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Intelligently Designed
Originally posted by aj_vader
Throughout Revenge Of The Sith Anakin is seeing in his dreams that Padme is going to die, In the same way he saw his Mother in his dreams.Its clear that Anakin loves Padme very much. But when Anakin sits in the Temple ans thinks about it he must realise that If the Jedi destroy Palpatine, then Padme will die. Also Anakin has had his trust shaken by the Jedi, but Palpatine is a very close friend and mentor to Anakin. Which is the main reason he served Palpatine and swore his allegiance to him.
Agreed.
Thats why you have the little tear, when him and Padme are "looking" at each other across the distance.
He knows that he's gonna have to save Palps, and that means (at the very least) standing against the Jedi.
Probably killing a few, if not all.
He hopes to have Palps captured and put on trial to pump him for info. (this is confirmed by Lucas in the dvd commentary), but as the fight progresses, it's obvious that this isn't going to be possible.
Even when he cuts off Mace's hand, he isn't trying to kill Mace, just trying to prevent Palps death.
After palps blasts him out the window, he realizes that he's now joined at the hip with him, and has to help implement his plans.
No other choice really, except to kill palps and lose padme.
That's the logic of it anyway and the dvd commentary helps a bit, it just wasn't made completly clear on-screen, so his turn seems rather quick.
It's why he cries later on Mustafar too, because although he's consumed with anger and feels put out by the Jedi, he really didn't want to go against them and kill all the kids.
He just let himself get screwed into that situation.