posting meme: Anakin Skywalker

[ratcreature]

killabeez prompted: Talk to me about Anakin Skywalker and his relationship with another character of your choice.

I'm not that into Anakin (or Darth Vader later), though I don't dislike him either. My favorite SW character is Obi-Wan (though I still haven't watched the recent series, alas), so I quite enjoy some stories of the two as Jedi knights (though I haven't watched that animated Clone Wars series either, I just can't deal with that animation style). However I don't particularly ship Anakin/Obi-Wan, because Anakin really seems too obsessive about Padme.

I've read a few stories with more of a thruple setup, but I think overall I appreciate Anakin more as a nexus, on which the epic hinges than as a character to glom onto. I have a huge preference for likable and sympathetic hero characters, and while every villain is the hero of their own story, and Anakin can be likable, it's always tricky to pull that kind of fictional empathy off with a character who is also a mass murderer and slaughtered Jedi children.

I have enjoyed some fanfic explorations of Anakin's background and upbringing that build a more solid foundation to then also explain him turning on the Jedi and such, like Fialleril's Tatooine stories, and am also quite fond of shorter pieces about him that just ignore the big picture, whether humor pieces about the absurdity of imperial bureaucracy, or stories about Anakin and droids or Clone War era Anakin/Obi-Wan PWPs, but he's not my favorite, and I don't have any particular theories about him.

(If you want to prompt me there are still many open days.)

Comments

[killabeez]

Ahhh, thank you! I got into Star Wars via the Clone Wars, of all things. I hear you about the animation style, but I got used to it pretty quickly. The family unit of Obi-Wan + Anakin + Ahsoka was what hooked me on Star Wars after a lifetime of just not being fannish about it. (Obi-Wan is my favorite, too, but I love hearing people's thoughts about Anakin, since you're right, he's the nexus.)

[ratcreature]

Every now and then when I see squeeing about the Clone Wars I think that maybe I should give it a real try, but then I remember that I have trouble sticking with any media right now anyway (it really sucks to have the fictional escape cut off) and adding animation style dislike in the mix can't help.

I have an irrational aversion to 3D animation in general (probably because that mostly pushed out the classic 2D animation I loved a lot), so much so that I'm only slowly thawing on Pixar and the like and more often than not still don't watch those movies either... it's a problem.

[killabeez]

Completely understand. I'm less picky about TV, since I often am reading the captions or listening while doing something else, but I'm very picky about animation in movies, and I have mixed reactions to all things Pixar. I was the same way about comics. It would drive me crazy when they'd switch artists, and the art was often a barrier to me getting into them.

[sealie]

The core of anything that I see with Anakin Skywalker, trying to understand his motivations etc etc, is that the end of the day he chose the dark side, and regardless of how easily led/misinformed he was, in doing that he killed children. I look at any series with Anakin/Darth Vader in and think child murderer, there’s no coming back from that.