The Wounds Of Those Parted By Death Can Never Heal, Huh........

“The wounds of those parted by death can never heal”, huh........

The worst villain meta:

I actually really love [villain]. But not like silly [fans of character], haha. I love them because they’re so one-dimensionally flawed! [Character] is such a great representative of [hateful group] and really shows how those people emerge from nowhere and exemplify [issue catchphrase]. [Context] and [circumstance] don’t matter, only choices, and that’s such an important message. 

But fans make them out to be [anything but raw evil] and it’s so sad that they’ve missed the point. They don’t love the real character, just their woobified version. I’m the one who really loves them!

ANAKIN SKYWALKER Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)

when you’re only ten and nothing makes sense and your teacher/brother/dad goes and gets himself critically injured on a mission 

(it’s young obi-wan and even younger anakin angst hours)

part 2

I find it very interesting that Anakin doesn’t fit the mold of conventional masculinity (he’s openly emotional, sensitive, etc.) yet was taught to suppress his emotions and be socially detached. One has to wonder if George Lucas had a message there. As a sensitive guy myself, I think it’s totally fine if a man is naturally less emotional, but all guys need to feel safe so they can be vulnerable and process what they feel (e.g. mourning a loved one, feeling lonely, dealing with trauma, etc.).

Anakin Skywalker is ‘female-coded’ and that’s a hill I’m willing to die on. Anakin feels so different from the typical male hero because his most recognizable characteristics are characteristics usually associated with female characters: emotional instability, grief, tears, romance, abuse, victimization etc. 

That’s also why so many adult male fans (especially from the older generation) rejected the character. they didn’t see themselves or the male heroes they wanted to be on Anakin’s story. 

That being said, I don’t believe that was George’s intention. I think George wanted to write a characters that was naïve, good and unstable and he ended up with a character a stoic generation plagued by toxic masculinity couldn’t accept. I don’t think he was trying to break social, gender barriers or anything like that. I mean, Anakin wasn’t an ‘accident’ but he wasn’t designed to repel certain fans either. George made Anakin ‘soft’ and vulnerable when so many men wanted him to be a suitless Vader and nothing else. of course, ‘softness’ is not a characteristic most male heroes were allowed to be, it’s something for ‘girls’.