I'd been considering Anakin as at least mildly psychopathic from the very first prequel, given how little appropriate emotion he seems to show. His later actions fit in with that assessment, and the "tragedy" of Anakin IMO is that no one seemed to realize that he needed psychological help. It's not that he was naturally bad, just that his moral compass was cracked from childhood, and all the people around him put him in the worst possible situations for someone with that kind of problem.
With that in mind, I think he did feel for Obi-Wan, but more in a "I like you because you pay attention to me" kind of way, even if he didn't admit this to himself. Likewise with Padme. Thus he could say how much he loved them, and really think that he meant it, but then very much not mean it as soon as they were somehow "against" him because the feeling was always rooted in self-interest.
However, despite that I don't just think that for fanwank purposes, I fully acknowledge that the only reason that Revenge of the Sith managed to briefly touch my soul was because of old-trilogy nostalgia. I grew up on the original movies, and finally getting to see broken!Obi-Wan and Darth Vader and Luke and Leia and the musical themes and a new foreshadowing of the upcoming redemption...*sigh* It was epic, at least for a little while.
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Date: 2010-04-04 11:02 pm (UTC)With that in mind, I think he did feel for Obi-Wan, but more in a "I like you because you pay attention to me" kind of way, even if he didn't admit this to himself. Likewise with Padme. Thus he could say how much he loved them, and really think that he meant it, but then very much not mean it as soon as they were somehow "against" him because the feeling was always rooted in self-interest.
However, despite that I don't just think that for fanwank purposes, I fully acknowledge that the only reason that Revenge of the Sith managed to briefly touch my soul was because of old-trilogy nostalgia. I grew up on the original movies, and finally getting to see broken!Obi-Wan and Darth Vader and Luke and Leia and the musical themes and a new foreshadowing of the upcoming redemption...*sigh* It was epic, at least for a little while.