Anakin's redemption
May. 20th, 2005 11:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dangermousieThis is probably my last post before Monday, 30th, as I am going to Spain.
I was thinking of the fact that Palpatine doesn't realize there isn't much tying Anakin to the Sith, and that is his downfall. Anakin turns and grovels (I cannot bear to watch that scene) because he thinks after he's killed Mace that he is irredeemably damned anyway now (I can't see old-school Jedi being much on redemption and forgiveness), and he might as well try to do the best he can and save Padme. But with Padme dead, that carrot that Palpatine had is gone (I think he'd dispose of her eventually anyway, if she survived, because he didn't want Anakin to have a "good angel"). And Anakin never is much into power or torture for the enjoyment of it. Thus, the only reason, really, that he sticks to Palpatine is because he has nothing else, and because he thinks he is unworthy of forgiveness and can never go back.
But then, enter Luke. Now he has someone to live for. And more importantly, Luke believes that he can be redeemed and thus the last hold over him that Palpatine has (you are damned so cannot change it) is gone.
I hope Palpatine agonized for a bit as he was falling down that reactor shaft that he was killed by his own apprentice, but not for a usual Sith reason, but because Anakin returned to good and wanted to protect his son. I also wonder if the bit with Palpatine torturing Luke brought back to Vader the moment in the Mace-Palpatine duel that also involved energy strikes and his very different reaction.
I was thinking of the fact that Palpatine doesn't realize there isn't much tying Anakin to the Sith, and that is his downfall. Anakin turns and grovels (I cannot bear to watch that scene) because he thinks after he's killed Mace that he is irredeemably damned anyway now (I can't see old-school Jedi being much on redemption and forgiveness), and he might as well try to do the best he can and save Padme. But with Padme dead, that carrot that Palpatine had is gone (I think he'd dispose of her eventually anyway, if she survived, because he didn't want Anakin to have a "good angel"). And Anakin never is much into power or torture for the enjoyment of it. Thus, the only reason, really, that he sticks to Palpatine is because he has nothing else, and because he thinks he is unworthy of forgiveness and can never go back.
But then, enter Luke. Now he has someone to live for. And more importantly, Luke believes that he can be redeemed and thus the last hold over him that Palpatine has (you are damned so cannot change it) is gone.
I hope Palpatine agonized for a bit as he was falling down that reactor shaft that he was killed by his own apprentice, but not for a usual Sith reason, but because Anakin returned to good and wanted to protect his son. I also wonder if the bit with Palpatine torturing Luke brought back to Vader the moment in the Mace-Palpatine duel that also involved energy strikes and his very different reaction.
