Star Wars And The Terminator: The Love Of A Man

Stars Wars is a Sci fiction-family trilogy about Anakin Skywalker, a Jedi who learns the way of the force and falls in love with a young girl who he marries when he becomes a man.

Senator Palpatine who murdered his own master befriends him as a friend and mentor and seduces him towards the dark side of the force where he is led to kill his friend and master Obi-wan Kenobi and eventually his own wife Padme who was pregnant with his twins Luke and Leia.

What makes him turn to the dark side of the force is Senator Palpatine who continuously pushes him to distrust the Jedi Counsel and his mentor while fueling the idea that he can stop death by learning the powers of immortality that is only obtained by the dark side of the force.

Anakin has been plagued with premonitions of his wife's death of childbirth and vows to protect her from death when he could not save his own mother who also died the same way before. Senator Palpatine maliciously put Anakin in situations where he praises Anakin for his patience and wisdom when he is suggested to the Jedi council that he becomes a master while humiliating him when he is not made one because he would be rejected since his powers do not extend past his political arena.

The Terminator is about a man named Kyle Reese who saves Sarah O Connor, the woman he loves and the mother of the soldier who saves the world from the machines that rise against them.

A robotic assassin called the Terminator has been programmed to kill her because her son is a savior of humanity. Sarah O Connor is a sweet and fragile young woman who works as a waitress who meets the father of her son John Connor and learns she needs to survive the terminator because she is the last hope for human survival even though she wants nothing to do with the coming war.         

These two stories are so powerfully driven by male characters who are motivated by love, the most powerful human emotion to not only be a savior but to die for love too. The legacy of these characters is what makes their acts of love, not excitement for adventure or ambition that makes them more fascinating than ordinary heroes.

Yet these characters are often misunderstood as dark and obsessive because it is not easy to accept that a villain who was once a man could love a woman like Anakin Skywalker did and a man who would love a woman just by looking at her photograph and sense her sadness like Kyle Reese.