Can we just talk for a moment about Anakin Skywalker becoming Darth Vader? He and Palpatine kill Jedi master Mace Windu, and Anakin staggers back and asks himself what he’s done.
Anakin knows this is wrong. He is so disgusted with himself. And here:
He is pledging himself to Darth Sidious.
Does this look like the face of a self assured Sith? No. This is the face of a man who is so desperate to save the one he loves that he is willing to give up everything he is.
Sure okay, Anakin has always had “a little dark side in him.” But Anakin believed in the Jedi. He wanted to help people. But according to Palpatine only a Sith could save people from death.
So here we have Anakin Skywalker, who is supposed to be a selfless Jedi, giving into his selfish desires to save Padme. This scene is so painful because we know that Anakin knows that he shouldn’t be doing this. But he loves Padme so much that he is willing to give up everything, every fiber of his being, to save her.
He is so distressed and disappointed in himself. His fall to the dark side wasn’t an easy thing to do and he knew better.
And here:
Anakin on Mustafar after he’s killed the separatists. You cannot tell me this is a man who isn’t loathing himself and what he’s become.
Flash forward to Darth Vader finding out Padme is dead, all his efforts were in vain. He cannot go back, the Jedi Order is decimated. No one would help him, surely not any remaining Jedi. He is trapped. The Emperor is the only one to give him purpose now.
Anakin convinces himself that he is irredeemable, that he has fallen so far that no one can save him or ever want him again.
That is until he meets him son, Luke Skywalker. He sees so much of Padme in him. Padme always saw the good in everything. And Luke sees right through Darth Vader, right into the heart of Anakin Skywalker.
And even though Anakin has done horrible things, Luke believes in him. Luke sees right through the masquerade that is the Sith Lord and sees the light and goodness of Anakin Skywalker. Luke sees what Anakin wanted to be but was convinced he wasn’t.
Luke Skywalker saw and deemed Darth Vader worthy of redemption when no one else would.
