i had the same thoughts with you as to how things should happen, atleast to make sense, but as we know how, from how aotc ends, theres no way for that to happen, and unless episode III is 4 hours long, we are not going to see anakin hunt down the jedi knights. i think epIII will probably end with anakin joining palpatine and just STARTING down the dark path. then in episode IV, we find out when obiwan tells luke that anakin killed all the jedi. which really stinks, but the way lucas wrote the prequels, theres no other way for it to happen. phantom menace was a complete waste of a movie. AOTC should have been episode I, then the next episode should be anakins turn, and the final should be him as vader hunting down the jedi and ending with the birth of the skywalker twins, ben going to tatooine, and yoda fleeing to dagobah and having that all out force war with the dark jedi and killing him in the cave where luke discovered the dark side in ESB, but lucas wanted a stinking podrace with anakin as a little boy, so that screwed everything up.