At number two of my favourite Star Wars charterers in the former slave boy turned podracer champion later Jedi knight and then Dark Lord of the Sith Anakin Skywalker. When we first met Anakin he was the Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Vader way back in Star Wars Episode IV A New Hope. Back then we didn’t know his true identity only that he had supposedly betrayed and killed Anakin Skywalker and then the shocking truth revealed its self in Star Wars Episode V The Empire Strikes Back that Darth Vader was Anakin Skywalker!!!!!
Darth Vader: “Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father.”
Luke Skywalker: “He told me enough! He told me you killed him!”
Darth Vader: “No, I am your father.”
I don’t know about you but those three lines had me on the edge of my seat when I was a kid and even now I get goose bumps! At the end of Star Wars Episode VI The Return of the Jedi Anakin redeems him self and brings the prophecy of the chosen one to an end when he saves his son Luke and sacrificing him self when he killed the Emperor. Later on when George Lucas returned to the Star Wars universe with Episodes I, II and III we get to meet the young Anakin Skywalker and watch his full to the Dark Side.
Luke: No, my father didn’t fight in the Clone Wars. He was a navigator on a spice freighter.
Obi-Wan: That’s what your uncle told you. He didn’t hold with your father’s ideals; he felt he should’ve stayed here and not gotten involved.
Luke: You fought in the Clone Wars?
Obi-Wan: Yes. I was once a Jedi knight, the same as your father.
Luke: I wish I’d known him.
Obi-Wan: He was the best star pilot in the galaxy, and a cunning warrior. I understand that you’ve become quite a good pilot yourself.
Obi-Wan: And he was a good friend.
In Star Wars Episode I The Phantom Menace we meet a young Anakin, a slave for the junk dealer Watto. He helps out Qui-Gon Jinn and Queen Amidala winning the parts for their space ship as well as being freed from slavery. After the death of Qui-Gon, the Jedi Knight Obi Wan Kenobi takes him on as his apprentice against the wishes of the Jedi council. Its not an easy partner ship for the pair but always in the back ground is Darth Sidious manipulating him with lies and dark Sith magic.. Its Sidious who arranges and pushes Anakin and Padame in to a forbidden romance and its Sidous who tells Anakin to use his emotions. And in the end Darth Sidious gets his way, turning Anakin to the dark side and giving him the Sith name of Darth Vader. We learn in the book that Anakins birth by the midi-chlorians was caused by Darth Sidious’s master Darth Plagueis. And it was both Darth Plagueis and Darth Sidious who realized that if Anakin was trained by Qui-Gon then Anakin would be lost to them as a possible Sith Lord. How different would of Anakins life had been if he was trained by Qui-Gon. It would have been a wholly different story if he had.
Anakins story is a sad story full of lose and hurting partly caused by Darth Sidious. Even when he is Darth Vader he knows his whole life was manipulated by Sidious to become his apprentice and it takes sacrificing his own life to save his son to bring him back to the light.
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