In my opinion, Anakin's turn to the darkside wasn't absolutely terrible, it could have been worse, but we were expecting a lot more. There's really no feasible logic why Anakin turns to the darkside. His reasons are elementary and that is putting it generously. Why couldn't Anakin see that Palpatine was manipulating him? I was always hoping Anakin's turn to the darkside would be a much more complicated and convincing process.

I mean, out of all the reasons Anakin could have turned to the darkside, Lucas chooses the easiest and most cliche. Saving his wife from death which Palpatine was fabricating in his mind? In how many millenniums of stories told by man has plot points like that been used to justify anger? Getting pissed off at the jedi because they won't let him be a master, whining about it like a little child?

Before the prequels, I imagined Anakin Skywalker as being a smart, strong, mature man with a hint of rebellion and immaturity in him. But what comes off on screen is just unconvincing and amateur. Lucas makes the darkside a pathological on and off switch in one's mind that makes you go from normal to going on killing sprees in a heartbeat for no good reason. I always thought of the darkside as a more subtle thing that doesn't make you pure evil for no reason. Darth Vader in the OT never occurred to me as an out of control man who would be suckered into killing anyone over premonitions of his wife dying and lies. He struck me as a very complicated man with many shades of anger, guilt, and resistance on good inside of him all though the OT.

Padme's death was something that I thought would be partially Anakin's fault as well as the jedi's and Palpatine probably should have not been involved in it. Why would Anakin be loyal to him if he was pulling the strings on Padme's death?

Episode III makes him out like a man with no conscience. Giving him the orange eyes was kind of cool, but it makes him out like a pure evil man. Anakin should never have been seen as a pure evil man. The orange eyes looks cool on Palpatine, but I thought the orange eyes should have remained a characteristic unique to him, just like shooting lightning bolts from his hands. No one else should have had that characteristic, seeing other characters have that characteristic just cheapened his image.

On a unrelated subject, today I saw Back to the Future in a theater! They were showing the movie in limited release at AMC theaters around the USA today and this past Saturday.

http://www.bttf.com/see-back-to-the-future-in-theaters-october-23--25-and-get-an-exclusive-discount-on-bttfcom-products.php

http://www.amctheatres.com/bttf/