What are your thoughts on Anakin being the son of Palpatine? I think he is.
“It’s all based on backstories that I’d written setting up what the Jedi were, setting up what the Sith were, setting up what the Empire was, setting up what the Republic was, and how it all fit together. I spent a lot of time in developing those elements, and what each planet did, and why they did it the way they did. So I had all this material. A lot of the story elements were givens. Early on, it was that Anakin had been more or less created by the midi-chlorians, and that the midi-chlorians had a very powerful relationship to the Whills [from the first draft of Star Wars], and the power of the Whills, and all that. I never really got a chance to explain the Whills part.”
I used to have a headcanon it was Darth Plagueis who influenced the midi-chlorians and the Force struck back at him trying to find a means to immortality by creating the Chosen One but this is George’s explanation he gave in a retrospect for The Phantom Menace a couple of years ago.
https://www.starwars.com/news/star-wars-episode-i-the-phantom-menace-oral-history
It’s a true tragedy we’ll never know the full story.