gffa:I’M GONNA READ WAY TOO MUCH INTO THIS FOR A MINUTE.What was quite possibly just a throwaw
gffa:I’M GONNA READ WAY TOO MUCH INTO THIS FOR A MINUTE.What was quite possibly just a throwaway extra moment in the comic really worked because it’s such a meta commentary about Vader–Karbin was enhanced by Doctor Cyclo, who modeled him after General Grievous’ design, who himself was (narratively speaking) a proto-Vader, someone who had cut themselves off from their humanity by using mechanical limbs as a defense against being a feeling, thinking person.That’s the thing about Darth Vader–he isn’t a monster because of the machinery, it’s just a convenient excuse he uses to further distance himself from his humanity (just like Grievous), the true monster is the man who chose to do everything he did.Having Cylo be the one to create Korbin, who also intended to replace Vader, neither of them Force-sensitive, but instead all about technology, drawing on the connections that Grievous wasn’t Force-sensitive, either, but all about mechanics, to parallel the story of Vader’s life–that technology always threatened to replace him as the Emperor’s right hand.The Death Star was a technological terror that didn’t need the Force to destroy a planet and Vader was threatened by it because it could take his place. [x][x][x] Now Korbin is a technological terror attempting to take his place. Cylo was a technological terror attempting to take his place. It’s a repeating refrain of technology trying to replace the Force and Vader has to strike them all down (or at least survive their destruction) in order to keep proving over and over that he still has value and worth.He has to defeat, in part, a reflection of himself (narratively speaking), the “more machine than man”, because he has to keep justifying that this path he chose and everything he sacrificed for it, was worth it, that he will be the only technological terror and Force-user that is the right hand of the Emperor. Otherwise, he has nothing and all of it was for nothing. So of course he has to strike Korbin down, of course he has to strike Cylo down, of course he has to keep facing the Death Star as his replacement and try to survive it–and it’s rather fitting that he finally dies on the second Death Star when he rejects the idea that the only thing he has is to be the Emperor’s right hand.He can finally let go and doesn’t have to strike down or outlive another technological terror just to prove that he’s stronger than all of them. He finally rejects the confusing tangle of machines and the dark side, to instead let it all go and find what gives him true peace. -- source link
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