[colorado tanker]

I had the same experience, the political jabs just clunked. The line about only the Sith think in absolutes hurt the scene and was downright funny. Half the movie is spent explaining the rules the Jedi have about everything, while it's Palpatine who tells Anni to be flexible and experiment with the Dark Side.

[Betaille]

Lucas wanted to make a story about good and evil, while completely ignoring the implications of it. It is clearly the villains that use moral relativism in their arguments even in Lucas's own movies, and yet later in the same movie he tries to make a political point that only evil people believe in moral absolutes.