I hear what you're saying about the PT but, like with the entire PT, it could have worked with better dialogue. For fun one night I rewrote the scene where Anakin kneels before Palpatine. It would have been easy to show Anakin in a raging panic over losing Padme and have it believably snowball.
For instance, as soon as Palpatine kills Windu, he gets up of course, like we see, and I have Anakin reignite his lightsaber and assume a protective stance against Palpatine, screaming at him, asking him why he did that, feeling guilty, etc. And almost like he doesn't care, Palpatine advances on Anakin, his hands up as if going to do the lightning thing, but he is actually holding out his hands to coax Anakin to listen. And walking toward Anakin, eyes upturned and searching, says...
"Padme dies in childbirth.... from wounds sustained by...a Jedi." Palpatine then looks down to Anakin, opens his arms, let's them fall.
And Anakin basically does the Luke thing "No, that's not true. That's impossible!"
"I speak the truth Anakin," says Palpatine, continuing to slowly walk toward him.
Anakin collapses in disbelief as Palpatine continues to 'search.' Palpatine says, "there is more than one of them. I cannot see..."
"No!!!!!!!!," cries Anakin, his eyes turning Sith yellow, tears, etc. He moves to kneel in front of Palpatine, frantic: "I submit myself to your teaching."
"Goooooooooood!" etc.
Anyway, you get the idea. This is isn't my exact scene by any stretch but if something like this had been done, something more pointed, Anakin killing the children, eyes yellow the whole time, would have come across as more of a weakness and a panic.
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