Lol you do raise some fair points but IMHO you're irrationally hating on the PT dude. Of course from Obi Wan's perspective, Vader turned for power and glory (and that WAS part of it) so that's what he told Luke. He couldn't exactly tell Luke that Vader turned for some chick who ended up giving birth to him and his twin sister. I do agree the PT did a terrible job of selling the romance angle but I chalk that up to writing and Christiansen and Portman having zero on-screen chemistry. Properly written and cast, I think that angle could and should have worked very well but as it was, it was merely passable.
Anakin was like a kid brought up in a cult until he was old enough to question why that cult was making him do stupid shit. They planted seeds of that in AOTC and especially the excellent sequence where his mom dies. I wasn't a fan of TPM and AOTC in general but the way they tied everything up in ROTS was pretty excellent even with its flaws.
I still disagree.
The novelization of ROTS was actually far superior to the movie. It did little things the movie SHOULD have done, but didn't.
A quick example off the top of my head is the Dooku fight. Rather than Anakin just beating him, Dooku is wondering how Anakin is getting stronger through the fight. When he takes out Obi-Wan and Anakin kicks him off that bridge to the floor, there is a moment when Dooku understands Anakin was half Sith already and is using his anger. He begins taunting Anakin while losing about losing his jedi composure and Anakin starts thinking too hard to control his anger and starts losing again. At that moment, Palpatine from his chair shackled begins coaching Anakin. "Don't fear your anger Anakin. Use it." Etc, that fit Palpatine like a glove and would have made that scene way more meaningful.
Once he cut off his hands and hesitated, Palpatine orders him to kill Dooku as Chancellor and reasons Dooku is the head of the enemy army. He gives anakin what he was waiting his whole life for. permission to do something like that.
It was so much better done in the book. And that's just an opening scene. The entire book was full of better than we got on screen.
In the book. Yoda mid fight with the emperor, realizes the Emperor is stronger and he can't win. Palpatine actually kicks his ass and he has to run.
Which was way better than the fight ending with Yoda slipping and losing his grip.
If you haven't read the novel, you should. Because you will spend a lot of time going "Why the fuck didn't they put this in the movie and translate it to the screen?????"
The novel was 10x better than the movie and made the turn seem much more organic. It also emphasizes far more just how much like a father Anakin thought of Palpatine, same as he thought of Obiwan like an older Brother. Padme aside, he was actually closer to Palpatine than Obiwan. Palpatine was the only one who knew about him and Padme. Palpatine was the guy who wouldnt betray his secret love life to the jedi. Anakin was actually shocked when he realized Palpatine knew and covered for him. Palpatine thought the jedi chastity rules. Were archaic and silly, so no he wouldn't betray a friend. That's how Anakin saw it. He was put in an impossible choice between his father and brother basically.
THAT they should have translated to the screen. Mace windu now had suspicion about Palpatine and was actively trying to wedge him away from Anakin while obviously not trusting Anakin and keeping secrets from Anakin. The whole council was.
it translated 100x better in the novel because the novel was done differently
And I made the mistake of reading it first before watching the movie.
