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Anakin is written as a bad guy from the start (not counting TPM, since TPM-Anakin barely has any character). Still, nothing of this qualifies as an “arc” or even mere character progression. But this is writing DUMB characters which, admittedly, is more difficult than writing “smart characters who are wrong” ones. I’ll even give you that the writing goes to some distance to try and show this, like showing Anakin (and Yoda, and OB1, and Windu etc.) to be completely unable to understand things that would’ve been completely obvious to anyone else, to the point where poor Palpatine gets frustrated and eventually has to straight up spell out loud that he is evil. Which… kind of make sense, I guess, since it’s pretty though to sell toys inspired on a bunch of who were utterly wrong for 3 movies out of 3. In theory, at least, since when it comes to the actual movies Lucas seemed more concerned about showing the Jedi to be (what he thought was) badass and cool. To have a ‘character arc’ change needs to be subtle or else you end up with ‘awful writing’ which is an ENTIRELY different thing (and it’s precisely what *ruins* a character). Like most of the prequels “characters” (and I use the word veeeeery loosely when talking about the PT), Yoda goes from one extreme to the other when the story needs without anything even remotely resembling some degree of subtlety. He’s never once shown to be “all gung ho to fight” right until the very moment the plot demands it.Īnd even if we want to give the benefit of the doubt to this idea – tha “change” you’re talking about is never shown and, even more importantly for what we’re talking about it, is completely out of place.
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By all means, Yoda is shown to incarnate the “Very Old, Powerful and Wise Master” in AotC exactly the same as in ESB. Now, movies like to pretend this kind of characterz do get arcs like actual characters (because there’s people who buy that) but, obviously, they don’t. The best that could be said is that - sometimes - it tries to put a tiny little bit of a spin on those, so that they don’t feel entirely like mono-dimensional stock characters, but that’s all the “depth” there is.
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SW has archetypes and stereotypes: The Good Hearted Farm Boy The Wise Old Man The Scoundrel The Princess The Dark Lord – and so on, and so forth. Breaking Bad had characters’ arc, because BrBa had actual characters. Actually, the “arc” concept is largely abused ESPECIALLY when it comes to SW.