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I always find it ironic how much these far right men who make Star Wars content love to talk about Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader and love to present themselves as experts on the character.
Isn't Anakin the character whose portrayal you disliked so much that you bullied a child off the movie industry? Isn't Anakin the character whose portrayal you disliked so much you made Hayden Christensen not want to be seen in public for years?
These men love to present themselves as just "passionate movie lovers" and justify everything they did to Jake and Hayden with "we were just criticizing bad acting". No what you've always disliked is how Anakin is shown as someone who at some point in his life had people he cared about, people that cared about him, he's shown as someone who at some point didn't just feel hatred for everyone and everything, unlike you. It's not enough that at the end of the day, Anakin still turned into Vader, no the fact they dared to show him cry, love, as not being the "alpha male" these men think of themselves as, made them decide it was their life mission to ruin the careers and lives of two actors. Personally I've also always had the suspicion that Hayden Christensen never appearing to be anything like these men in interviews he gave also set them off.
And what has changed in the past couple years or so isn't how Hayden portrays Anakin or anything, it's the fact the fandom has turned so much on the idea he was a bad Anakin, that these men no longer sense they have an audience who will tolerate them berating him. The moment they think this has changed, they'll turn the chip right back on.
All this to say none of the reactions you are seeing right now regarding one of the most recent Andor episodes (if you don't know what I'm talking about be careful looking it up as it is triggering) are about the writing in Star Wars. Star Wars does a good job portraying an oppressive regime in the form of the galactic empire. The problem is these men don't care about what Star Wars is trying to tell you, these men care about using Star Wars and all the characters as vessels for their sick world view.