Easterhay said:

imperialscum said:

Easterhay said:
And wasn't the point of the prequels to show that the Jedi are not superhuman?

The main point of the prequels was to show how a good person (Anakin) turned bad.

In reality it showed how Anakin was an extremely annoying unlikable jerk. See my signature for some additional info.

Yes, we've all seen your signature. Hoorah for you.

Nevertheless, it's only that sixteen years between films were you've decided to picture Anakin as the way you want him to be. There's nothing in the OT to suggest he was beyond reproach apart from Obi-wan, an old man who was telling it how he saw it and had a hidden agenda anyway - why would he tell Luke his father was an arse if he wanted Luke to honour his death and kill the man apparently responsible?

You have completely missed the point I was making. It is completely irrelevant if there is enough evidence in OT to support that Anakin was a good person. It was up to Lucas how to make him in PT.

However the point is that Lucas explicitly stated PT was a story about a good guy turning bad. This means his goal was making Anakin a good person. Yet the end result is that Anakin is a complete jerk. An apparent difference between what was supposed to be and the reality.

Now you can go back to my initial reply post and figure out what I was telling you.