History Fridge / AttackOfTheClones

* Anakin does understand the Jedi tenets regarding attachment, and explains them to Padme fairly succinctly: No, Jedi aren't expected to be emotionless robots. Yes, they're allowed to love and care about the people around them. Anakin obviously still loves his mother, and everyone's fine with that. He loves Obi-Wan in a familial way, and everyone's fine with that. What Jedi frown upon are ''passion'' and ''possessiveness'' - the inability to let people go, the willingness to compromise your morals and principles and shirk your duty for them. Anakin gets it. Then ''actively chooses to disregard those teachings with Padme''. Apart from his vengeance on the Tusken raiders, this signifies the beginning of his fall - he knows he's allowed to at least love and care for Padme, he doesn't have to be indifferent to her [[note]] there's some debate about whether Jedi are truly expected to be CelibateHero or if romantic or sexual entanglements are permitted, though it seems marriage is fairly staunchly off the table for them.[[/note]] But he does make a conscious choice to move forward with her in a way that actively goes against the principles he's committed to upholding and will introduce a lot of secrecy between him, Obi-Wan, and the rest of the Order.

* Anakin does understand the Jedi tenets regarding attachment, and explains them to Padme fairly succinctly: No, Jedi aren't expected to be emotionless robots. Yes, they're allowed to love and care about the people around them. Anakin obviously still loves his mother, and everyone's fine with that. He loves Obi-Wan in a familial way, and everyone's fine with that. What Jedi frown upon are ''passion'' and ''possessiveness'' - the inability to let people go, the willingness to compromise your morals and principles and shirk your duty for them. Anakin gets it. Then ''actively chooses to disregard those teachings with Padme''. Apart from his vengeance on the Tusken raiders, this signifies the beginning of his fall - he knows he's allowed to at least love and care for Padme, he doesn't have to be indifferent to her [[note: there's some debate about whether Jedi are truly expected to be CelibateHero or if romantic or sexual entanglements are permitted, though it seems marriage is fairly staunchly off the table for them.]] But he does make a conscious choice to move forward with her in a way that actively goes against the principles he's committed to upholding and will introduce a lot of secrecy between him, Obi-Wan, and the rest of the Order.

* When you look at Shmi's condition, she appears barely responsive to stimulus and is deprived of strength. She was clearly tortured at the hands of her captors. [[CruelAndUnusualDeath Beaten]], [[ATasteOfTheLash whipped]], [[DeniedFoodAsPunishment starved]], and quite probably... ''raped.'' With all of this in mind, it's no wonder that when Anakin realizes the cruelty of how she died upon discovery, and the sheer unfairness of it all... [[PayEvilUntoEvil he unleashes his anger so completely.]]

* Anakin's thinly-veiled sales pitch for dictatorship seems at first to be a product of grooming by Palpatine, but consider the other factors that go into this. First, Anakin spent his formative years as a slave on Tatooine, where Republic laws and principles are nothing more than empty words. Then, he joins the Jedi, who are certainly not a democratic institution. What's more, Obi-Wan's comments about politicians suggest that, in their work as a Jedi, the two of them encounter the democratically elected leaders of the Republic at their worst, seeing the seedy side of things up close and personal. No wonder Anakin doesn't think much of democracy.

* Anakin's thinly-veiled sales pitch for dictatorship seems at first to be a product of grooming by Palpatine, but consider the other factors that go into this. First, Anakin spent his formative years as a slave on Tatooine, where Republic laws and principles are nothing more than empty words. Then, he joins the Jedi, who are certainly not a democratic institution. What's more, Obi-Wan's comments about politicians suggest that, in their work as a Jedi, the two of them encounter the democratically elected leaders of the Republic at their worst, seeing the seedy of things up close and personal. No wonder Anakin doesn't think much of democracy.

* When you look at Shmi's condition, she appears barely responsive to stimulus and is deprived of strength. She was clearly tortured at the hands of her captors. [[CruelAndUnusualDeath Beaten]], [[ATasteOfTheLash whipped]], [[DeniedFoodAsPunishment starved]], and quite probably... ''raped.'' With all of this in mind, it's no wonder that when Anakin realizes the cruelty of how she died upon discovery, and the sheer unfairness of it all... [[PayEvilUntoEvil he unleashes his anger so completely.]]
* Anakin's recounting of the murder of Tuskens is widely hated but fans haven't considered his emotional state. He's in shock. His mother died in his arms after being kidnapped and tortured, then he flew into a rage and slaughtered them all, even the children. Especially the line "They're dead!" sounds like someone in stupor who can't believe what he has witnessed. He's horrified of what he's done and what he's becoming. He can't be expected to act calmly or rationally.

* When you look at Shmi's condition, she appears barely responsive to stimulus and is deprived of strength. She was clearly tortured at the hands of her captors. [[CruelAndUnusualDeath Beaten]], [[ATasteOfTheLash whipped]], [[DeniedFoodAsPunishment starved]], and quite probably... ''raped.'' With all of this in mind, it's no wonder that when Anakin realizes the cruelty of how she died upon discovery, and the sheer unfairness of it all... [[PayEvilUntoEvil he unleashes his anger so completely.]]

* Anakin might not like sand but what ends up saving Padme when she falls out of the gunship during the Battle of Geonois? That's right, '''sand'''. It might be "course, rough and irritating" but it's also '''soft'''.

* Having Dooku hit Anakin with Force lightning isn't just an in-universe tactical decision to separate him and Obi-Wan so Dooku could fight each on their own. It also serves as foreshadowing for ''Return of the Jedi.'' Rewatch the scene where Luke is being tortured. The ''moment'' Palpatine starts throwing lightning at Luke, Vader looks around and is clearly disturbed. This isn't just a father watching his son getting tortured; he's remembering how terribly debiliating it was from his own personal experience!

* When you look at Shmi's condition, she appears barely responsive to stimulus and is deprived of strength. She was clearly tortured at the hands of her captors. [[CruelAndUnusualDeathBeaten]], [[ATasteOfTheLash whipped]], [[DeniedFoodAsPunishment starved]], and quite probably... ''raped.'' With all of this in mind, it's no wonder that when Anakin realizes the cruelty of how she died upon discovery, and the sheer unfairness of it all... [[PayEvilOntoEvil he unleashes his anger so completely.]]

* The fear that the Sand People show for Obi-Wan Kenobi in ''A New Hope'' is much more understandable when you realize that a lone Jedi was also responsible for slaying an entire tribe of them living in the same area a little over two decades earlier.

** It's also confirmed that Anakin IS DesperateForAffection due to his abandonment issues--it's the most evident with Padme, but he also clutches Obi-Wan and Ahsoka in the same kind of emotional vice-grip.

*** Perhaps the ''Star Wars'' universe differs from reality on this point, but as far as reality is concerned, ''accents are not inherited through genetics''. And unless I'm mistaken (I haven't really dug into any EU material), the clones weren't raised by Jango Fett...they were age-accelerated and boot-camped. So why should they share his accent at all? (Boba Fett, on the other hand, appears to have been raised by him, so ''his'' accent makes sense.)