• Sundray@lemmus.org
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    6 hours ago

    Nothing in the prequels contradicts the possibility that Anakin Skywalker is kind of a doofus.

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      One on one Anakin is a goat. In a solo space craft, he is also a great.

      But he never got to Jedi Master for lots of reasons and I suspect that part of it is his problem with large complex situations. He can’t even keep the Han from getting his peeps and two idiot droids from escaping in front of him while surrounded by his troops

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        Are you talking about in A New Hope? They intentionally let them escape so that they could track them back to the rebel base.

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        The movies are one thing, but in the Clone Wars TV series Anakin was a reasonably competent general.

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          Anakin’s lowest point was when he was written by George Lucas, unfortunately. Other writers made him shine.