theprequelsrule said:
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.
Are you a sincere 'prequels lover' ? ;) It's OK if you are. I hate Eps. 1 and 2, but I like Episode 3--though I still have problems with how Anakin turned to the dark side.
Whether it's Anakin being given a terrible choice, or whether power corrupts him, there needed to be something very dramatic.
All I know is that I consider the prequels to be apocryphal and non-existent and I never watch them anymore. The back story that was built up by Alec Guinness playing Obi Wan Kenobi and telling Luke how the Republic lasted for a thousand generations (years?) and how his pupil Darth Vader betrayed and murdered his father is far more poignant in my mind.