TMBTM said:
brash_stryker said:
TheBoost said:
That's the whole point. The Dark Side twists and corrupts. There is no 'but I did it for such and such a good reason.' The Dark Side is an insidious cancer.

Exactly. Which is why Anakin giving rational reasons for turning to the dark side does not work.

Well, Yoda always said that fear leads to the dark side. Having fear of something (like loosing someone) is a rational reason that can lead someone to the dark side. The thing is that it cannot be the only reason, indeed. Because sometimes we all do bad things for good reasons without being bad persons in our heart. Anakin is doing bad things for good reasons, but we don't actualy really see when and why he became corrupted by the dark side. The movie needs scenes where Anakin learn more and more dark side powers that makes him feel unvulnerable and makes him loose his mind.

Well the problem with this is you're rationalising it with a prequel in-universe explanation. Any justification should be drawn from the OT in my opinion, as this is the Star Wars we know and love, before George took a crap on the franchise. In-universe reasoning aside, his turn is never convincing as a FILM. The fall from grace we were promised in the OT never happened. Anakin was a dick when he was meant to be "good" and when he turned we never got a sense he was any more evil than he was before, but rather, making conscious decisions to commit these atrocities to save his wife, rather than WANTING to do them.

EDIT: Just realised you agreed with what I said about the film never giving us a sense of him getting corrupted. Yeah more scenes (either side of him pledging allegiance to palpatine) could help, but whether this would be doable, I remain skeptical.