What makes Anakin turn to the Dark Side?

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yup.

Originally posted by yerssot
thanks for lightening the mood lyn 🙂 *hugs*

Your welcome. 😊 *hugs back*

We also need to consider the small fact that, whilst the Jedi where aware of the prophecy of the chosen one, the sith were totally ignorant of it. For did not the Emperor Himself suggest that the Son of Skywalker be destroyed. It took a former Jedi (Vader) to remind His Excellency, Lord Sidious that Luke would make an excellent ally to the sith.
Balance here? Clearly so.

erm... the prophecy is about Anakin not about luke

Indeed, indeed, and the point is, it was Anakin/Vader who instigated the balancing factor with Luke as the catalyst to what became a swift chain of events. Obi Wan very probably foresaw this, hence his decision to hide Luke from Anakin, knowing full well that they would meet later, Anakin could fulfill his prophesy and Luke would would complete the circle that the sith, inadvertently, had started.

Darth Sidious/Emperour Palpatine seemed to have been totally oblivious to all of this but then the Sith where unmindful of the "Living Force", they simply wished to tap into it's inherent power, not learn from it's ability to guide and teach.

Whilst the Jedi allowed themselves to be nutured and guided by the Force, the Sith took it's power to try to feed power. They cared not about the continuance of the Force, nor little about knowledge of the Force.

Perhaps all along, the Force itself ensured fulfillment of the prophecy. Perhaps the demise of Vader/Anakin and Sidious/Palpatine was simply...........the Will of the Force.

Immediate power. Staying with the Jedi would have made him powerful but it would have taken too long.

or you could just quote OB1, RobBo 😉:

"The emperor knew as I did, that if Vader had any offspring, they would form a treat to him ... "

I love that line...😊

and I thought it would be
"Some day, I will be the most powerful Jedi ever!!" or
"I truly, deeply, love you... and before we die I want you to know." or even
"From the moment I met you, all those years ago, not a moment has passed that I haven't thought about you." 😛

How about this? Palpatine tries to convince Anakin that the Jedi are corrupt and they could have saved his mother. The Jedi discover Palpatine's Sith ways and attack him. Anakin, confused as ever sides with Palpatine to defeat the Jedi. This is what I have concluded from the various hints that Lucas has dropped in the commentary of the two DVD's.

I would agree with the good/bad balance agreement, but Lucas clearly says that the Dark Side is clouding the Force. Therefore the force cannot be in balance until the Sith are defeated.

Originally posted by yerssot
and I thought it would be
"Some day, I will be the most powerful Jedi ever!!" or
"I truly, deeply, love you... and before we die I want you to know." or even
"From the moment I met you, all those years ago, not a moment has passed that I haven't thought about you." 😛

You know me too well Yerssot...😊
Those lines rock too of course!! 😉 😛 💃

Originally posted by The One Part 2
How about this? Palpatine tries to convince Anakin that the Jedi are corrupt and they could have saved his mother. The Jedi discover Palpatine's Sith ways and attack him. Anakin, confused as ever sides with Palpatine to defeat the Jedi. This is what I have concluded from the various hints that Lucas has dropped in the commentary of the two DVD's.

That's what I rekcon too. Palpatine manipulating things to turn Anakin against the Jedi, against Obi-Wan.

Palpatine will work on Anakin to made it a Sith Lord by manipulate him well. Playing with his feelings at will. Anakin will also see that the Dark Side is well beyond the light side in term of tool of destruction.

I agree with The One Part 2 it makes sense.
I dont know about anybody else but i want to see Anakin fall to the darkside by trying to do something good but he fails so he gets mad and turns to the darkside. Then Plapatine tells him if he was on the darkside he wouldnt of failed.

Interesting. I'd like to see some link to his line in Clones...
"I'll even be able to stop people from dying..."

Maybe, like what you said jm10, he tries to do something good, perhaps healing someone, perhaps Padmé. He fails, or whatever and gets angry and falls to the darkside in an effort to become more powerful in order to save her. Just a thought.

funny you say that lyn, it reminds me of the star wars republic comic I recently got (don't know the number), anakin tried to massage someones heart with the force

I think that booth anakin and Dooku both joined the darkside with the best of intentions.

The Emperor will lie,and corrupt Anakin someway

The line about him draining the good in Anakin in ROTJ,has lead me to believie this

plus, you've gotta admit, Mace has been kind of a dick to him