Come on, if Anakin had been as rash as he were in the last two you might have gone with the kill everything angle, but no, he’s actually painted as grown up, sensible, wise and cautious (presumably to make his fall that much harder). Then suddenly he’s killing kids because he wants to learn how to save his girl. He’s also told it’ll take time to figure out how to learn this new stop people from dying trick, how long? She’s about to drop!!

Hmm end the war NOW and let your wife die from natural causes or start a new war NOW, kill some children go against everything you and your wife stand for, kill all your friends and countless other innocents even though your wife will most likely die giving birth before you learn how to stop it. Maybe Anakin is powerful, but boy oh boy is he the dumbest character ever written.

Put simply if Palpatine needed Anakin to go berzerkoid he could simply have killed Padame and thus the kids and blamed it on the Jedi order (he is a sith lord). But then where would Luke come from, maybe Sidious could pretend she’s dead. But no, Anakin would feel her through the force, okay so how about she’s kidnapped and taken far away, blame it on the Jedi’s etc and BAM you got someone who needs to be as powerful as Vader and need to kill all Jedi to find her. But then that would require some good writing.

Why should anyone have had to have seen the Clone Wars cartoons for Episode III to make sense? I have seen a few of the cartoons, just not the last one. And if it was just his chest plate was tight, why couldn’t he simply pull it open?

As for Anakin not being strong enough, is it not Sidious himself who says Anakin will become more powerful than him or Yoda? And he’s taken the shortcut to that power in choosing the Dark Side. Besides, Anakin isn’t fighting alone, he has plenty of clone trooper with him.

People will do almost anything for love, I don’t doubt it, but I’d expect a little more fighting against what he has been trained to do all his life. Killing friends and children takes some seriously cold-hearted actions, Anakin does it without a worry, not realistic in any universe. My version at least gives him a trigger point, a reason for the sudden shift in outook.