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You can hate the PT for bad acting and bad dialogue but there is a story there. If you don't see the six episodes as one big movie, you'll never see the story that ties the two trilogies together. Now there is the obvious story of good Jedi vs. bad Sith and Anakin made the wrong choice, however, there is another story beneath the surface, but you have get over what you see as an egregious failure on behalf of Lucas. You have to let go of your hate, just like Luke tells his father.

Now I'm not some guy that gushes all over the PT. In fact, I'm old school Star Wars and I didn't really know what to think of E1 and E2 when I saw them. In fact, I didn't even bother to sit down and study them until the OT came out on DVD. Then I sat down and studied all five movies. Then after reading the Stover E3 novelization I realized what Lucas was saying. Now of course Anakin had to fall to the darkside because he was Darth Vader in the OT, but it's not because of anything he did. It's because of what the Jedi and people of the Republic did. The Jedi are corrupt and they corrupted him but the story actually goes even deeper than that.

Lucas has always used visuals to tell the story. See no one tells you that Darth Vader's ship in E4 is a long range fighter that is capable of deep space travel. You're just supposed to see it in how his ship looks different from the other TIEs. Notice Vader's ship has a larger body and has four engines instead of just two, and that's how he is able to survive the long journey.

Lucas tells the audience that the Jedi are corrupt in E3 with visuals. Notice in E1 and E2 that the floor of the Jedi Council chamber is spotless but in E3 it's filthy. So what's the deal here? Do you think the Jedi fired the cleaning crew or is Lucas using symbolism? If they fired the cleaning crew, then how come the rest of the Jedi Temple is spotless?

Anakin was given to the people to bring balance to the Force and he was going to do it the easy way or the hard way. The people were going to be taught a lesson about being indifferent to the suffering of others, and that lesson was called the Empire, because Anakin was a vessel created by something greater than the mortals of Star Wars. The episodes don't come out and say what is guiding these mortal characters to their destinies but hints are dropped here and there that these characters are being guided by something greater than themsleves. Is it the Force? Is it gods? I don't know, but it's something, and it helped guide Anakin to the darkside so the Jedi and people would be taught a lesson about being indifferent to the suffering of others like children born into bondage.

This is the piece of dialogue that was planted in E6 over twenty years ago to show that the Force is balanced.

"I have felt him my master."
"Strange that I have not."