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Clickable Emoticons	And...Yep...I'm a Nerd wrote: > [quote=Cartoon Freak,(time=1401965622)][quote=And...Yep...I'm a > Nerd,(time=1401933851)] > > I'm going to assume you're referring to Vader. Vader wasn't revealed as a > sympathetic antagonist until Return of the Jedi, and even then I'm sure > most young kids didn't understand the cautionary tale he was supposed to > represent. > > [/quote] > > Actually, I think most kids would understand the basic idea of "Anakin > became corrupted by power and became evil". And honestly, if kids > didn't mind the idea of the hero's father, whom he near-idolised in the > first two movie, turning out to be outright evil, then I'm pretty sure they > could handle the idea of Valka being an antagonist, even if they didn't > completely understand her character. > > [quote]As for the Valka/Drago debate, how believable could you keep Valka > as an antagonist when she would see her own son and husband coexisting with > dragons? The switch to Drago, in my mind, is justifiable.[/quote] > > It's not that hard. She would simply see domestication as a form of > subjugation, little better than what Drago is doing. For that matter, she > could use basically any argument that people make against other people > having exotic pets. > > It's actually more sensible than Drago's more generic (apparent) > motivations. I mean, seriously, why does anyone even want to conquer the > world (or any arbitrarily large area)? What are you supposed to do with it > once you have it? [/quote] > > But that's an oversimplification in a sense. It wasn't power in the > traditional sense that began Anakin's march to corruption, but rather the > desire to control that which was uncontrollable. His love and passion > (forbidden Jedi emotions) caused him to seek a way to circumvent death, not > for the sake of dominance, but out of love. This initially pure motivation > is what led him to turn to Palpatine. So while I agree that a young child > might pick up on Anakin being corrupted, if that's all they took away from > the story then they still wouldn't be taking away the whole story.
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MartianArchaeologist 07 Jun 2014, 19:04

Look up the term "contagonist" on the web (nope, haven't seen the movie yet--still shooting in the dark)

http://dramatica.com/questions/what-is- ... antagonist

http://dramatica.com/dictionary/contagonist

http://fivescribes.blogspot.com/2008/09 ... etype.html

It will be interesting to see which character plays what role.

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