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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 2281005" data-attributes="member: 99">After JD's crosspost from RPG.net, this seems as good a place as any to put forth an observation of mine (though I'm sure I'm not the only person to make it):Anakin makes for a sympathetic villian because the viewer can in many ways identify with his dilemma.  He is afraid about things (like what is happening to his mother) has a deep love for someone close to him (his wife) and gets angry when he is slighted by those whose esteem he craves.  He is one of the only people who truly acts "human".  The Sith are undeniably evil but the Jedi by contrast aspire to an emotional emptiness that is difficult to identify with too.I suppose that to their credit, the Jedi Council said that Anakin was too old to start the training but then they backed off on that after Qui-Gon died (oddly, this appears to be an almost emotional decision).  But Anakin had clearly formed attachments that the other Jedi could not empathize with.  I think that if they understood the level of that attachment then they would have at least sent someone to Tatooine to get his mother out of slavery so that Anakin could quit worrying about her and focus on his training.If they had done so then it seems very unlikely that he would have turned to the Dark Side and thus it lends credence to the idea that divorcing themselves from any emotions was at least part of the Jedi's problem.</blockquote>