10 Reasons You’re Wrong About The Star Wars Prequels

6. There's A Hint Of Moral Ambiguity

"Only a Sith deals in absolutes." Obi-Wan's final line to Anakin before entering their confrontation on lava planet Mustafar seems like one of the worst lines of dialogue in the whole saga. But couple it with Anakin's later "from my point of view the Jedi are evil" and it appears that Lucas is aiming for something more complex than it initially seems.

There's always been a moral balance with the Jedi - in Empire Luke has to choose between saving his friends and completing his training, while Clones makes it clear they're hiding their inability to see the future for their own sake - and in the last film it gets weighed on a bit more. Through the course of Episode III the Jedi manipulate Anakin to spy on Palpatine and although the Chancellor is feeding many lies to his future apprentice, he is skirting very close to the truth in saying the Jedi will attempt to take over. All pretty questionable stuff. From a certain point of view

The film is, after all, called Revenge Of The Sith, implying there's some form of justification to the diabolical events on show. It's not all out villanising of the Jedi, but it does try to show there's some rationale to the Sith plight. It was out of Lucas' creative reach to fully make this comparison, but that it's there being attempted in the film speaks volumes.