ROTS - Quest for Immortality

Rating: 8/10 (29 May 2005)

I think that many people miss the point of Return of the Sith. OK after 28 years we felt a bit let down that the film wasn't meatier, but the underlying story is very powerful. Anakin turns dark in his quest for the secret to immortality. He wants to save Padme from dying. He wants to cure the world from death and cant see him doing this through the light side of the force. He is tricked and Palpatine plays on his raw and immature emotions, stemming from his mothers death, Very Freudian in my opinion.
In the original films the good Jedi do find a way of becoming immortal. At the end of RotJ Obi Wan, Yoda and Anakin return as the blue galley people. At the end of RoTS Yoda says there is further training from Qui Gonn so the secret of immortality through the force has been revealed.
I think people are looking at the film from a very shallow position. It was great and don't let anybody tell you otherwise.