09-27-2026, 10:34 PM
" Lucas is really too crap at dialogue to have properly fleshed him out"
It isn't just the dialogue - Anakin's a whinger. If he wasn't he'd not have griped about his progress (i.e. lack of status) on the Force training. No warrior whinges. Ambition's part of warriordom, but complaining isn't.
When Grettir receives Glam's fatal curse, he doen't gripe, he just gets on with being Grettir until the curse catches up with him, 'sick and nigh to death' already when his killers burst in on him. When Angle, his ultimate killer, chips his sword blade striking at Grettir's head, Grettir simply asks why he spoiled a good weapon. That's a hero.
It isn't just the dialogue - Anakin's a whinger. If he wasn't he'd not have griped about his progress (i.e. lack of status) on the Force training. No warrior whinges. Ambition's part of warriordom, but complaining isn't.
When Grettir receives Glam's fatal curse, he doen't gripe, he just gets on with being Grettir until the curse catches up with him, 'sick and nigh to death' already when his killers burst in on him. When Angle, his ultimate killer, chips his sword blade striking at Grettir's head, Grettir simply asks why he spoiled a good weapon. That's a hero.
"Whenever you see reference to a new paradigm you should always, under all circumstances, take cover" J. K. Galbraith, The Observer, 21 June 1998