ISMA RANTS: Darth Vader, Anakin Skywalker, and the Difference Between Tragedy and Victimhood
Dave Filoni recently spoke at a Maul: Shadow Lord finale screening in Los Angeles, and his thoughts on Darth Vader made the rounds. It's a genuinely insightful passage — and mostly correct. But there's one specific framing that I think subtly misreads George Lucas's mythic blueprint, and it's worth examining carefully. This isn't a hit piece on Filoni. He understands Star Wars better than most people alive. But understanding something deeply and framing it correctly through the mythic continuity lens are two different things. And the difference matters — because framing determines meaning, and meaning is everything in myth.
