysh child... so sad😢
The reality is that he was probably drugged to extent. He needed Functionality
Anakin became Vader when Sidious LITERALLY told him that his new name was Darth Vader....not when he was put into the suit.
Yes. It annoys me when they call him Anakin. From the time he pledged allegiance to Sidious to when he threw him down the reactor core, he was Darth Vader.
yes and no. Anakin did become Vader before Mustafar, but after his injuries is when he truly considered himself a different man and the man he would be for (essentially) the rest of his life. His thought process changed, his fighting style, his connection to the force, his goals, his motivation, his world view, everything changed. Yes Anakin committed acts under the name of Vader before the burns, but he wasn't quite the Vader we'd come to know in the original trilogy.
@@bboyfan22 He was the same vader that we see in the original trilogy. He walked liked him and talked like him. In the revenge of the sith novelization (which is based on George Lucas' own thoughts) vader considered himself a different person the second he became vader, but at the end, he knew that he had always had it in him to be vader.
To me to be honest it’s difficult to believe Anakin became Darth Vader before he was burned and then rebuilt into a Cyborg
@@QuintonLiebhart Anakin always had it in him to be a homicidal lunatic. Presuit Vader was Anakin with his allegiance against the Jedi, and Vader after the suit was Anakin with no one left to care about.
Vader's rationalization was that Padme was going to die, Sidious had the knowledge to save her, the Jedi were going to kill Sidious, therefore the Jedi were going to cause Padme's death and had to die. Every one of them.
More like "oooowwww"
Real💯💯💯.🙏🏽🩸
NNNNNNOOOOOOO
Vaders “redemption arch” in the original trilogy is the perfect example of why SW has always featured terrible writing and character “development”. Why people get so pissy and offended by new gen bad writing makes me chuckle. It’s always, since the 70’s, been Mary Sue centric bad dialogue bad writing cheap plot.
Wow, it’s crazy how much shit you blabber
What's your beef with star wars?
Anakin could've fixed it but he kept it as is because the constant discomfort helped fuel his anger and the power of the dark side.
Probably "OW OW OW OW FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK"
You and two other youtubers I watch do great jobs on Star Wars lore
Him and stupendous wave I would say
@@waterbender9939 star wars theory has some good lore too