Elizabeth Carver sent the following:

Hey ... This article in the Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/movies/features/menaceanalysis.htm) starts off kinda negative, which may turn you off, but as you read it,it's really good.

"... the movement of the first three films and Vader's crowning moment (and the most redemptive moment, arguably, in movie history) is when thelove for his own son overpowers his commitment to evil. He is the one, really, who saves freedom in the galaxy; he reaches out of his caul of menace when he hears his son call him "father," and it's as if eons of crime and murder are shed from his body ... Total emotional grandeur and the crowning moment in the cycle of the first three films ... [the first three movies] must chronicle a man's descent into evil, they must probe his surrender to the blasphemous, his desertion of his wife, his creed, his children, his duties. That is a brave course for a billion-dollar cycle of films to steer,and as Anakin grows and withers, surrendering ultimately to the dark side, the real test for Lucas will be to demonstrate this without losing contact with our emotional connection to the figure. "