Re: I expect this will be a long reply

on 2012-01-11 12:17 am (UTC)
sathari: Juxtaposition of Anakin and Vader (Anakin-Vader)
Posted by [personal profile] sathari
Hmm... I think the Fridge-Logic-y-ness of canon!Anakin's woobieness and the free-take-on-the-text-ness of it come from the same place, namely that George Lucas introduced some massive human rights violations and psychological trauma issues for pre-Vader Anakin without really wrangling what came with them. So it wouldn't be a free reading of text if the import of the bare bones we're given was addressed as opposed to more or less bare-bulbed (as opposed to lampshaded).

And I just love Revenge-verse Anakin, who actually seems to have his shit more together than canon!Anakin does, possibly because he is being written by someone who pays attention to the importance of the words coming out of characters' mouths and how they fit into the story being told. Revenge!Anakin (and Vader thereafter) actually come/s across as having more agency and being more badass (in the way that I think Lucas thinks he made them in canon) in many ways, though still tragic and sympathetic as regards the really horrible contexts in which he/they exercise/s that agency. Lucas never really shows us cunning-warrior!Anakin, and you do. Nuff said as regards any possibility of "excessive" woobieness. (That said, my woobiemeter is permanently skewed, as I like my Brilliant Badass Woobies, please and thank you.)
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