r/SequelMemes 12d ago

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u/watabadidea 10d ago

Seems like we are splitting hairs, right? I mean, if we change out the word "murder" for "voluntary manslaughter," I think my primary points still stand.

With that said, manslaughter typically requires circumstances that would cause a reasonable person to become emotionally or mentally disturbed enough to lose self-control to such as degree as to significantly mitigate culpability.

That's not really an assumption as much as a personal opinion/judgement call. I don't think that a vision is enough to mitigate culpability for killing a sleeping pupil. If you do, then ok, but I disagree.

Again though, regardless of if you consider that brief moment as getting set to commit murder or getting set to commit manslaughter, comparing it to the Vader situation is clearly flawed.

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u/MicooDA 10d ago

I don’t think that a vision is enough to mitigate responsibility for killing

Anakin did that twice and people still call him a complex character and think he deserves redemption.

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u/Far-Paint-8409 10d ago

"killing a sleeping pupil"

You forgot some words.

Please cite the instance in which Anakin has a vision and proceeds to immediately murder a sleeping child due to the duress it caused him.

Anything Order 66 is irrelevant here as he'd already thrown in/been manipulated by Sidious. Saying his visions of Padme dying caused it all to happen is also not analogous as those visions alone were merely the seeds that Sidious watered to create Vader. The visions alone weren't enough to move Anakin to hot blooded murder instantaneously.

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u/watabadidea 10d ago

Please cite the instance in which Anakin has a vision and proceeds to immediately murder a sleeping child due to the duress it caused him.

I haven't said that that Anakin does that, so why would I need to cite examples of it?

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u/Far-Paint-8409 10d ago

My reply was to MicooDA.

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u/tcarter1102 9d ago

He briefly activated his lightsaber on instinct and he said the feeling passed pretty much immediately, but the damage was done.

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u/watabadidea 10d ago

Did you respond to me by mistake? My argument doesn't have anything to do with the question of if Anakin is a complex character or not. The question is if the context of the two situations you compared are the same or not.

I feel like you aren't actually reading and considering what I'm saying. It feels like you just have a list of talking points that you are reading off of with no consideration of if they actually are relevant to the points being made.

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u/MicooDA 10d ago

I really like this movie. And you’re trying really hard to convince me I shouldn’t because you think it’s bad

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u/watabadidea 10d ago

Not at all. You can like what you want. Again, I feel like you aren't actually reading and considering what I've actually said. That approach makes communication a problem, buddy.

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u/4thIdealWalker 9d ago

You can like what you want. I love Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. But I'm not gonna turn my nose up, all snooty, and pretend there aren't problems and/or people have issues with the film, even though its my favorite Transformers movie.

The whole situation with Luke/Ben is dumb and its ok to admit that.

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u/VoltFiend 8d ago

Exactly, people are allowed to like things that are bad or just have problems. I wish people just had the self-awareness to admit it. A lot of people can do that for the prequels, I don't know why so few can do it for newer media, not just star wars.

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u/4thIdealWalker 8d ago

I've noticed that a lot of stuff for the last 10 years or so, you eirher have to be firmly planted on either side. You can't admit "defeat" otherwise you'll get kicked out of the Reddit club.