TheoOdo said:

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Good post. I agree with most (if not all) of what you wrote.

Palpatine's appeal to Anakin/Vader has to be something that Vader can dedicate his life to. He chooses to be Vader every morning when he gets out of bed. If it was based on a fleeting emotion, he would have lived a very different life. The attorcities of the Clone Wars leading the galaxy at large, and Anakin personally down a path of accepting the Empire as a neccessary evil seems to be a very important part of a PT story working. Too bad a war fought by robots and clones would never generate the kind of response for that to work. *shrug*