Timstuff said:

The problem is, a lot of people seem to almost be against development in the story. The rpequels are about the fall of Anakin, but many people, rather than see Anakin go from a confused but good soul to a bad one, they want him to bad before he even becomes a Sith (hence, things like removing his hesitation at killing Dooku, amongst other proposed changes). Rather than see the benevolent Republic become the corrupt and despotic Empire, they want the republic to be corrupt and broken well before Palpatine crowns himself emperor.

I hope that you're talking about Lucas and Lucasfilms, because there are MANY editors and edits that do not subscribe to making Anakin evil from the beginning. (if anything, Lucas's depiction of the character in the original films paints a far negative or evil figure than what he should've been)

As for how removing Anakin's hesitation in killing Dooku, I think you're missing the point entirely - cutting that element out does not make Anakin automatically evil, it makes him IMPULSIVE and RASH by giving in to his emotions (his anger and fear) and relying on them to overpower and kill his opponent. In ESB, Yoda states that anger, fear, agression, and hate is the path to the Dark Side, that a Jedi never uses his knowledge of the Force to attack/destroy and that once you start giving in those emotions of the Dark Side, the more and more that you begin to be controlled by them. By killing Dooku impulsively and out of anger, Anakin is stepping over the his boundaries as a Jedi and therefore, Dooku's murder could be seen as his entry into using the Dark Side (just as Luke gave in to anger in ROTJ, except Anakin succumbed to it whereas Luke realized and denied the Dark Side).