Originally posted by: miker71
I actually think Anakin's journey to the dark side was "okay". His naïveté exploited by Palpatine who was obviously the wiser. His impatience with bureaucracy etc. Some of the implementation of that arc was a bit lame (sith eyes and "noooooooo", WTF?!), but the arc itself I thought stood up pretty well.

I never had a problem with the setup in TPM/AOTC of how Anakin was going to fall, and I didn't think at first that a dream was a bad idea for his eventual turn. The problem is all ROTS, and how Anakin just leaps to the darkside within seconds, as most people in the theater were like, "That was it?"

He has the dream at the starting of the movie and is looking for answers, then Palps tells him he can save people from dying to lure Anakin to his side. That was a pretty good setup in the first half hour. Then the whole thing falls apart when Anakin doesn't even question him about this trick, let alone this is the guy who has been lying to the galaxy for the past 10 years! Then he turns within seconds after killing Mace, and doesn't even question why he is killing kids 5 minutes later? It didn't make Anakin naive, it made him just come off as stupid, and in a movie, the viewer has to put himself in that persons shoes and say, "What would I do in that situation?" I know I would atleast ask Palpatine, "How does one accomplish this trick?" The ROTS Novel does a much better job of handling Anakins turn, as it is much longer then what is shown in the movie, and he does question Yoda, himself, and even Palpatine, but as usual in the PT, it wasn't the story that bothered me, it was the execution, and the turn is the key to the whole PT, and I was a huge defender of the PT after TPM/AOTC cause I thought they were setting things up great, and then once I saw ROTS and laughed at the whole turn scene, the whole trilogy fell apart for me.

Remember Vader says to Luke in ROTJ, "You don't know the power of the darkside, I must obey my master!" I always thought that meant something big in the grand sceme of the PT as maybe Palps electrocuted Vader when he disobeyed him, but again it is another great line from the OT that means nothing in the PT. Vader didn't obey his master because of the darkside, he just used him to learn the trick of saving his wife, and then after his wife dies, why would he still obey him?