So what happens in AOTC? He skips ten years of character development and makes him the exact opposite of everything he did with Jake Lloyd in TPM. Now he is a prick, he is a whiner, and better yet, a stalker in someways. He is NOTHING like the Jake Lloyd character, and what happens is you start hating the guy. I equate Hayden in AOTC to Barry Bonds in baseball or Terrel Owens in Football, great players who are the best at what they do, but it is so hard to root for them cause they are the biggest doucebags in the world. And when something bad happens to them you are glad they are getting it.
Anakin should have been just as nice as Jake Lloyd character in TPM until his mother dies, and that is when he should have started going wacky, so there would be an explanation as to why he becomes unstable. He should have been the personality of the trilogy, meaning he should have acted like the average person on the street like you and I cause he wasn't trained as a jedi at a young age. He shouldn't have been Han Solo, but he could have been LIKE him being this care free guy who had alittle spark in his personality, and that doesn't jive well with the staunch jedi.
Anakin outgoing personality should have contrasted with the staunch jedi personality, and that would be the whole tragedy of it all, he never fit in from day one cause he grew up for 10 years as this normal boy. Fuck the whole slave plot, fuck the whole virgin birth, just the fact that this kid was playing with his friends for 10 years like every normal kid would contrast every jedi that was found at birth. Lucas should have showed how annoyed they got at his personality, his daring style, but they would not relieve him as a jedi cause this kid was special, and they would bend the rules for him as much as they could.
I never liked Anakin after TPM, and that goes a long way to caring about his fate when the shit hits the fan. Did Lucas do this on purpose? Did he want him unlikeable because he becomes Darth Vader? Does Lucas even want you to care about this character? I would love if someone could find a quote of him explaining Anakins likeableness and how he feels the audience should react to him. I honestly thought he was a prick, and couldn't give a rats ass about him as he was burning up, for me that is the biggest failure of the PT.