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by: janlomona

date posted: Oct 06, 2005 10:44 AM | updated: Oct 06, 2005 11:07 AM

In His Final Moments...

...the final moments of Return of the Jedi and the Star Wars trilogies...
The Emperor is blasting Luke Skywalker into oblivion with his sith lightening as Darth Vader, Anakin Skywalker watches helplessly from behind his ebony mask.
Through his mind he must be running so many thoughts. Memories, regrets, decisions made that he wished he could change but knows he can't. He was raised as the Chosen One, the one who would bring balance to the Force. But all he succeded in doing was destroying the Jedi and becoming Palpatine's servant.
He makes a decision. He thinks of what his son has said and lifts Palpatine, taking terrible damage himself and throws him down the reactor shaft.
Finally, after so many years of horror, the prophecy of the Chosen One has come true.
During those years of his training Anakin was never a true part of the light side. He always had the shadows of anger, fear and aggression hanging over his head.
So was this the first (and only) time Anakin Skywalker was a true, unblemished Jedi Knight - and hence why he was able to become a Force spirit and rejoin his fellow Jedi in the afterlife?

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	Osilio Remus
date Posted: Oct 06, 2005 10:59 AM Yeah perhaps, I don't see him as a Jedi.. more like a mix of a jedi and sith.

	janlomona Smugglers Rants
date Posted: Oct 06, 2005 11:06 AM Me too. Just throwing this out as a topic for discussion. It sees to fit the bits we know (but then, it is from a certain point of view)

	DarthVicomte Vicomte's Blog Extravaganza (Now Defunct)
date Posted: Oct 06, 2005 12:33 PM If he was never a true Jedi, then he was never a true Sith, either.

	jedimaster13109 Meditations of a Star Wars Fan
date Posted: Oct 06, 2005 2:10 PM No Sith has ever returned from the Dark Side and been redeemed. Perhaps that was Anakin's thing he was never really a sith.

	Darth Ragnos3
date Posted: Oct 06, 2005 2:26 PM Idis agree because ben and yoda had to become one with the force.

	fletchjedi1
date Posted: Oct 06, 2005 2:30 PM I don't think that he was truly a Sith, either. If he was there is no way that Luke could've helped him regain what he had lost by choosing the path that the Emperor gave him.

Darius, Lord Of The Sith
Thoughts From Darius

date Posted: Oct 06, 2005 11:02 PM

IMO, Anakin is just a representation of the Jedi Order. Many Jedi had become arrogant and angry (just look at Mace). That's why they fell. Palpatine took advantage of problems that were already there in the Jedi by manipulating the situation. Anakin is no less of a Jedi than any of the other Jedi who fought in the war and who had been affected greatly by the violence they partook in. He was a product of his environment. So, if he was not really a Jedi, then the others were probably not either. Some would agree with that because it was evident that the Jedi Order had to be remade in order to survive.

	shadowball2021
date Posted: Oct 07, 2005 4:40 PM I agree with Darius, Lord Of The Sith. Many jedi seemed to be like Mace but Anakin was the only one that finally fall to the darkside. The violence only showed how the jedi were slowly falling apart from the inside; arrogent and angry. I also never saw Ani as a full jedi or sith, he was more in the middle of the two.

shatterpoint282
''This Party's Over ''

date Posted: Oct 07, 2005 7:35 PM

Mace was NOT arrogant , not really .Mace was trying to do what was right, protecting the republic , not the one who runs it.The republic was civilization , and only within civilization can peace exist. Anakin was never a pure jedi till the end and that barely counts cuz he died a few minutes later , but he did become redeemed so he wasn't a full sith but was never a true jedi.

Darth Gehena

date Posted: Oct 08, 2005 1:45 AM

Deep down, the Jedi and the Sith were people, whether they be enlightened like the Jedi or driven by rage (maniacal, perhaps) like the Sith. And as people, both sides were less than perfect. Based on that rational, one might wonder "What is a true Jedi?" or "What is a true Sith?" for that matter. As such, if the people on both sides are in fact less-than-perfect, Anakin Skywalker is the poster child of both sides. As a Jedi hero, his imperfections included his overwhelming desire to protect his wife. As a Sith killing machine, his imperfections included his ultimately overwhelming desire to protect his son.

	Darth Gehena
date Posted: Oct 08, 2005 1:47 AM Regarding Anakin becoming a Force ghost, the secret of the Shaman of the Whills (eternal consciousness in the Force) was attainable only through compassion. It was Vader's/Anakin's compassion for Luke that earned him the secret knowledge of the Whills. That and Obi-wan and Yoda were waiting on the other side to guide him to that path.

	anakinsloverisme
date Posted: Oct 10, 2005 1:25 PM IMHO, Anakin was fully both a Jedi and a Sith. No matter how good an individual may be, s/he can always make poor decisions, commit horrible deeds, etc. And conversely, and no matter how horrible a person is, or what s/he have done, there is always hope.... Perhaps if someone had cared enough to save Sidious or Dooku....we'll never know.

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