“anakin fell for power and pride, not to save padmé”
let’s ignore everything else (because force knows this post won’t exist if you hadn’t) and talk about anakin’s first action after palpatine reveals himself as sith lord: he reports it to the jedi council, then waits in the council room.
if he turned for power and pride, why did he do this?
and then he makes the decision that he cannot let palpatine be killed if he was the only means of saving padmé. he intervenes in the mace-palpatine duel where palpatine pretends to be weak and helpless, telling anakin that “only through me can you achieve the power to save your wife”. when anakin tries to convince mace about arresting and not killing palpatine and mace still goes ahead, anakin stops him by cutting off his arm (standard jedi practice to ‘disarm’ an aggressor). palpatine then takes that opportunity to kill mace—he was acting weak to dupe anakin—which brings anakin into shock, prompting him to utter in horror, “what have I done?”
palpatine brings anakin to a virtual point of no return. anakin cannot fight or kill this sith because he is the only way to save padmé so, he accepts him—and the darkside—as a means to an end.
and now anakin makes a faustian bargain with the devil: “I will do whatever you ask. Just help me save Padmé’s life. I cannot live without her.”
just because you cannot or do not want to understand the myth and tragedy of anakin skywalker’s fall, it doesn’t mean you get to make false claims about canon.
lucas isn’t subtle in his story-telling. anakin turning to save padmé and then losing her because he turned is the gist of the RotS movie!
