By Chris Snellgrove
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For the most part, Star Wars fans assume that Dark Vader was quite intelligent. After all, he went from a technical prodigy to a trained Jedi and was chosen with a special destiny. However, the blunt truth is that Dark Vader is amazing stupid, something confirmed by Revenge of the Sith. This film has shown that Palpatine offered to save Padme’s life before revealing that he couldn’t do it a few minutes later, and yet the unleashed Anakin Skywalker has always thrown with the dark side and murdered almost all world he knew.
Dark Vader is stupid
If you don’t think Dark Vader is stupid, just revisit the famous Revenge of the Sith Scene in which Anakin Skywalker and Mace Windu will confront Palpatine to be a Sith Lord. To influence Anakin against his Jedi colleague, Palpatine said to the young man: “I have the power to save the one you love” and that he “must choose”. Anakin conforms and cuts the hand of Windu, but after Palpatine kills the Jedi Master, he admits that he is not really able to save Padme.
More specifically, the future emperor returns to their previous discussion on Dark Plagueis, the mysterious Sith who learned the secrets of immortality. “Tichering death is a power that one has obtained,” said Palpatine, “but if we work together, I know that we can discover the secret.” In simple terms, the future Dark Vader turns out to be completely stupid when he continues to follow Palpatine’s plans after the older man has revealed that he cannot save Padme, who is the full reason Anakin was willing to become a mass murderer in the first place.
Now there are defenders of Dark Vader who say he is not really stupid in this film. Instead, he is the victim of old school manipulation techniques. And it is true that real cult leaders and other similar characters often end up traveling their subscribers in order to get the things they want. The problem with this logic, however, is that he threatens to undermine the dramatic tension which makes the prequelles which are worth watching in the first place.
Whether you love or hate them, the prequal play an important role in the mythology of Star Wars because they explain how Anakin Skywalker, chosen one and one of the most gifted Jedi in Galactic History, was seduced by The dark side. We are supposed to see how the deep attachment of the Jedi prodigal to Padme is ultimately enough to make him betray everything and everyone he knows. In short, the temptation must be This Emotionally powerful to attract him, and we can attend the tragedy of this Jedi hero gifted to become a villain.
If you accept that Anakin could be convinced by a cult leader technique, even a stormtrooper could see through, then you must accept that this future Dark Vader is stupid like a box of rocks – ER, Kyber crystals, removing All tensions of prequal. As, the emperor makes an offer that his black protégé cannot refuse, and after the villain of the arc reveals that he cannot do this offer well five minutes later, Anakin always throw with him. It would be the real equivalent of becoming Ted Bundy’s companion in exchange for a check that you will get any day now.
Newsflash: you will never have this check and Anakin was Never I will get what Palpatine has promised. Everything, of his prodigious talents in the force to his fundamental intelligence, should have told him that, but he always becomes Hitler space according to the most obvious lie of the galaxy. Of course, Dark Vader is perhaps the most scary of Star Wars, but do not go wrong: he is also stupid enough to make Jar-Jar Binks look like a rocket scientist.
