May 16, 20241 yr 14 hours ago, Cult Icon said: @Jade Bahr Have you seen the Witcher show? I watched the first season, was satisfied and decided not to watch any more messed up seasons. It's one of the few times where I think Henry Cavill did a good job. Usually this man has the charm and ability to convey some kind of charisma similar to that of a dead tree. But maybe it worked so well because Gerald was grumpy and grunting more than anything lol
May 16, 20241 yr 14 hours ago, Cult Icon said: IIRC (I am not a Star wars reader either) Anakin's main character flaws was that he was extraordinarily arrogant and self-entitled, and also placed an infinite value on Padme, which meant that he was immensely possessive. He would rather kill 1000 innocent strangers than to lose her. He also believe that he deserved high position despite being very young and was massively angered when he was denied such an honor due to the Jedi recognizing that he was immature. The Sith Lord Palapatine knew Anakin well and manipulated his weaknesses to push him into the dark side. If Anakin was a traditional hero and did not have such serious personal issues he would have been immune to such external manipulation. A lot of this has to do with how Anakin was raised and repeatedly told by his teachers that he was the 'chosen one' , 'ultra-special', etc. This plus his very real gifts just reinforced it. So naturally he would grow up to have a distorted view of reality. I mean he's a 19 years old teenager filled with hormones and rage. I always wondered what the Jedis expected in the first place when it was so very clear from the start Anakin wasn't sublime above such feelings like a "usual" Jedi student? Also Yoda said from the very beginning he was already too old when Qui-Gon discovered him. Obi Wan whatever more felt responsible for Anakin because of his masters sudden dead and his loyalty to him. So many things went wrong from the very beginning for Anakin. But yeah his arrogance and superior behaviour was a huge character weakness no one could handle. Not Obi Wan, not Padme, not Yoda not anyone. So he was a pretty easy target for Palpatine and his false promises and manipulation especially when he had such thoughts in his head pretty early (after his mothers dead). He's guided by his emotions and never by his head what makes him pretty much everything but not so much a Jedi. I mean in the end he kinda was "the chosen one" to destroy everything lol One of the things we find in ‘Revenge of the Sith’ is that the dark side is not tempting Anakin to anything... that Anakin is looking at the dark side and saying, ‘That’s what I want.’ Matthew Stover (author), Revenge of the Sith novelization.
May 16, 20241 yr 6 hours ago, Jade Bahr said: I watched the first season, was satisfied and decided not to watch any more messed up seasons. It's one of the few times where I think Henry Cavill did a good job. Usually this man has the charm and ability to convey some kind of charisma similar to that of a dead tree. But maybe it worked so well because Gerald was grumpy and grunting more than anything lol He left his role as the Witcher because the showrunners weren't following the books and Geralt wasn't the 'amateur philosopher' he envisioned him to be. The actual character in the books/games has a lot of insight to human/social/political nature, sarcasm and dry humor, and talks a lot. He also 'gets the ladies'- and not just yennefer. In the games they chose to get David Cockle talk like Batman/Clint Eastwood and it worked- in the books I doubt that Sapkowski necessarily had that in mind. : This is the redesigned Geralt from the W3 which is the most familar version worldwide. Henry Cavil was a big fan of the game but didn't read the books before he sought out the role. So it is evident to me that he was trying to talk like David Cockle and play fight as such and expected the character to be like the one from the game. imho Henry Cavill was still miscast. Besides the personality mismatch (and the showrunners not following the books/games anyway)- Geralt isn't a bodybuilder either..!
May 16, 20241 yr @Jade Bahr The much maligned 'Obi Wan' show had an addition to the Obi-Wan & Anakin relationship- basically Obi Wan reveals that he is very sorry for raising Anakin wrong (implying that he did not educate him properly in morality and philosophy) and he blames himself for everything. It's pretty good scene imho. ending spoilers: Spoiler
May 17, 20241 yr I finally have to watch the OBI WAN show. It's on my watchlist since doom @Cult Icon Of course Obi Wan is blaming himself for everything. He's a true Jedi. Poor soul. He's probably even more tragic than Anakin. Love them both.
May 19, 20241 yr It's interesting how youtube secretively censors 'controversial' topics by intentionally making it hard to rank in the algorithm and making it very difficult for certain types of channels to grow over 1 million. I looked at some of the old channels from big youtube self-help gurus with over 1 million subs and their channels are massively tanking. Huge channels that used to get 100k, 300k views a video are now getting just 10k and so on. It looks like youtube has punished a lot of them. Islam is one of the world's most populous religions with adherents in the billions but the biggest muslim 'influencers' are all well under 1 million subs lol.
May 20, 20241 yr On 5/16/2024 at 5:19 AM, Jade Bahr said: I mean he's a 19 years old teenager filled with hormones and rage. I always wondered what the Jedis expected in the first place when it was so very clear from the start Anakin wasn't sublime above such feelings like a "usual" Jedi student? Also Yoda said from the very beginning he was already too old when Qui-Gon discovered him. Obi Wan whatever more felt responsible for Anakin because of his masters sudden dead and his loyalty to him. So many things went wrong from the very beginning for Anakin. But yeah his arrogance and superior behaviour was a huge character weakness no one could handle. Not Obi Wan, not Padme, not Yoda not anyone. So he was a pretty easy target for Palpatine and his false promises and manipulation especially when he had such thoughts in his head pretty early (after his mothers dead). He's guided by his emotions and never by his head what makes him pretty much everything but not so much a Jedi. I mean in the end he kinda was "the chosen one" to destroy everything lol One of the things we find in ‘Revenge of the Sith’ is that the dark side is not tempting Anakin to anything... that Anakin is looking at the dark side and saying, ‘That’s what I want.’ Matthew Stover (author), Revenge of the Sith novelization. I agree with this- don't have much to add except that it was a bit of trick by Lucas to classify Anakin as the 'chosen' one to destroy the Sith. If I'm not mistaken when Vader destroys his master at the end of Return of the Jedi that may have been the last Sith? Even thought people gave The Prequels criticism at the time, they had so many meme-worthy moments that they are still being used now lol.
May 20, 20241 yr 7 hours ago, Cult Icon said: it was a bit of trick by Lucas to classify Anakin as the 'chosen' one to destroy the Sith. I wonder if Lucas already had Vaders whole background story in mind since he kinda shooted those movies/told the story backwards. 7 hours ago, Cult Icon said: If I'm not mistaken when Vader destroys his master at the end of Return of the Jedi that may have been the last Sith? I watched episode 4-6 probably once in my life. I barely remember anything of it.
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