Why Anakin Skywalker should’ve been removed from the Jedi Order for sexual harassment
The Jedi Council’s inability to remove a toxic, misogynistic predator from its ranks ultimately brings about its downfall — when Anakin Skywalker joins the dark side and becomes Darth Vader. Maybe if the Jedi were more concerned with gender equality, and less concerned with balancing the force, then they would still be around today.
He knows it was a movie, right? A work of fiction set a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, right?
IDIOT!!!!!
The Jedi fell was because George Lucas is not nearly smart or talented enough to create the Shakespearean tragedy he wanted, and so they fell because of stupidity and the mother of all convoluted schemes. Also, because the script said so.
The only thanks George Lucas should be given with regards to Star Wars is having the dedication and courage to make the first one. The prequels proved that much of what is good about Star Wars came from those reading the lines, working behind the scenes, and creating new works set in the universe.
I never had a thematic-problem with Anakin Skywalker becoming Darth Vader. I had a huge problem swallowing the bilge-crap surrounding “how” he fell from grace. In-fact his whole life-arc (courtesy of George Lucas) up to his striding aboard the Diplomatic Shuttle at the beginning of The New Hope — or in Rouge-One — is intolerable utter-swill. The best villains are not “explained”; they just are, springing-forth full-formed like Athena.
After all the insipid, navel-gazing whining and ineffectual to’ing-and-fro’ing by the Republican “leadership and the Jedi Council; I’d have sent the whole lot of them to-the-wall myself, just on “general principles”.
This is Serious Opinion Journalism, don’t you know.
Next week, the author will attempt to explain how Lord Voldemort became evil because his mother, who was abused by her crazy father and brother, abandoned him resulting in his hatred of womyn.
Perhaps he’ll write about Popeye sometime – I always wondered why he strung Olive Oyl along for so long.
Wow, this guy’s trying a little too hard to get laid.