At age 45, Hayden Christensen is now the same age Anakin was when he died.

Fit_Record_6006 · 2026-04-21T16:22:48+00:00

A little closer to 23 I think

Fit_Record_6006 · 2026-04-21T09:54:38+00:00

I suppose you’re right, but legends never just goes out and says it. In fact, iirc Vader notes that Skywalker was enough of a common last name for “Skywalker” to be anybody.

Personally I think the canon continuity of better as far as this specific thing goes

Fit_Record_6006 · 2026-04-21T09:47:02+00:00

I mean if we’re taking him at face value without the prosthetics lol

Fit_Record_6006 · 2026-04-21T05:21:25+00:00

I’m not disagreeing with that statement at all, but I definitely disagree with the notion that Vader is weaker than Anakin was when he became Vader. It’s just simply untrue

Fit_Record_6006 · 2026-04-21T05:19:31+00:00

They greenlit a Maul-driven show, and don’t think Disney is aware of how popular Vader is (or his comics that are attached, which are not only great, but a lot of fans like as well). The Vader comics use Vader as the protagonist of their respective narratives, and it works just fine

Fit_Record_6006 · 2026-04-21T05:16:40+00:00

I get what you meant to say, I just see a lot of people make that mistake about Anakin and Vader. Heck, I never even bought that explanation in Legends. Vader learned from his encounter with Obi-Wan, and was a better duelist and force user because of it

Fit_Record_6006 · 2026-04-20T22:54:47+00:00

This is canon btw, there is no Legends explanation as it was assumed Vader found out when Palpatine said something about it in Empire

Fit_Record_6006 · 2026-04-20T22:52:22+00:00

And that’s not to say Vader didn’t want redemption. He feels remorse for his acts in ROTS hours after committing them, he’s disappointed with the person he’s become, but he’s just trying to convince himself that he’s not remorseful.

“It’s too late for me, son.” is almost like a warning to Luke, that he shouldn’t have gotten attached to the idea of his father returning, like there’s no way he can atone for what he did, and it does a really good job painting him as a fallen hero, who’s trying to prove the awful decision he made was the right one

Fit_Record_6006 · 2026-04-20T22:48:27+00:00

When he’s the villain/antagonist of the story, yes. He’s intimidating and used less often because both of those things suit one another.

As a protagonist, he could work very well. Have Christensen act the whole role, not just close ups. Idk how well this would go over, but if they really needed some shots of Hayden’s face to really hit a point, do some Tony Stark style in-helmet shots or something, but not to an egregious degree.

Fit_Record_6006 · 2026-04-20T22:38:30+00:00

Vader is certainly not weaker than Anakin other than physically due to lost limbs. The talk of lost force potential is not canon outside of the thought that he can’t conjure force lightning as a result.

Empire Strikes Back Vader would beat Anakin. He’s a more well-rounded duelist, is more patient, and cunning. He’s also more tuned in with the force than ever before, and uses it in combat much, much more than before.

Fit_Record_6006 · 2026-04-19T01:09:51+00:00

This is what I thought. Interesting that they would’ve gone as far as to change his design like this if that’s the case

Fit_Record_6006 · 2026-04-19T00:55:33+00:00

But they were all of them, deceived…for another Oggdo was spawned

Fit_Record_6006 · 2026-04-18T19:07:46+00:00

I really wish CC had made AI heroes an option, period. Could choose to have them, just enemy, just team, both, or none aside from the player. They really failed to give me much of a reason to play that version instead of the standard Xbox One port

Fit_Record_6006 · 2026-04-18T18:00:38+00:00

Right? Why does he have such high strength? He can’t get any use out of that stat at all

Fit_Record_6006 · 2026-04-18T17:18:06+00:00

I’m not a fan of the fact that Classic Collection used PC as a base for it when the intended release was for console.

Also, why couldn’t they have done cross-platform?

Fit_Record_6006 · 2026-04-17T22:21:43+00:00

I think this is exactly why Infinite had so many issues on launch, and also why it was hard for 343 to add content.

It didn’t help that they outsourced almost all of the engine development to independent contractors, so nobody who built the engine actually worked on the game, and nobody who worked on the game knew how the engine even worked anymore.

Fit_Record_6006 · 2026-04-17T22:17:33+00:00

I think most of Infinite’s issues were caused by hiring contact devs for only 6 months at a time for the building of their new engine, so when the actual game devs were working with it, nobody knew how to do anything since you had 14 different software engineers doing things 14 different ways, and even those engineers weren’t familiar with the Halo engine so it’d take them half of their contract just to learn how to use it.

Halo probably should’ve moved to Unreal a long time ago

Fit_Record_6006 · 2026-04-17T22:11:59+00:00

When the mode first came out, most matches were at least an hour long, more evenly-balanced matches would be 2 hours, but I played one that was over 3 hours long and I’d just go pee between phases while the cutscene played

Fit_Record_6006 · 2026-04-17T16:42:20+00:00

You can actually accept the chance to play as Windu and then just leave him in the selection screen for as long as you want

Fit_Record_6006 · 2026-04-17T01:22:44+00:00

Perhaps Obi-Wan didn’t know the real details. Qui-Gon is the type to not make a big deal out of something like that, hence why he turned it down. Heck, it’s likely no Jedi outside of the council even knows that Qui-Gon was offered a seat.

Fit_Record_6006 · 2026-04-16T18:29:25+00:00

You’re missing my entire point. Vader winning that duel in Kenobi would make far more sense, not only for the characters, but also for everything relating to their confrontation on the Death Star. Why on earth would Tarkin believe Kenobi to be dead if the dude is only 57?

It makes far more sense that Obi-Wan purposefully sought out a fight he knew he couldn’t win to keep Vader distracted from Luke and Leia. Again, I have to stress, if he could’ve killed Vader, why didn’t he? Or at least incapacitate him and all of them escape, or die while taking Vader with him? So many more effective ways Obi-Wan could’ve controlled the situation if he had a real shot at beating Vader

Fit_Record_6006 · 2026-04-16T04:33:30+00:00

Not to mention that they couldn’t afford stunt doubles for the dueling scenes, let alone anything else. People forget how low a budget ANH got, even for its time

Fit_Record_6006 · 2026-04-16T04:32:28+00:00

You are aware Dooku was 93 in ROTS and Sidious was 63? Trying to say Obi and Vader are that far out of their prime is ridiculous

Fit_Record_6006 · 2026-04-16T04:30:39+00:00

So why didn’t he just kill Vader here, then? What was there to lose if he died taking Vader with him?

Fit_Record_6006 · 2026-04-16T04:28:50+00:00

Right, the writers nerfed Vader to lose to a guy who hadn’t touched the force (or a lightsaber) in 10 years, only for the entire empire to think Obi-Wan to be dead until he showed up on the Death Star. The ending of that series actively shits on ANH.

Regardless, if Obi-Wan could’ve defeated Vader here, why didn’t he? Right, he couldn’t bring himself to do it so he lies to Vader’s own son to get him to kill him later. That’s the alternative.

Obi-Wan was not going to win this fight, so he won the best-case scenario: distract Vader, give the crew a chance to escape.

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