#juliaaaaaaa

and im just STEAMING about the way they treated Anakin's character in TCW. they toned it down a lot in season 7 (except for the part where he just flat out kills admiral trench) but ugh. im just mad.

I used to like the way they beefed up Anakin's character on TCW but now im just realizing they did it because it was Dave Filoni's original vision of Anakin instead of the emotionally vulnerable soft king that was portrayed in the movies & im mad.

Like why did they have to make him so?? jerkish?? Like... Except for that one scene where Anakin murks the sand people, he never really lashes out at ppl like he does in TCW. He yells at Zam (the bounty hunter in AOTC) but like that's the extent?? He doesn't even really lash out in ROTS... But in TCW he was just about Force choking someone every 5 seconds.

Also they made him to be such a dumbass????? Like more than he already was? I mean I get that it's a kid's TV show (or at least it was meant to start out that way) and that they needed some comedy relief but damn they treated Anakin so poorly... Like yeah he's celebrated as a dope decorated war general in the TV show but there are so many instances where he's portrayed as a frat Chad & it angers me.

Like that episode w/ the Bad Batch, "On the Wings of Keeradacks" or however you spell it, he's trying to ride the Keeradack & he's saying, "How do you control this thing?!" When he really would've had no problem doing that because he's done that before in AOTC with that reek...

okay end rant sorry I needed to tell someone about this & your page is always welcoming discourse so 😔✋🏻

Y’know I keep forgetting some of y’all can write essay asks now until I get one 🤩💕🥺 but omg yes I’m always open to rants of any kind

Okay I think there’s two parts to this:

I agree that making Anakin seem stupid sometimes is destructive to his character. I think, like you said, it was mainly done for comic relief since it’s a kids show. And my god does that show need all the comic relief you can get. Slavery, wars, corruption, child soldiers... Yeah I get why they needed to make the main character a bit more “childish” for the audience.

Anakin being jerkish on the other hand... I can’t really say that’s a flaw. This is a good point brought up in Harry Potter but also applies to this situation too: so like each Harry Potter book is a school year, yeah? But we don’t see each and every day in Harry’s time there. We don’t see him just having meals with friends, playing games, study sessions, all his Quidditch practices. We only really see what’s relavent to the plot.

Anakin in the movies is the same. We can’t see what he’s like on a more average day. We only see him in these important points of the larger story that TCW fills in. Honestly, I think TCW makes his descent to the Dark side far more believable and understandable story wise. There’s no way he slowly succumbed to that feeling without having those moments of lashing out, of more emotionally uncontrolled moments.

And honestly I appreciate how TCW shows how unhealthy his relationship with Padmé was. We see the little steps that lead them to how they end on Mustafar. It fills in those gaps.

Now... I’m also not a big fan of Anakin so I’m definitely looking at this from a different perspective 😅 I agree that Filoni infused a lot of how he felt Anakin should’ve originally been like. And season 7 as a whole well. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ part of me is wondering if so many of those changes are just due to having a considerable break from the characters and story for so long.

Aw ily Julia :’)

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