For 15 years, he avoided the public eye or, at least, Star Wars fans. And though he’d eventually play Darth Vader, Christensen was one of the most hated people coming out of the Star Wars prequels.
Rather, the point of Vader’s story, and Star Wars in general,įor the moody teenager Anakin Skywalker, George Lucas cast a 19-year-old Hayden Christensen. Saving Luke at the end of Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi didn’t erase the decades of a fascist rule that Darth Vader helped maintain. It’s how one moment can’t make you a hero. The story of Darth Vader, and the story of Star Wars, isn’t about finding redemption. Granted, Ben Solo’s moment was longer than three minutes. He saw his uncle/mentor, Luke Skywalker, as his own Obi-Wan Kenobi-someone who would love him and then betray him.Īnd just like Grandpappy Vader, Kylo is evil, murderous, and has just a moment of redemption before dying. Ben, AKA Kylo Ren, idolizes his grandfather but not for a chunk of time before and after his days as a Sith Lord. He was always that murderous villain, and the heroes just didn’t want to believe it. So, naturally, his grandson Ben Solo took from that: “Commit genocide and curb stomp an entire galaxy.” This was the only logical way that Darth Vader and his legacy could work in Star Wars. In his last act alive, Darth Vader overcame the Dark Side, killed Emperor Palpatine, and helped save the Galaxy. (Image: Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens, Walt Disney Pictures) Some people get their grandfather’s pocket watch. The Legacy of Darth Vader in the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy Thus in Star Wars, especially when it comes to Sith, death is not the end. When Luke unmasks his father as the second Death Star crumbles around them, he is no longer Darth Vader and is once again Anakin Skywalker.
At the end of Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, Darth Vader sees the evil emperor torturing his son, is moved in some way, and then tosses his boss down a pit. Once Luke accepts that Vader is his father, he recognizes that there’s some good left in than man who once was Anakin.Īs the Emperor tries to the last of the Galactice Rebellion, Luke tries to reason with his father. And of course, from his illegal marriage to Padmé, we get Luke and Leia.
Well, until we see him in Episode IV: A New Hope, where his staff scolds him until he force chokes them like he once did his pregnant wife. We next see Darth Vader in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, and he’s the most feared man in the galaxy. What’s a few hundred dead children anyway? (Image: Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, 20th Century Fox) Darth Vader and the Road to Redemption (Paved on the Backs of Innocent People)
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