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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Trickstergod" data-source="post: 2276612" data-attributes="member: 10825">One thing I will say is that Anakin's fall, while I do believe it credible, gave me the sense that George Lucas was off in the background saying "And this is where you fall," like the actors were taking their cues rather than Anakin was falling to corruption while Palpatine manipulated him. I believed in the fall, but the scene itself seemed a bit artificial. For what it's worth, I think a few extra lines on Palpatine's behalf could have spelled things out directly enough for anyone - something like "You have helped killed Master Windu, Anakin. There's no turning back from this; the Jedi will kill you as surely as they would have me. There is no one to turn to but me. There is no one else who can save you now, and more importantly, your wife." Something like that would have helped seal Anakin's fall well enough, or provided satisfactory enough explanation. And as others have pointed out, there was ample enough foreshadowing beyond the original trilogy for Anakin's fall. I think back to the beginning of Sith; Anakin wants to go back and save the clone pilot and has to be reined in by Obi-Wan. Then Anakin does the same with Obi-Wan. If the roles had been reversed, and Palpatine was raising up his lightsaber to strike down Windu, then Anakin would almost assuredly have lopped off Palpatine's hand. Anakin wasn't so selfish as he appeared - just easily manipulated. Though I am curious as to how the Jedi asking Anakin to spy on Palpatine qualifies as breaching the Jedi Code. Sure, when Mace was getting ready to lop off Palpatine's head, that seemed like a violation, but spying? The Jedi are defenders of the Republic, and Palpatine would surely be a threat to it once war was over (which proved all too true). The Jedi wouldn't be very good defenders if they didn't engage in some degree of espionage.</blockquote>

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