skyjedi2005 said:

It is interesting Luke and Anakin pretty much being archetypal heroes who take virtually the same path in the beginning, but Lucas really botched things with clones and sith.

I'd disagree that Anakin is an archetypal hero. Unlike Luke, who continually encounters - and meets - challenges and choices, Anakin doesn't make any significant decisions about who he wants to be until the middle of Clones, which is ironically the point at which he starts channelling the dark side.

Up until that point he's just a whiny object of Jedi and Sith machinations. I can see how the 'mirrored path' might have been intended at the outset, but the problem with the final product is that Anakin's just too young - apart from the occasional glimmer of thoughtful dialogue, he acts and talks like a child, and gets treated as one by everyone around him. Hardly the stuff of legends.