*chills*

I'm a light side kind of girl but I have to say there are a lot of lines by the Sith that just chilled me to the bone--and I loved it.

My favourite has got to be when the Emperor says "So be it...Jedi" in ROTJ...it was awesome!! Just the way his voice did that rippling thing it does. I love the little things in these movies. Another reason I think it was so cool was because the Emperor himself accepted Luke as a Jedi. Yoda said he would be when he faced Vader and he did and Luke says he's a Jedi and the Emporer at last accepts what Luke was meant to be and it is on! You know?

Another line I like listening to is said by Vader in TESB when he's in his chamber and says to Veers..."Prepare your troops for a surface attack" ...has anyone noticed the way James Earl Jones says "attack"? Listen to it next time, I think it's great.

Don't know why this all urged me to write a blog but there you go!

I've been reading a lot of blogs and things on Vader and I remember never really liking him at all until his death scene. And even then I wasn't real absolutely crazy about him.

Since the prequels though I have definitely come to understand Vader. As much as people complained about the prequels I always said you had to look past it and concentrate on the story. I myself never had beef with the prequels as I thought they were fairly well done!

Anyway, Star Wars is literally all about Anakin/Vader as George Lucas has said: it starts with Anakin Skywalker and it ends Anakin Skywalker.

With the prequels we finally get to see the real emotional story of Vader as a complete tragic hero. How he was horribly tricked by the real villain of Star Wars. That many mistakes were made by others that evidently led to his downfall!

In EP1 he was such a nice boy, like Qui-Gon said he gave without any thought of reward. It was hard to believe he could grow up to be the bad guy...!

There is one piece of art that I think is really amazing. Definitely one of the best pieces of Star Wars: The Great Remorse of Darth Vader.

The one thing that always bothered me was that I wish he had had the capacity to turn back to the light side when he found out Padme was dead. I know he was overrun with darkness by then but he was really set on learning the dark side for Padme. Since there was no need for him to learn the new powers he should have snapped back, realized what he had done and taken the Emperor down!!! Yeah!!

But no... it would be decades before that happened!