Omg I just wanted to take a moment to agree with you about the «human disaster» anakin thing. It annoys me so much. Almost as much as it annoys me when people write him off as a stupid drama queen. And don’t get me started on «can’t believe padme married anakin when obi-wan was right there» 🙄🙄🙄

dgcatanisiri:

padawanlost:

flaminganakin-deactivated201812:

Considering what Anakin went through throughout his 23 years (childhood in slavery, inducted into an order of monks who ostracize, belittle and outright disregard his trauma and culture, mother died in his arms after he watched her be tortured via psychic visions for weeks and weeks, then after his mother’s death his mentor–who refused to let him go free his mother who was still in slavery–denies any fault in said mother’s death and blames Anakin for not being more specific, then a war breaks out and he’s put through even more trauma in addition to being given a student (when he explicitly stated he didn’t want one) as apart of a secret test of character given to him by the aforementioned teachers who have always belittled and dismissed him for his background, THEN these same teachers put the student he’s grown to love and care for up as a sacrificial lamb in order to save their own public image, and THEN after all of this he starts having more psychic visions of his beloved wife dying)

it’s kind of amazing that it took THAT long for Anakin to fully snap and turn away from his teachers. If I were him, I would’ve been out the second those fuckos let my mom die. 

And because I know it’s coming, I KNOW this doesn’t excuse what Anakin did. I know, okay? That’s not what I’m saying here. My point is that the fact that he could survive all of this horrible shit happening to him and still come out on the other side a relatively functional human who still wanted to do the right thing, up until the 3rd act of RotS says a lot about how strong of a person Anakin was. 

#so you can put that cool motive still murder gif away#I KNOW people#I. KNow#that’s not the point i’m trying to make here#anakin skywalker#my poor son#still can’t believe obi-wan had the nerve to be all#‘you never told me she DIED’#BITCHHHHHHH#what did you think had him so distressed???#you mean to tell me you didn’t think the life and health of an enslaved woman#living in poverty#on a backwater crime infested planet#was of no concern???#bye obi-wan that’s a lame ass excuse lmao#just apologize like a normal fucking person (@flaminganakin)

And like… The third act of RotS is the CULMINATION of what has happened to him, meaning that had something – ANYTHING – about his situation changed at any point leading up to it, the subsequent events could have been avoided. If he’d been raised in an environment that wasn’t an active trigger that was emotionally abusing him, if someone had said ‘hey, the grown ass Chancellor being this interested in a child Padawan is a little skeevy, how about we not?’, if any Jedi – who are all fully aware of the fact that the Force often sends prophetic dreams, and, regardless, KNOW about the fact that Shmi is a slave and that… y’know, slavery is wrong – had gone ‘maybe we should go do something about this innocent woman being left in slavery’… 

Anakin’s arc is a tragedy because it could have – SHOULD HAVE – been prevented, if anyone around him in the ten years between TPM and AotC had shown him compassion, which is supposedly a Jedi virtue. Anakin is bent through the prequels until he finally breaks. Meanwhile, the Jedi are so inflexible they create the problems they claim they’re meant to solve.