How did Anakin's turn start in Phantom Menace?
Also, there's a reason that the prequels overall have poor reviews.
With the prequels, George Lucas just went with the flow and often made sh!t up. It was a passion project for him.
Prequels were outlined very well, you kind of described the OG moreso - because he thought he would never get more than one movie he changed Episode IV (then just Star Wars). When he made Empire he thought he would do 9 movies so he gave it a lot of breathing room. He got burned out after and decided to end it all with VI so he quickly turned Leia into Luke's sister and threw in a second Death Star and the Emperor.
Prequels were the opposite, again it's all there if you watch the Episode I docs - which parts of the movies do you feel are random and show that he was making shyt up on the fly?
I don't care about reviews, if I did Nas and Cube etc wouldn't be my GOATS either. On a HipHop board we shouldn't care about reviews. The fact that Disney is pivoting so hard towards the prequels now says way more...
The set ups for Anakin's turn:
- Born into slavery: low self-worth and used to servitude.
- Has to leave his mother behind; his fear for is spoken about by the Masters and he'll never get over that plus the guilt of leaving her. shyt the Jedi flat out reject him for it at first.
- Death of Qui-Gon; QGJ was probably the right Jedi to train Anakin. Obi-Wan was too inexperienced and initially only does it out of his own guilt/promise to his master, he even says so ("I gave Qui-Gon my word").
- He meets Palpatine who will start grooming him from this point on ("we will watch your career with great interest ").
All of this will come back in the next episodes to further his downfall (and in the OG to set up his Return of the Jedi-Anakin).