My letter to Princess Leia was pretty popular the day I wrote it. Which got me thinking. Maybe it's time to write the one I was originally going to write in the first place. You guessed it.....Darth Vader. . Why didn't I write it before, you ask??? I've been thinking about it, but the wording was all wrong at the time. But it still was kicking around in my noggin, so I decided now would be a good time. After all, I have been on the site for almost a year now. A year??? Has it been that long???? Yup. Hard to believe, itsn't it. Of course my official membership to Hyperspace didn't begin until August. About a month before that is when I began leaving comments on some of your blogs. When I finally got the money, then I took my first plunge. The rest is history. So, with that in mind, here is my letter to our favorite Sith Lord.
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Dear Darth Vader,
You and I have never met. You are from the fictitious Galaxy Far Far Away (or GFFA as we term it). I come from the real world.
I am writing to you because watching the events that brought you to the Dark Side is not an easy thing for me. I find it quite disturbing, actually. As an emotional person myself, your battle with the Dark Side really gets to me. Watching you turn from being a Jedi Knight to a Sith Lord is not easy for me, even though I have watched the saga many times. Your choices are quite disturbing, though to a point one can understand why you made the choices you did. Could you have made different choices, and avoided the path to the Dark Side altogether??? Maybe. Maybe not.
You did not have to make the choices you did. You chose to kill all the Tusken Raiders in revenge for your mother's death. You didn't have to choose to do so. Revenge was a natural reaction, though. That's being human. I felt sorrow for you when you used your blade against them. Would I have done the same if it happened to me??? Probably. Could your decision have been different??? I honestly can't say. Your choice to kill Count Dooku didn't have to be made, either. He could have lived to stand trial, just as you originally wanted. I probably would not have chose to kill him. That to me was uncalled for. But again, the Dark Side took over. That scares me. I don't think I could do that to somebody.Knowing Palpatine was Darth Sidious, you could have chosen to not listen to him and follow the Jedi way. You chose to become Darth Vader. You chose to be the scourge of the Jedi, to hunt them to extinction. That choice didn't have to be made either. That's even scarier. It really bothered me. Then there is the events on Mustafar. I felt like crying. I think I did the first few times I watched those scenes unfurl onscreen. That was what really sent you to the Dark Side. I still get emotional over it to this day. Could you have listened to your wife and your friend??? Could they have swayed you back before it was too late???? Maybe. Maybe not. It still hurts me to watch it, even though I've seen it dozens of times. Probably because I try and find ways you could have avoided going to the Dark Side. But I never really do.
Of course, if you had made other choices--choices which would have not taken you to the Dark Side-- Darth Vader would not have existed in the first place, and the saga would not have been a story of redemption. It would have been a different story altogether. Maybe that's why you appeal to me, and why I chose to put your name in my screen name.
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I hope you enjoyed my letter. Just hope he doesn't decide to Force choke me in the process