Tuesday, June 14, 2005

Diagnosis of Darth Vader

[via the Grand Rounds] Yeah, he's not right in the head. We knew that....

2 comments:

Queenie said...

Scratching your chin?

Q

Ahistoricality said...

Trying to figure out how useful it is to do psychological analysis on a fictional character in a story based on mythic archetypes (and Japanese epics) with deep continuity problems. And the analysis doesn't address the final piece of the puzzle: how such a thoroughly screwed up psyche could achieve anything like redemption in a sudden burst at the end.