Originally posted by: Erikstormtrooper
I was talking more about the 1-6 story line. Among other lost opportunities, the prequels could have shown what the power of the Dark Side really was.

In the 4-6 story line, the whole scenario in ROTJ works a little better. We have to imagine what the power of the Dark Side is. We dont have the Sith "rule of two", so we don't know the Emperor plans to replace Vader until the end, and this makes Vader less of a willing participant in his own demise.

Lucas bothered to change dialog on the ESB DVD so that Vader is trying to hide Luke from the Emperor. But he did nothing to change Vader's motives in ROTJ.

The more I think about this stuff, the more I get depressed.

Before the prequels, the dark side seemed to be much easier to fall to. So the emperor didn't have to work as hard, because it didn't take all that much. Get Luke to strike down Vader in anger, or something similar, and that would be it. The dark side was very potent, and very controlling.

Then we had the prequels. In that, Anakin can basically be constantly angry and self-centered, cut down an entire tribe of sandpeople in a fit of uncontrollable rage, decapitate Count Dooku in cold blood, and he's still good, still not dark side. (I'm not even counting the stuff in the Clone Wars cartoons) For him to finally become a sith, he had to take an oath and willing turn evil. The dark side seems to be very difficult to fall to in the prequels. I would think that by prequel standards, Luke could of killed Vader and the Emperor himself, with no dark side troubles.
Of course, by OT standards, Anakin would of fallen sometime during AOTC.