Re: Kathleen Kennedy to step down from Lucasfilm?
Really? Then how do you explain him murdering his wife? There more involved here. The fact is, the Force controls people, it has a will. Both the Dark Side and the Light Side. I couldn't tell you how it all works but it does. It's more then just personal choices and emotions at work. There is something far greater.
People kill out of anger all the time. Daily pretty much - has nothing to do with the dark side.
It came down to Anakin having qualms over whether or not to interfere (let alone kill) Mace who had taken down Palpatine (to anakin's view anyhow). Palp told anakin if he didn't save him, that he wouldn't be able to save padme, so he whack off mace's arms, but did not kill him. Palp killed him leaving anakin in a stunned what did i just do mode. Then Palp says follow me and we'll save padme. He does, calls him vader, and says go kill a bunch of kids (and others) in the temple. He just does it. In the space of 60 seconds he goes from conflicted over stopping Mace to OK with slaughtering a ton of kids.
Just no.
NO ONE goes that evil that fast. It just doesn't happen. Anywhere. Period. He wasn't evil before that, He had leanings, and spells, but was under control. That is just total loss of will and control and brain function simultaneously.
Keep in mind, they driving force for this in the prequels was his fear of losing padme. Due to a dream, force vision, whatever. It wasn't imminent. I can see launching a missile into the academy which kills loads of people, if there's literally a knife at her throat in a 'do it or she dies right now' scenario. There's plenty of time for him to realize he's gone way off base and stop, yet he proceeds full bore. Seeing as he's been taught since the age of 10 or so, he's had 8ish years or more of time for them to drive into his head that force visions ARE NOT dead on accurate. It's a possible future, not 'the' future no matter what. They can be wrong.
The flip side is that maybe he was that far gone and we never saw it. That falls into the sloppy writing/execution department. It's very easy to ruin an excellent story with shoddy execution. I've not heard anyone say that the story of the prequels was wrong or horrible. That's reserved for a single flick for the most part. They don't like aspects (jar jar) and the execution of it. The execution gives the look of shoddy writing or it could have literally been shoddy writing. The one thing it wasn't: a large number of people simply missing it.
If you can't admit these things have their faults, there's not really a discussion.
I don't have a huge problem with the prequels and I was fine with VII. TLJ, on the other hand lost me. And quite frankly, it lost me with a single aspect. The disparaging treatment of Luke. IX can turn things around, but it won't be a good ploy they used to throw audiences off, it will be JJ/the writers coming up with a way to make it look like there was a grand plan when there wasn't. I allow the possibility but the odds seem to be on the low side IMO.
When a Jedi is "tapping" into the force, it enables him to do those things. The Force doesnt go "hey, he seems like a nice guy, Ill let him shoot those missiles down that hole" and then it happens. The Force isnt sentient, and it doesnt have a "plan". Thats absurd. 
