{"id":161581,"date":"2015-03-28T15:31:34","date_gmt":"2015-03-28T15:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/03\/28\/greencarnations-berlynn-wohl-emmagrant01-no\/"},"modified":"2018-09-09T14:22:24","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T14:22:24","slug":"greencarnations-berlynn-wohl-emmagrant01-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/03\/28\/greencarnations-berlynn-wohl-emmagrant01-no\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-161581 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/03\/28\/greencarnations-berlynn-wohl-emmagrant01-no\/attachment\/161582\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/tumblr_nlmg6gmiKx1qho2rco1_500-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/tumblr_nlmg6gmiKx1qho2rco1_500-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/tumblr_nlmg6gmiKx1qho2rco1_500-100x100.gif 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/03\/28\/greencarnations-berlynn-wohl-emmagrant01-no\/attachment\/161583\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/tumblr_nlmg6gmiKx1qho2rco2_500-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/tumblr_nlmg6gmiKx1qho2rco2_500-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/tumblr_nlmg6gmiKx1qho2rco2_500-100x100.gif 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/03\/28\/greencarnations-berlynn-wohl-emmagrant01-no\/attachment\/161584\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/tumblr_nlmg6gmiKx1qho2rco3_500-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/tumblr_nlmg6gmiKx1qho2rco3_500-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/tumblr_nlmg6gmiKx1qho2rco3_500-100x100.gif 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/greencarnations.tumblr.com\/post\/114685936820\/berlynn-wohl-emmagrant01-no-one-hates-his-life\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">greencarnations<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/berlynn-wohl.tumblr.com\/post\/114684587408\/emmagrant01-no-one-hates-his-life-more-than\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">berlynn-wohl<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"xkit-colorquotes-border-item\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/emmagrant01.tumblr.com\/post\/114424560139\/no-one-hates-his-life-more-than-anakin\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">emmagrant01<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"xkit-colorquotes-border-item\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tumblr.com\/tagged\/no-one-hates-his-life-more-than-anakin\" target=\"_blank\">#no one hates his life more than anakin<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I recently watched the original trilogy on Blu-Ray complete with George Lucas\u2019 commentaries, and I have to admit that it made me feel slightly better (like this much better \u2014&gt;.&lt;\u2014) about the prequels. <b>[fasten your seatbelts for \u201crevelations\u201d you\u2019ve probably already heard if you\u2019re more actively involved in the Star Wars fandom than I am]<\/b> I did not benefit from seeing Darth Vader as a little kid, but Lucas summarized, in the original trilogy commentaries, a lot of what was presented in the prequels, and a couple things he pointed out made me believe that there may have been a modicum of useful information in Episodes II and III \u2014 that basically, Anakin Skywalker made a deal with the devil, got royally screwed, and now has to deal with the miserable consequences of his poor decision for every remaining moment of his life. <\/p>\n<p>Vader didn\u2019t want Luke to join the Dark Side because he still thought the Dark Side was so awesome. He just wanted one more chance to destroy the Emperor. He knew that he couldn\u2019t take out the Emperor by himself, because he didn\u2019t have much of his original body left and so could not channel the Force effectively. Only with Luke\u2019s help could he accomplish this task, and so Luke joining the Dark Side was just the means to an end. (Doesn\u2019t make him look like any better of a parent, just a different <i>kind <\/i>of shitty parent.)<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it\u2019s better that a great many of us spent decades having the fairly one-dimensional view of Vader that is presented in the original trilogy, and enjoy it for the simplified good-versus-evil space opera that it is\u2026And then, speaking for myself, when I forgot the hours of tedium that made up the prequels and just took that little bit of backstory with me, it refreshed my enthusiasm for the originals.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder: if we all knew from the beginning that Darth Vader was just a poor sad bastard who carried on being evil because he had no other options\u2026would his place in the Star Wars fandom be more like Loki\u2019s in the MCU?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><i>Oh my God. <\/i>That is so fucking good.<\/p>\n<p>WHY THE HELL WOULD I HAVE TO WATCH THE DAMN BLURAY COMMENTARIES TO LEARN THAT<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>greencarnations: berlynn-wohl: emmagrant01: #no one hates his life more than anakin I recently watched the original trilogy on Blu-Ray complete with George Lucas\u2019 commentaries, and I have to admit that it made me feel slightly better (like this much better \u2014&gt;.&lt;\u2014) about the prequels. [fasten your seatbelts for \u201crevelations\u201d you\u2019ve probably already heard if you\u2019re &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/03\/28\/greencarnations-berlynn-wohl-emmagrant01-no\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[79,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161581"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161585,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161581\/revisions\/161585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}