Originally posted by: CO
Anakins turn should have been a plot point, not THE main point of the PT, as that would give more time for the Clone Wars, the birth of the Rebellion, the Force Ghost, etc. Instead you have this PT about the rise/fall of Anakin that is suppose to shoehorn in with redemption of Anakin now in 4-6, and it just doesn't work, cause they literally look like TWO different sets of movies, and the OT was never the redemption of Darth Vader, that was just a plot point in ROTJ!
Anakins turn should have been a plot point, not THE main point of the PT, as that would give more time for the Clone Wars, the birth of the Rebellion, the Force Ghost, etc. Instead you have this PT about the rise/fall of Anakin that is suppose to shoehorn in with redemption of Anakin now in 4-6, and it just doesn't work, cause they literally look like TWO different sets of movies, and the OT was never the redemption of Darth Vader, that was just a plot point in ROTJ!
I can see what you're saying, but I have to disagree that the PT suffers from "too much focus" on Anakin's turn to the Dark Side. The PT seems to concern itself mostly (and I will concede that this it does well) with the political backstory of the Empire and how the Emperor pulled the wool over everyone's eyes and convinced them to hand over their Republic without so much as a whimper. I think that was well done, yet wasn't my biggest interest in the trilogy. The one thing I really wanted was a serious, believable, tragedy. The political machinations of Palpatine received far more screen time than the fall.
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