It occurred to me, while looking at the
Darth Vader comic where he has a vision of killing Palpatine with a green lightsaber, that
Return of the Jedi has a recurring theme of prisoners/slaves killing their captors with the tools/symbols of their enslavement:
- Leia strangling Jabba with her own chains.
- Anakin killing Palpatine with his own torture suit.
Anakin is intentionally a whiny teenager, not a mature adult space wizard samurai monk.
It's not a glamorous, symbolic relationship, it's two young people having a whirlwind marriage and then it becoming toxic over the course of a couple years, culminating in the guy losing his mind over the thought that the gal might die or choose to leave him, and eventually killing her.
The same thing happened with Padmé in Episode I, when she had this very stilted dialogue as the Queen. And also with Hayden in Episode II. He said, "I don't want to be this whiny kid." I said, "Well, you are. You gotta be a whiny teenager."
Like father, like son.
He said, "I want to be Darth Vader." I said, "You gotta be a petulant young Jedi. You're not going to be the guy you thought you'd be when you signed your contract." Hayden was grateful for this last movie, where he actually got to be Darth Vader.