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| Topic | Rate the Character Day 3: Darth Vader |
| Panthera 09/13/17 10:30:28 PM #25: | Lopen posted... I don't think you were reading the subtext very well if that's your interpretation of RotJ. Oh no someone insulted something popular let's call him stupid :) Subtext is way less important than overt facts - even before getting into the prequels (where he personally slaughters a bunch of children), he's a willing accessory to mass murder who kills people for mildly antagonizing him and his clearest view on his position as the more or less second in command of an evil empire is that he wants to move up to number one. His view of his children is basically to like the fact that they might help him. His "sacrifice" is self-beneficial. A guy who is as consistently evil as Vader is does not qualify as redeemed simply because he helps kill a guy that wanted him dead anyway. The whole deal with fiction treating horrible people as if they aren't horrible because they happen to share the same family as the hero pisses me off. No amount of subtext can ever magically make Darth Vader not an irredeemable bastard --- We clasped our hands, our hands in praise of a conquerors right to tyranny ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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