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"you joined the dark side for nothing"
thats how the dark side works. thats the tragedy of it.

Ashoka: "I can't kill the clones, they're my friends!"
Yoda: "on a 37 killstreak I am."

Fun fact:

Hayden and Ewan trained so hard that their fight scenes didn't have to be sped up.  They really were moving that fast during filming.

Anakin needed a father, not a brother. Qui-Gon's death sealed the fate of the galaxy.

Alex took almost as long to realize Palpatine was the bad guy as the Jedi did.

53:20 Well, C-3PO did get wiped - but R2 wasn't. And that's the reason why he's so disobedient in the Original Trilogy and never stays with the Ship when he's told to do so: The last time he was told to do so, he lost his Master, his friend - he is quite literally traumatized.

Anakin is basically the “fallen angel.” Look up that piece of art and you’ll see the resemblance. There’s a shot during the final duel that mirrors the painting almost exactly.

Padme's last words "I know there's good in him"
Anakin's last words "you were right"
he's talking to Luke, who also saw he had good in him, but it's almost symbolic of him answering Padme's final words instead.

"Hello there" is actually a callback to a new hope, when Ben saves Luke and recognises R2

One thing I love, Anakin tells R2 to stay at the ship before he kills the Separatist leaders, and Anakin never comes back afterwards, and in the original trilogy, every time Luke tells R2 to "stay at the ship" he never does. This could potentially be accurate bc he never had his memory wiped like Goldman/C-3PO, but has never been confirmed that I'm aware.

42:13 "It hurts me to see her hurting... God, she's got some plump lips"

The duality of Alex

50:00

I think by this point Anakin realizes how severely he messed up with his choices… He realizes that he has ruined his own life and destroyed everything he cared about.

But by this point he is too far gone to turn back. Palpatine and the Sith are literally all he has left at this point.

So my personal interpretation is that the rest of his life, as Darth Vader, is spent partially as a form of penance- in servitude to Palpatine not necessarily out of dedication to the Sith, but out of self-hatred.

"I'm drooling" is a completely appropriate response when looking at Obi-Wan Kenobi.

"There's never any music playing for the fight scenes."
Duel of the Fates is disappointed in you Alex.

47:50 Can we just appreciate, that Anakin was so cocky, he tried to pull the same move Obi Wan did against Maul, ON THE GUY THAT DID IT???

Hayden’s face acting is spectacular in this movie you can really see it all with no words

I still love when Palpatine told Anakin to leave Obi-Wan (during opening rescue). Anakin say "his fate will be the same as ours." All three die on Death Stars.

It's important to note that only C3PO's mind was wiped, because Senator Organa's translator droid having knowledge of Vader's children was obviously considered a risk. R2, however, remembers everything, which is why in Star Wars Episode IV:A New Hope, he remembers Obi Wan but C3PO is completely oblivious.

Padme’s last words: there is stll good in him

Anakin’s last words: you were right