Again going back to RLM but Mike explained it best when he said Vader was more of an enforcer like an ss officer in nazi germany than space jesus or space john wick.
Yeah, Vader in the first SW movie was more like hired muscle instead of the Emperor’s right hand man. He’s subservient to Tarkin and he’s openly mocked by Imperial officers throughout the movie. Certainly not someone who’s basically second in command of the whole Empire.
I’m sure something in the canon explained its way around this, but it’s obvious that George Lucas didn’t have the backstories of these characters planned from the beginning like he’d claimed.
It’s even called out in the original trilogy in the first film lmao.
“…your sad devotion to that ancient religion.”
“I find your lack of faith disturbing.”
This is one of the most famous scenes and one of the most quoted lines in the whole series. Even in-universe, people talk shit to Vader straight to his face about being nothing more than the Emperor’s attack dog when he needs someone competent to do some evil shit.
In universe jedi & sith are seen as religious cults. In KOTOR the sith-jedi war is called “Jedi Civil War” because people think its about jedi fighting over “doctrine”.
Himmler build a larp nazi arthurian pagan castle in wewelsburg because it was a nexus of the spirits of fallen saxon warriors or something- replace saxon with sith and that’s very much palps.
Again going back to RLM but Mike explained it best when he said Vader was more of an enforcer like an ss officer in nazi germany than space jesus or space john wick.
Yeah, Vader in the first SW movie was more like hired muscle instead of the Emperor’s right hand man. He’s subservient to Tarkin and he’s openly mocked by Imperial officers throughout the movie. Certainly not someone who’s basically second in command of the whole Empire.
I’m sure something in the canon explained its way around this, but it’s obvious that George Lucas didn’t have the backstories of these characters planned from the beginning like he’d claimed.
It’s even called out in the original trilogy in the first film lmao.
“…your sad devotion to that ancient religion.”
“I find your lack of faith disturbing.”
This is one of the most famous scenes and one of the most quoted lines in the whole series. Even in-universe, people talk shit to Vader straight to his face about being nothing more than the Emperor’s attack dog when he needs someone competent to do some evil shit.
In universe jedi & sith are seen as religious cults. In KOTOR the sith-jedi war is called “Jedi Civil War” because people think its about jedi fighting over “doctrine”.
If the SS had pagan occult magics like some consipracists say, they’d still be the SS. Vader can be an evil wizard and also a space nazi.
Himmler build a larp nazi arthurian pagan castle in wewelsburg because it was a nexus of the spirits of fallen saxon warriors or something- replace saxon with sith and that’s very much palps.