I think the most reasonable explanation for Hayden at the end of Jedi is also the explanation that NOBODY can argue: When new generations watch the movies 1-6, they will see the only Anakin Skywalker they have known (besides Lloyd, but if you're going to argue that, you can shove it somewhere), and smile fondly at it.

And that one works best for me as well. After seeing Anakin be all Vaderish throughout the movies, I think that watched in one sitting, it will be nice to see Anakin/Vader as the audience knew him, one last time.

han was a badass, dirty harry style shoot first ask questions later, now its like he got that lucky and w/e

Is it just me or does everything seemed rushed in the recent trilogy. Anakin and Obi1 have to make a "desparate" attempt to save palpatine, but it was hardly desparate. Obi1 has to kill this "ruthless" General Grevious, but it seemed like he was just killing another bad guy...

It seemed like there was just a list of points and events GL had to get done in order to explain the second trilogy and they were done simply as a means to an end with no feeling. I think with ep 4,5 and 6, he was more concerned with creating a cool world for his audience since it was brand new, whereas in the new trilogy, everyone knows and is familiar with SW so he just has to follow a general plot...My thoughts anyway