gffa:The entire run of this comic up to this point has been exactly like this–Vader trying to
gffa:The entire run of this comic up to this point has been exactly like this–Vader trying to find Padme’s body while the people of Naboo still loyal to Padme try to stop him, where Anakin is coming face to face with a past in both the current time and in his own red-tinged memories, his brutal coldness at refusing to engage with them as Anakin Skywalker, his brutal murder of anyone who steps in his way, that the most he offers Sabe is a willingness to let her go if she leaves now, to leave her in the dirt next to Padme’s tomb.The way the comic uses Vader’s memories, the sweet moments from The Phantom Menace and occasionally Attack of the Clones, the way the red seems to swing back and forth between painfully haunting to something almost sweetly warm and then back to ruthlessly cutting into Vader, to catch up to the current vision–that everything up to this point in red has been a memory, something to parallel the current timeline but never quite touching it, always still separate, but then it’s crashing right into the current time.Vader’s perspective is no longer just softer moments from the movies, it’s no longer sweet memories of Padme (contrasted against the cruel things he’s doing to those very people in the current time, but sweet memories all the same), but the red-tinted perspective of what he’s done now. The Amidalans that he’s cut down now are shown in the same filter that has shown all those memories. The people and creatures and things of Naboo that he has cut down in his path towards Padme’s grave, that everything that was a reminder of her and this planet she came from, that has stood in his way, has been cut down.And you can’t deny that Anakin and Vader are the same person, that what drives Vader is what drove Anakin. That his memories aren’t of a separate person, no matter how hard Vader is trying to kill off that part of himself that is in horrific pain.The way he looks over them, their pained groans because they feel they’ve failed Padme, they’re sorry because they couldn’t do more for her name, contrasted against everything he’s done for Padme that isn’t really about what she wanted at all, then crashing the two perspectives, Anakin’s memories and Vader’s current point of view, it’s just an absolute explosion of tension leading up to what is always one of the most central themes of connection between the OT and the PT: Darth Vader is Anakin Skywalker.None of this feels accidental, right up to Vader’s final memory before it turns into his current perspective:“I made this for you, so you’d remember me.”Fucking woof. What a note to deliver it home with.Little Anakin Skywalker wanted to be remembered.Big Anakin Skywalker is murdering everything that ever could possibly remember him.This is the story of Darth Vader between ROTS and ANH, it was the same with the 2017 comic, where every single story in that comic was about Vader trying to murder the people who remembered him, the people who represented paths he could have chosen instead of this one, trying to murder the core of himself when he couldn’t bring Padme back. It was about him violently rejecting the knowledge that Obi-Wan would have accepted him back, if he’d gone to him.This is the story of Vader and Ahsoka’s confrontation in Rebels, where he can’t tolerate her living because she remembers him as he used to be. Even when she was willing to accept him again, said she wouldn’t leave him, not this time, he was still going to kill her because he just could not tolerate it.He could not tolerate being remembered as he was versus what he had done and who he was now.But he can’t ever really kill that part of himself. He can’t separate the two out, no matter how much he tries or the narrative sets up the two as different. Those perspectives eventually will crash into each other and merge into one, because Darth Vader is Anakin Skywalker.Even if he murders everyone who ever remembered him, he will still always remember Anakin Skywalker. -- source link
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