This is getting out of hand! Now there are two of them!
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Obi-Wan was like a brother to Anakin, but what he needed was a father. Qui-Gon was dead, and the only father figure he had left was both manipulating him and isolating him from Obi-Wan by sending Obi-Wan to Utapau after Grievous and making sure Anakin has to stay behind despite the fact that he was the hero of the Clone Wars.
Though the best foreshadowing during the prequels mustāve been this scene:
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It also didnāt help that the Jedi code is basically a satanic caricature of what happens when you take a troubled young child, sever his tie to the only safety/love they have had in their life and then tell that apparently that attachment is super evil and harmful. More to the point instead of encouraging and trusting others you repress and hold them back.
The Jedi unironically had it coming and Palpatine did nothing wrong (except wasting copious amounts of resources on Deathstar and dumb broadside imperial fleet stardestroyers when he could have just used Venetor class which was far more adaptable).
I dunno if you knew but, the person behind the screen controlling the character is.
Might be shocking news but.
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Itās roleplay, not roleplAI. At least for now.
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Ofcourse itās not !
(oh no he has me figured out. Beep boop)
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Clone Wars made the prequels so much better to be honest. In season 7 of Clone Wars we find out that
Obi-Wan knew of Anakinās and PadmĆ©ās relationship but allowed it to continue without ratting them out because PadmĆ© was a good influence on Anakin and helped quell his rage and for once in his life he was happy and well-adjusted.
He kept his secret because he believed that the Jedi Code is not the end all, just like Qui-Gon did before his death. A bit of a Jolee Bindo-ism from KOTOR where love can make you stronger and better Jedi if itās wholesome and well adjusted. Love is a very human thing and itās not inherently evil like the Jedi teach.
That and Anakinās relationship with Ahsoka and the way it grew through out the seasons was so good. The final shot of season 7 was chilling and beautiful.
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Less foreshadowing and more a sock on the nose as subtle as Huxās speech in ep7. Still a grand scene, though.
Well in hindsight you are right, but when I first saw the scene being the little kid I was, I had no idea this was the same theme as that of the Empire. I was slow. Same way it took me ages to realise āHey this Palpatineā¦ Emperor Palpatineā¦OH!ā
Roleplay isnāt real, but homophobia is.
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I quite like how they reference a lot of the events in also later comics and games. Such as the late Fallen order, where Nightsister Merrin recalls General Grievous quite hauntingly.
Also as said the 501st audio recording is just a masterpiece all in all. The narratorās tone starts off very orderly and stern, but with few sinister notes to add, such as the view they had on aliens (e.g. Wookies) or how they had begun to despise the Jedi after they had lead them into mass meatgrinders by not knowing/caring for the lives of their troops at all. Eventually the narratorās voice grows more cruel by the note all the way till the end of the recording.
Which is quite funny because even during the Empire when Vader was despised, hated and feared by the imperial officer core, the Stormtrooper core loved and practically hailed him as a pseudo-demigod because he didnāt ask any of his troops to do things he wouldnāt do himself. Anakin may have ādiedā but his leadership and leading by example remained strong.
Thereās of course the occasional really bittersweet interaction especially the clones serving under both Plo-koon and Ayla Secura recall since they genuinely cared for their troops and allowed themselves to grow attachments with them- Notice a trend here? Jedi that unsurprisingly didnāt lose their connection to the world around them are seen and viewed positively, while the rest are watched with spite (e.g. Windu & Yoda).
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Cut off and for all we knew abandoned by our superiors, our only hope was Aayla Secura, our Jedi commander. Without her iron will, none of us would have come out of that mess with our sanity, or our lives. When her death came, I hope it was quick. She earned that much.
When the 501st was finally rotated out of Felucia, Aayla Secura made a point of seeing us off personally, calling us the bravest soldiers she had ever seen. Itās a good thing we were wearing helmets because none of us could bear to look her in the eye.
What I remember about the rise of the Empire isā¦ is how quiet it was. During the waning hours of the Clone Wars, the 501st Legion was discreetly transferred back to Coruscant. It was a silent trip. We all knew what was about to happen, what we were about to do. Did we have any doubts? Any private, traitorous thoughts? Perhaps, but no one said a word. Not on the flight to Coruscant, not when Order 66 came down, and not when we marched into the Jedi Temple. Not a word.
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Iām still binging Clone Wars, it actually is massively enhancing my outlook on the events of Episode 3. Iām silently mad itās not until now Iāve been able to watch it (Never had the premium channels it aired on, and it was taken off UK Netflix years and years ago).
I never cared for clones until now. 
That show will keep on tugging your heart strings with the clones until itās over.
Iām about 1/3rd through Season 5.
I know how this ends.
It will not make it easier when it happens though.
Victory and Death
Also it makes Anakinās fall much more tragic, in Episodes I-III he just comes off as a weirdly angsty teenager having a tantrum. But in these later seasons Iām seeing him grow a dislike for the jedi and leaning more into Palpatine, whoās being the father figure he never had.
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Thereās a really cool comic where Palpatine plants the first seeds of doubt to Anakin toward the republic. When heās still a young padawan, he takes him with him to the lower levels of coruscant to showcase why his job as a chancellor is so hard and limited- Because of the corrupt politicians taking bribes and wasting republic credits in gambling and other stuff. Also to showcase him as the good guy that walks among the normal folk to see their suffering.
TLDR Anakin uses the force to make a leech of a Senator to lose a lot of money- And palpatine encourages him and telling heās always got a friend in him.
The best part of palpatineās master plan was that he didnāt even need to, in many cases, manipulate the republic in any way, he just needed to showcase the very (real) and obvious problems the republic had.
" A cultureās teachings, and most importantly, the nature of its people, achieve definition in conflict. They find themselvesā¦ or find themselves lacking. Too long did the Republic remain unchallenged. It is a stagnant beast that labors for breathā¦ and has for centuries. The Jedi Order was the heart that sustained its sicknessānow the Jedi are lost, we shall see how long the Republic can survive. "
- Kreia
Star Wars is cyclical and nothing ever really changes