gffa: I REALLY LIKED THIS ENDING?  IT WAS KIND OF FASCINATING ABOUT WHAT IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN IMP

gffa:I REALLY LIKED THIS ENDING?  IT WAS KIND OF FASCINATING ABOUT WHAT IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN IMPLYING.Vader’s words are the perfect encapsulation of what’s going on here, it’s not, “I’ll see you again.” or “You deserved to live.” or “I didn’t listen to you.” or even “I’m sorry I killed you.” as Vader thinks that he killed her at this point in time.Instead it’s, “Padme, you will be mine again.”Whatever might have once been true about Anakin’s love for her, this is absolutely and utterly about wanting to possess her, to have her as a thing, uncaring of what she wants or his own responsibility in what happened or what it even means.  He’s dead serious when he’s ready to sacrifice this entire world to drag whatever of her back that he can, that he’d do it on world after world after world, that he doesn’t even stop to think about how she might feel about trillions being sacrificed to bring her back.This isn’t a love story any more, this is obsession and possession here.  This is Vader trying to wrap up his need to have her, at any cost, in the wrapping of love.And that’s why the Black Bishop’s words are so interesting, as someone who is little but a shadow himself, he’s the one Lady Corvax tried to revive when she tore Mustafar apart and made it the hellscape it is now.  Because it wouldn’t be Padme, it’d just be a shadow of her.The worst part is that I’m not sure Vader would care–he doesn’t want a fully realized person who would be horrified at his actions, he doesn’t want the person who said, “You’re going down a path I can’t follow.”, he wants the person who begged him to love her, no matter what he’d done.  He wants only that sliver of her, the parts that were all about him.In this, it ties into Dark Lord of the Sith’s final arc, where Anakin tears open the Force to try to bring her back, he begs her to come with him, but it’s only a shadow, it’s not really her, it’s only the parts of her that were about him.  This is pretty much the same, that there’s nothing of what Padme wants here, nothing of who she was herself.“She was almost within reach!  Now she is lost to me again!” and Vader’s rage show us that this was absolutely not a good thing.  He’s taunting the main player with how evil an act this is, how he’s draining the planet and the player of their life forces, how he screams in rage and turns on the nearest person because how dare you not die in my quest to drag a shadow of her back!Even the Black Bishop points out that Vader could only resurrect a shadow, the point is that Padme Amidala is gone, trying to bring her back isn’t about love anymore, it’s about Anakin Skywalker’s inability to let her go.  This isn’t a good thing, even if it went perfectly, she would only be a shadow, it wouldn’t be the real her.  This is obsession and a shadow himself would understand that better than anyone.This entire scene was one of the high points of the Vader Immortal storyline, which was admittedly fairly thin, but the sheer drama of it, Vader’s blaming everyone else, his screams when he’s denied what he wants, his complete inability to recognize the reality of the situation because he doesn’t want to, his own selfish desires that he thinks is love, all of it is the worst parts of Anakin Skywalker.  It’s so easy to see Anakin Skywalker’s face under that mask in these scenes, because this may not be the sum total of him (there is good in him, too), but it sure as hell is at the heart of him. -- source link

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