Originally posted by: Number20
I thought the prequels did a fair job of explaining why Vader served Palpatine for 20+ years. Palpatine was a sort of father-figure to Anakin.

I think, that after Anakin found that Palpatine couldn't help him save Padme (since she was dead) that he would have lost his alliegance to the man. She's the whole argument that the PT gives us for Anakin's change. Once that reason had gone (and so quickly), what's left to hold him to Palpatine? I just don't buy it. There needs to be something more.

"Seduced" by the dark side. It seems in RotS that he weighs his options, looks at the pros and cons, and then takes the Dark Side despite the cons. But then, once he wakes up as Vader... it doesn't make sense why he would subject himself to Palpatine. Kill him and take over, maybe. The novel suggests that Anakin was a very poor force user after the operation since he was missing so much of his body, that's why he didn't take out Palpatine. Don't know if I buy that either.

Xhonzi