Good points. Episode II seems to have the material it needs to be transformed robotic to emotional -- it was clearly meant to be an emotional story. Dialogue, editing, performance, music-- a whole list of things undermine what was a pretty good idea.
I think the story was supposed to be: Anakin grows in power, but emotionally feels drawn back to his mother-- in fact he feels her suffering. But as a Jedi, he's restrained from acting on these feelings and it eats him up worse than any Jedi before because he KNOWS he's right. He gets thrown together with the girl of his dreams and she tips the scales-- he faces too much temptation to remain a chaste Jedi. He reaches out to her and then dashes off to get his mom. But because he is too late, his mother dies in his arms and his Jedi faith is shattered. He resents his master for making mom die-- then he finds out his master is in trouble. He doesn't even want to go save the guy -- but the girl makes him. They end up in a deadly trap, but it's the right thing to do. Then he loses the girl and wants to throw it all away for her-- until he remembers that she wouldn't do that or want that. He stays the course...
But then comes the one beat that I don't understand yet and that needs to be brought into the fold.
Why does he rush in to attack Dukoo? It doesn't come from anything we've seen (except a general lack of discipline). It nearly costs him everything and it throws the whole story off.
Does he still rush in? I don't think so-- but even so this part of the story lacks weight when it comes to Anakin. What is he demonstrating/learning/or being challenged by here? Any ideas?
I think there's something important about solving this. Making the climax feel important to the Anakin story would be incredible. Right now, the story for him kind of ends when he decides to leave Padme and face his duty.