I'm sure this is nothing new, but if I could make one change to Revenge of the Sith, I'd take out everything about him killing the kids and have his point of no return be him hurting Padme
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and the main thing that influences his decision to turn into darth vader and join palpatine is weighing the entire jedi order being maybe not the greatest vs Padmé's safety
the killing of the younglings is so out of pocket, you basically have to try to forget it happened if you are going to fully buy the final confrontation
Since we're just making stuff up about how someone dies, "losing the will to live" should be "she couldn't survive childbirth because he weakened her" or something like that. Effectively the same, but I want it to be more direct
I've heard it proposed that Palpatine uses his master's technique to siphon life from Padme into Anakin, providing reasons why Padme dies without apparent cause, how Anakin lives and why Sheev knows Padme is dead. It also keeps the idea that the atrocities Anakin did for Padme were what doomed her.
See, I've always thought his point of no return was in AotC when he killed the women and children which is why it's jarring to have him have 3 points of no return in RotS (if you count killing Dooku as well). I like it the most out of the prequels but his fall is crazy weird
imo the RotS and AotC child killing just have the same issue, child murder is so outside of moral sensibilities that it jars you out of a story where Anakin is meant to be a sympathetic character. But my read is that we are at least intended to believe that Anakin could have gone on to make (1/2)
different decisions after AotC. I don't think that's true of the attack on the Jedi temple. Although, Padme says that they should run away together in their final scene, so maybe that was supposed to be his last chance idk. The whole thing is a mess, I agree lol
I *guess* if you were being favourable to the movie you could read it as Anakin already being too far gone and the tragedy being that Obi-Wan and Padme love him too much to realise it but I think that's more credit than it's owed
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im one of those nerds who read then novelization
and the main thing that influences his decision to turn into darth vader and join palpatine is weighing the entire jedi order being maybe not the greatest vs Padmé's safety
and the whole crux and theme is he chooses Padmé
its camp and very dramatic but in that specific revenge of the sith space opera way that feels perfect
its a recommendation from me anyway