hitfan said:

Filthy Pierre said:

The greatest flaw was starting at the wrong point in the story.

Should of started with Anakin as a Jedi already already trained by Obi and Yoda.

As said in one of the posts it should of started with Episode 3 and have that as Episode 1.

The Star Wars audience could never, ever identify with a 10 year old Anakin Skywalker. Small kids? Probably. But if I was a little kid watching TPM for the first time, I wouldn't have liked Anakin all that much either.

Your proposal for a different starting point is an interesting one. I probably wouldn't have introduced Anakin Skywalker till Episode 2 when he was in his late teens, early 20s. Obviously, he needs a love interest of sorts to be the mother of Luke and Leia.

But there definitely needs to be stronger motivation for Anakin to turn to the dark side. Perhaps he turns because he is given such a terrible choice where the alternative (the right thing to do) might even have other negative consequences--and not just a possibility that "Padme might die" because of some vague nightmare. Perhaps Anakin has to use the dark side to overcome such a powerful and overwhelming enemy that we can somewhat understand where he is coming from.

I'm no writer or anything like that, but a competent screenwriter could flesh out something that would be extremely tragic.

I always pictured the fall of Anakin to be something very basic; power corrupts and abolsute unlimited power corrupts abolsutely unlimitedly (is that a word?). So Anakin was a great Jedi who fell in love with himself, his prestige etc., and caused him to commit more and more heinous acts to preserve these things.