Now I have to be careful how I present this, the last thing I would ever want to do is offend Jason -not like he'll ever see this though- and I don't want to come off as a troubled fanatic. Duh; Darth Vader is a frick'n evil Sith lord, all he want is to create power for himself and destroy others. This is the whole meaning of the Sith religion -I call it that because it pretty much is-. It's funny that I read Jason's post today because I also read a post from Movie Blog mentioning this very same evil of the Sith in an interview with actor Ian McDiarmid.

"I think the Emperor is the incarnation of evil, and he's only really interested in power and manipulation ... Nothing else gives him any pleasure. He's a Sith from way back, and they don't have a moral universe. They want to create power for themselves by destroying others. It's very interesting to play a character that is irredeemable. There are even real people that have that kind of motiveless malignancy. It's like watching [former Yugoslavia president Slobodan] Milosevic, somebody that only seems interested in power and manipulation."

So there you have it; I know how it is, the last time I watched Empire I thought it was so cool that Vader blocked Boba Fett's blaster shot in the carbonite chamber so it would not hit 3-PO. -Because he frick'n built him-