Darth Vader

It's so odd...watching Episode III. Anakin: so like someone I once knew. It's amazing to believe that you can think you know someone.

Anakin starts out wanting to do good, wanting to help his wife and prevent her from dying. Then, before you know it, he's killing children to help her. It's true the he loves her so much, but he lets his fear get in the way of everything.

It's so scary what fear can do to a person...or maybe not even fear, but misplaced emotions. We may want something that is "good" in it's escence, but we have the wrong view of how to get it. I just want to ask why. Why would someone do something so increibly evil and by all definitions wrong to protect themselves or someone they cared about? Why would Anakin strangle Padme if he wanted to save her so much? Why would he hurt the one thing he cared about? Why would he claim to care about someone and then turn around and almost kill them? Why would he want to cause harm to the one person he wanted to spend his life with? Why would he say all the things he said to her and turn around and almost kill her? He seemed to feel bad aobut it, but she never knew that. She never knew what he was thinking. She never knew why the man she loved would kill younglings, why he could harm someone so innocent. She died still wondering why... still wanting to know what happened to the person she thought she knew... still thinking she was wrong about everything... still questioning her own judgement... still wanting to know what really happened...