I want to believe this is a joke, but nope, that sounds exactly like the kind of stupid rationale we heard for Mara's death and every other idiotic plot and characterization problem in the last several years
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I can't believe how many people I would otherwise count among the more rational denizens of Lit are saying that it would have been a fantastic idea. I know that people like his character and feel his death was a mistake -- but seriously, I feel exactly the same way about Mara, and if I heard that they were going to have Mara magically come back to life through magic fairy dust or whatever the next Force power invented will be, my response would still be EPIC FAIL. If you want the EU to be taken seriously, if you want to treat both the universe and the readers with respect, you can't do things like that. I am not someone who appreciates the 'death as a temporary setback' mindset of comic books. :p
I too am tired of Anakin being treated like a saint. I really liked his character, too, but he wasn't without flaws, and I think the fact that he was cut down in his youth, just as he was starting to come into his own, overshadows the possible negatives in his future. I can understand the characters looking back on him like that because of
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That was the stupidest idea yet. For crying out loud, why not just not kill off Jacen instead to resurrecting a kid that had been dead for so long? It would have made Anakin's death meaningless, plus tormenting Tahiri about her love for him as was done in the LotF books also meaningless.
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I too am tired of Anakin being treated like a saint. I really liked his character, too, but he wasn't without flaws, and I think the fact that he was cut down in his youth, just as he was starting to come into his own, overshadows the possible negatives in his future. I can understand the characters looking back on him like that because of ( ... )
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That's just plain nuts.
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