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Panthera posted...

it's more of a way to criticize the scene by saying how badly what we got clashes with how his characterization actually comes across to me. As in, him acting out of self-interest would make a lot more sense to me than what I'm expected to believe.

It's a way to criticize the scene that makes you come across as a buffoon who didn't pay attention to the movies. It'd been hinted at for quite some time, over a movie's length in fact, that Vader appeared a heartless bastard but that maybe he wasn't completely lost.

Like the key here is that what Star Wars is feeding you is that being light side vs dark side is all about mentality and not so much about the sum of all good you've done vs all bad you've done. Once the guy is showing that he wishes to repent or whatever, it doesn't matter, to the force, that he'd previously blown up a planet's worth of people.

Now I could agree with you that that's a dumb message to push, but it's not Vader's fault so much. It seems your issue is more the reactions to Vader moreso than Vader himself, who is a pretty consistently written character in the original trilogy and doesn't really came across as forced at any point
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