The Younglings Issue

i think Lucus did it so we can see how evil vader/anakin has become

They could have left the scene a bit longer, maybe with the kids backing away terrified and Vader taking a couple of meaningful steps toward them with his saber raised. I would have liked to see Vader take a few Jedi out just to show what Obi Wan was going up against, i mean how hard was it for him to waste the Separatists?

Originally posted by darkandroid
i think Lucus did it so we can see how evil vader/anakin has become

Nooo... really? Ya think?

i wanted to see those little f*ckers die hard!

Im not sure, but when Obi looks at the security camera doesnt it show Vader slaughtering the younglings??

this is why i think the film was so great. we allhad our own ideas as to what was gonna happen in ROTS but it completely surprised everyone by being different but the best way it could have been.

Well I dunno that I actually wanted to see 5 year olds getting chopped down.. but more fighting with some of the other Jedi in the Temple would have been nice ( ok the OPPOSITTE of nice but you know what I mean 😛)

i would like it if they showed him like slice a youngling just like the tusken slaughtering.

*flips his finger to the clown who was yelling till he was blue in the face that the scene WOULD show Anakin mercilessly butchering children. (in a thread from about a month ago)

But yes we should have seen a bit more action at the Temple before Anakin enters the room with the children in it. I have no desire to see him dicing and slicing children, but adults are fair game

I reckon that there should have been a scene with a mean (but dumb) mutha of a little jedi who pulls his sabre out on vader.

then get annihalated.

badly.

i really liked the scene. i thought it was better that we didnt see it b/c it just showed what a badass he was and let our imaginations take control

it was SUPPOSED to be disturbing
you have to make it feel like anikin is now truly darth vader, even to the point of killing kids
darth vader is not supposed to be likeable

perhaps they'll include a scene in the dvd

Originally posted by henniestevens
Im not sure, but when Obi looks at the security camera doesnt it show Vader slaughtering the younglings??

No, they were padawans but not the younglings.

they were the kids Yoda and OB1 were talking about during "who could have done this?"

Yup.

anyone bitching about the slaying of the younglings needs to remember....Darth Vader is probably the biggest symbol in the history of popular culture for "Evil," and true evil that spawns legends & forms generations of stories based on the mythical proportions that "Darth Vader" has become, needs some explicit display of un-sympathetic Evil....i don't wanna hear that 'well the emperor is truly the evil one,' when casual fans think of star wars, or say the name Darth Vader in another context, it is simply to say "evil incarnate."

i.e. someone could say "he went completely darth vader on his ass, and kicked the hell out of him." and we get that....we know that he represents evil incarnate, and this scene was absolutely needed to give credence to that reputation, so he's not just truly palpy's bittch.

this was crucial, imho.

That part was sooooooooo upsetting im glad it didn't show him actually KILL the kids that wouldve made me cry harder (which is hard to believe). Sure it would've been cool if it switched scenes when he was about to strike the boy but i still got chills with the way it was done and I thought it was fine. Incredibly sad, but fine. 😘

I think it would be looking LESS powerful if they showed him killing the kids

This was actually what made the movie. Aside from the terrible writing, the characters were interesting. Having anakin kill little kids was a perfect segway on his journey to the darkside. Yeah, he killed mace, but that was a bit implsive. They could have shown him just merely slaughtering old jedi's but it wouldnt have been as ruthless. Hey, that young jedi kid who got killed, isnt he the kid who played anakin in episode1? I know he was in episode 2, i tried to keep my eye out for him.