Star Wars Just Made Vader's Dark Side Connection Even More Horrifying
Warning! SPOILERS for Obi-Wan Kenobi episode 4.
Obi-Wan Kenobi episode 4 further included Darth Vader and his Inquisitors, with the show making the former's dark side connection even more horrifying than before. The show up to this point has shown Vader at his most brutal, especially in episode 3. However, episode 4 mentions several things that make Vader's connection to the dark side even stronger.
Darth Vader in Obi-Wan Kenobi is played by none other than Hayden Christensen, reprising his role as Anakin Skywalker from the prequel trilogy. One of the main reasons Anakin fell to the dark side was explained by Yoda in Episode I — The Phantom Menace. Yoda stated that fear is the path to the dark side, as fear leads to hate, hate leads to anger, and anger leads to suffering.
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A lot of Anakin's fears were introduced in the prequel trilogy, such as his fears of his mother and his wife Padme dying. These fears being the focus for the majority of the prequels allowed Anakin to feel much more sympathetic and complex than Vader was in the original trilogy. However, Obi-Wan Kenobi episode 4 explored the hatred, anger, and suffering sides of Vader's dark side connection in more ways than one, reinforcing the villain's status as a dark Sith Lord.
The first way in which Obi-Wan Kenobiepisode 4 explored Vader's dark side connection is through the Mustafar system. In the episode, it is established that the entirety of the Mustafar system, not just the central planet of Mustafar, is under Vader's jurisdiction. However, as is shown in both Obi-Wan Kenobi and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Vader's main base of operations is on the planet of Mustafar. This planet is
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