SilverKey said:
I'm sorry, but I disagree with that, brash_stryker. I actually think Anakin's issues with attachment is one of the few things that works very well in the PT. It's a thread that runs through all the three movies: he leaves his mother in TPM, is too late to save her in AOTC, and in ROTS, his one attachment has become such an obsession he turns to the Dark Side over it. It's actually pretty character defining.
It's not the reasoning that bothers me, so much as the way it's portrayed. You never actually get a sense that he's been turned. More like made a calculated decision, which to me, was not at all what I imagined turning to the dark side to be about. To me, it's a slow and gradual process of seduction, which yes, can include empty promises of saving the ones you love, but as it is now, it is the ONLY reason he turns, and it just isn't convincing.
This is why I think emphasising his distrust of the jedi/lust for power throughout the film, and de-emphasising the need to save padme needs to be done. Maybe not completely, as that was perhaps a little extreme of me, but definitely not as EXPLAIN TO THE AUDIENCE as it is now. For example, we could just have padme's death dream, but he doesn't mention it, and then palpatine's mention at the opera of a sith who could stop people from dying. That's all the audience needs to make the connection. Having Anakin explain his reasons for turning is stupid, and is just another example of Lucas' contempt for an audience he thinks are too stupid to connect dots themselves.
In the scene with anakin alone in the jedi council chamber, I really think there needs to be some fast paced sound editing, of the echoing voices of his peers criticising him/being dishonest, as well as palpatine's promises etc, which could gradually get faster and faster, culminating in a crescendo of noise, conveying his torment. Perhaps with Anakin screaming. This is when Ben Danger's idea of an anonymous Vader from then on in the film could come into play.
