*sitting straight up in bed* anakin's descent into the dark side could have been much more believable and tragic had they cared to show how being a slave affected him and his perception of himself, authority figures, and the republic as a whole. the foundation was there to tell a truly heart wrenching story of a boy who once freed from slavery was forbidden from ever seeing his mother and joined an order which once again made him subservient to others (and even having to refer to them as master) and slowly learned that while the jedi were "peacekeepers", that did not necessarily mean they always supported justice and did not make efforts to stop slavery in the galaxy. and so as he grew to associate the jedi order as merely an extension of his subjugation, when he is told of the sith order (not about immortality to try to save padme) and how freedom and self determination are core pieces of their identity he grew curious of their practices and would slowly become seduced to the dark side with the promise of true power. all of this combined with the unhealthy way he views the individual vs the state (believing that palpatine should have More power and that everyone should give up their rights so that order can overtake the chaos of individuality) and how he views tuskens as being animals, paints a horrifying picture of a young man who having been denied the ability to choose his own destiny he seeks to control others because he internalized that the "truly" free people are the ones who have power and had influence and status, with others who were in some way subservient to them. his obsession with becoming a knight on the council a manifestation of his need for control and once denied to him (in addition to other minor or major transgressions against him by the jedi) he became more vulnerable to palpatine's influence and eventually gave himself over to the darkside entirely, becoming darth vader: the most powerful sith in the galaxy, feared and obeyed by everyone he meets.