One of the scenes that bothers me the most is where Anakin states that from his perspective, the Jedi are evil, and then gives zero reasons. But it would be trivial to explain himself.
The Jedi are a religious organization that wields great authoritarian political power, often unilaterally, including later as we observed, political assassinations. They’re obsessed with finding people who are chosen at birth and have a policy of rejecting anyone who is too old to be fully indoctrinated.
They’re basically fascists. If you ever eliminated the sith, the next thing you’d want to eliminate are the Jedi.
How much more interesting would it be if they actually presented the Jedi, including their inherent flaws?
That’s arguably true, albeit a rather uncharitable interpretation of canon, but I don’t think Anakin is capable of articulating it at that point.
I mean, that’s a calm and logical argument about the flaws in the Jedi Order.
The trouble is, Anakin has gone full Sith at that point and is running off emotion - “the Jedi are evil because they treated me like shit, they killed my mother, they want to kill my wife and child, and they’re trying to overthrow and execute the one person who ever treated me like a human being”.
As bad as the dialogue in that scene is, it would be worse if Anakin stopped to debate philosophy in the middle of his rage-fueled murder attempt.
One of the scenes that bothers me the most is where Anakin states that from his perspective, the Jedi are evil, and then gives zero reasons. But it would be trivial to explain himself.
The Jedi are a religious organization that wields great authoritarian political power, often unilaterally, including later as we observed, political assassinations. They’re obsessed with finding people who are chosen at birth and have a policy of rejecting anyone who is too old to be fully indoctrinated.
They’re basically fascists. If you ever eliminated the sith, the next thing you’d want to eliminate are the Jedi.
How much more interesting would it be if they actually presented the Jedi, including their inherent flaws?
That’s arguably true, albeit a rather uncharitable interpretation of canon, but I don’t think Anakin is capable of articulating it at that point.
I mean, that’s a calm and logical argument about the flaws in the Jedi Order.
The trouble is, Anakin has gone full Sith at that point and is running off emotion - “the Jedi are evil because they treated me like shit, they killed my mother, they want to kill my wife and child, and they’re trying to overthrow and execute the one person who ever treated me like a human being”.
As bad as the dialogue in that scene is, it would be worse if Anakin stopped to debate philosophy in the middle of his rage-fueled murder attempt.