Thread:Mesektet/@comment-3581997-20160615160106/@comment-3581997-20170112190745

First of all officially, Padmae died of a broken heart. So bad writing killed his wife. Second of all the blowing of a planet was more Palpatine and Vader just went along with it. I honestly thought the acting was fine, I have seen both actors of Anakin in other movies and they are both okay, not great but much better, I think their performance in Star Wars was mostly due to receiving bad instruction from Lucas. But over-all I would agree with your point, murdering younglings is sort of an out of no-where turn. As in I could not even see New Hope Vader so causally doing so. It is a kick-the-dog moment that seemed to be inserted in there just for the audience's sake to erode any sympathy. The films were working on a time-limit so in 3 films Anakin Skywalker needs to get from lost little kid to space-tyrant. The time skip could have helped but Attack of the Clones had some really subpar writing, virtually no character development happened and so when they got to the last film they sort of had to blow their entire narrative to make things make sense.

As for the Jedi being sticklers for rules in the prequels. Keep in mind even in Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, Yoda and Obiwan tell Luke to let his friends die, that he must be willing to let go of their lives to preserve their fight and must train to be able to defeat Vader. Luke rejects them and they both seem let down by him. Expanding on this we later see that when he returns they Are trying to get him to think like a Jedi but that there is no longer time to continue his training. But Luke confronting his father and reaching out to him is something that honestly never occurred to the two old guys. Overall this tells us that the Jedi are so highly concerned with destiny they that they will either easily get pre-occupied with it or outright ignore the signs of potential dangers.

Think about it; These robed jerk-offs were so busy trying to figure out how to train Anakin because some big dumb destiny said they had to, that no one figured that maybe giving a moody teenager with a bunch of anger and angst issues how to be a psychic space general might be a bad idea or how they were so concerned with trying to find out who the Sith Lord was that they didn't even think that the guy who was walking around directly having a hand in and benefiting from everying bad that was happening and acting like a Sith Lord, might be the Sith Lord.