Redemption of Anakin and other redemption stories (moved from Main)

[Carol]

Kemper earlier:
> > ...  I find it hard to believe true struggle with that (paraphrased) comment.
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Kemper again:
> I mean to say that I didn't see Vader struggling between good/evil.  I see him embracing evil or at least holding hands with it.


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Carol responds:
But Darth What's His Name manipulates Anakin, using Anakin's love for his wife and his fear that she'll die in childbirth. The Jedi aren't supposed to love because of the conflict between personal desires and what I suppose we could call "the greater good."

Now granted, something resembling love (and probably regret for being the worst father ever) motivates Darth Vader to turn on the emperor in the end, but love in "Star Wars" works very differently than in the HP books. (Unrequited) love motivates Snape's remorse; Anakin/Vader never feels remorse at all, as far as I can tell, and he turns to the Dark Side to begin with because of his love (all of which ironically backfires as she dies anyway and he's practically burned to death before becoming Darth What's His Name's right-hand man). 

At any rate, I agree that it's not so much a struggle between good and evil as between his love for a woman and the fight against evil. Oddly, love wins and so does evil. The feminists could have a field day with the Jedi's view of good.

Carol, no expert on the Star Wars films and wholly unable to follow the plot of the one about the clones