I asked this in another post, but I thought I'd address this topic alone here. I am curoius to here thoughts on this. I know Magnolia edited it out and most hate the "immaculate conception", as did I. Though I read this from T-bonz' site...

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Wrap your head around this. Was Darth Plagueis really Palpatine's master? Did Palpatine take the secret of Plagueis and have the midichlorians create life in the form of Anakin Skywalker? How does Palpatine know about Padmé and Anakin's dreams? The film answers NONE of these questions outright but gives us plenty of room to speculate.
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It makes it not as lame. It becomes an evil Jesus kind of. The emeperor put life in the unsuspecting slave. This chosen one was visited by the angel (padme) and visited by the kings (jedi knights). He had more power than anyone in the universe and could do great good or evil. He was to be the ultimate evil, but had the ability to be the ulitmate good, ultimately he does bring balance to the force via the new hope of luke and leia. again, I'd love to hear some opinions