Understanding Your Own Story

Today's blog entry is in the form of an open letter to George Lucas, about the most important, and elementary mistake he made in Episode III.

Dear Mr. Lucas,

I know things must be pretty exciting right now. You've set a handful of box office records with you latest installment of the much-beloved STAR WARS franchise. The critics are being very generous, and exercising enormous amounts of self-control in overlooking an avalanche of poor choices, bad acting, contradictions, and just bad storytelling. Things are looking pretty good.
So here's some terrible truth.
While I was quite prepared for most of the train wreck, one thing in particular really surprised me. You *quite obviously* don't understand your own story. Even a little bit.
I paid about thirty dollars spaced out over six years really just to see roughly fifteen minutes worth of story at the end of Episode III. For me, it was all about the transformation of Anakin into Vader.
That transformation was so important, so vital to the series because Vader's redemption is Luke's greatest achievement in JEDI. Kenobi and even Yoda can't tell that there's any good in Vader. Only Luke has enough faith (a word you should probably revisit, rather than midiclorians) to bring back his father.

SO, Anakin becomes Vader by fully embracing the dark side. This much we've been explained in your better movies (well, for what little you had to do with the good ones). The creation of Vader symbolizes the death of Anakin, his selflessness and the last of the good in him. The "birth" of Vader is therefore the rising of an uncaring, evil machine of the dark side. It's the rise of a such a fearful figure of imposing doom, it terrified me as a kid.
So the first words out of Vader's mouth are the continued whinings about Padame. What an un-fucking-believably terrible, obvious mistake.
Naturally, he's supposed to whine about Padame all along. His last words as a burnt husk of a weeble-wobble should have been about her.

However, and this is a big however, once he's in that suit, once he's transformed into that towering figure of fear personified, it was true character assassination to have him still care, and still whine.
If the character of Anakin wasn't ready to let go of everything and turn evil, then he shouldn't have been in that suit.

And since you couldn't see that, it's become crystal clear to the fans that DO understand your mythology that you sir, do not.