"I think we understood what Anakin was going through, and why he was making some choices that perhaps weren’t the best"

- Hayden Christensen

Many people miss this, especially the whole toxic positivity fellows (interesting folk...) who fail to see that Anakin's fall was understandable. Regardless of how evil his choices were, we can see where he went wrong, and WHY he went wrong. The failure of the council and the Jedi to guide the already sensitive Anakin, led to his (and their) downfall.

The fall of Anakin is artistic in the sense that it shows what he is doing is WRONG and EVIL but more so it makes us see him as flawed and human. That is the tragedy of Darth Vader. That is what humanizes Anakin as a character. That even through all these bad choices and atrocities, it's still never too late to make a change and turn it all around to be a better person.

But that's not what toxic positivity will allow you to voice. They simply want to say...

ANAKIN = EVIL

IF YOU LIKE ANAKIN YOU = EVIL

There's so much to cinema that I think it requires a level of thinking that I think a child can even grasp to understand the premiss and psychology of Skywalker, and that it was just as much the council's fault that he turned, as it was Anakin's.

Today's episode elaborates on this and shows Hayden's full quotes

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices