darth vader’s approach through town at night when he is a waking nightmare, a vicious monster, and obi-wan stands and watches is exactly what i hoped it would be. vader kills innocents without hesitation or regret, with the act of ending of a life is so trivial to him, killing so easy and familiar. obi-wan could barely breathe the whole time, he could probably feel him in the force, feel his malice, his icy presence so near and overwhelming. when he asks what vader’s become, it’s less of a question than a rebuke, because he knows intimately what he’s become, and getting chased and burned was probably almost preferable than those interminable moments of vader’s approach, that infinity of hanging suspended in the knowledge that anakin was there, really there, just outside andthat fog of evil and pain and death was anakin. this show is dark, very dark, at times, and vader was a perfect walking atrocity, and obi-wan’s suffering at his approach was exactly right haha
