The story has shades of brilliance, but it is executed so poorly.

But Palpatine corrupting and manipulating the Jedi and turning the public against them and persuading their greatest hero to change sides turning their greatest hope into defeat, is good storytelling.

Promising peace and order to a galaxy thrown into chaos, a chaos Palpatine caused because he started the Clone Wars.

Anakin makes a devil’s bargain for his wife’s life but engineer’s her fate by trying to prevent it.

The died of broken heart might be poetic, but I do agree it is stupid.

It is a warning as well of how Republics fall to audacious dictators who promise things they have no intention of delivering on and dividing the people.

Who give rousing speeches, who promise to restore a golden age and appeal to a nostalgic past that never existed.