Unconvinced

Rating: 5/10 (11 June 2005)

The story just looks forced to me:

How could Anakin's marriage to Padme be a secret one if they slept on the same bed without even trying, or attempting, to hide it from the public knowledge?

Multiple Jedi masters, including his trainer Obi-wan, failed to find out what was bothering Anakin and giving him the nightmare, before Sith Lord saw through him and exploited his weakness: it just didn't hold water to me.

How Anakin eventually bowed to the Sith Lord was simply unbelievable. A proud, insubordinate, but nevertheless clever and insightful Anakin (as portrayed in previous episodes) should easily see through the lies of the Sith Lord than to fall for the dark side. Remember, he drew the sword on the Sith Lord once, and later on, seeing another master drawing sword on the dark Lord should confirm his righteous faith rather than to arouse his suspicion on the Jedi order.

How Anakin's conscience could stand killing young-lings (children in training to be Jedis) is beyond me. He was supposed to be "deceived" by the dark side, and tricked into doing evil to gain knowledge of dark side to protect his wife from dying at childbirth. But that clearly did not provide license for his conscience to permit the slaughter of innocent young-lings in the Jedi temple. And when his wife finally died, didn't he feel betrayed by the Sith Lord? What did he do about it? Nothing! He continued with the Dark side!

In short, I felt coerced to accept Anakin's acceptance of the dark rule.