The Episode III spoiler-filled reviews and impressions thread

[A Black Falcon]

I'm transforming!

Would TC really be better off with you like that? :)

Yeah, I see where you are going with that. I am still pretty sure he would have become some other kind of punk though. He may have just ended up shunning both the light AND the dark. Where does that put a force adept?

Maybe not a Jedi, yeah (he might eventually have gotten kicked out)... but he wouldn't have become a Sith, and wouldn't have killed him. Remember, until the events of TPM the Jedi thought that the Sith died out hundreds of years earlier (800 years? Or was it several thousand? I'm not sure... either way, a long time earlier.)... the ability to hide themselves was the most important thing to the Sith in the interim, obviously. Palpatine being really good at it shouldn't be surprising. Where he differs from past Sith lords, obviously, was the ability to actually follow up on what the Sith dreamed to do and actually do it... and to do it he needed a strong second, and if Anakin is something, he's that.

Of course, the movie leaves you with some questions... as you may remember, Anakin was supposedly created by the Force ("no father", remember?)... I thought that Palpatine's story about the Sith lord who could create life was interesting, kind of a parallel to the story of how Anakin came to be... but what that means, I don't really know. :)