I'm sorry to hear that. Anakin's a dreamer; Skywalker. He wants to visit the stars, but is saddened when his home, his mother, is lost for that dream. The scene where he says goodbye to Shri is both referenced, in future movies, and done well as a scene onto itself. Anakin is torn. He is questioning where he should go. He feels physically cold by not being on the planet of desert, but emotionally abandoned, and the acting choices of a ten-year-olds, looking to Padme for help, stun me.
Anakin's journey is given a fear counterpart. When 3-PO stands, in his infancy, it is referenced to the machine legs Anakin receives in Sith:
"Fear is a path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate...leads to suffering."
That is Anakin's journey. Fear of loss will lead to anger at loss which leads to hating the Sand People, the Rebellion, and the suffering of the Empire. But, before we get there, we see Anakin as a child; emotionally pure and earnest. He isn't hiding anything.
I connect with this little ten-year-old better than I do to Hayden Christensen. At least he isn't child-like at 18 or 25. I see someone I can relate to, in terms of motivations and emotions.
Amidala mourns for her people, while fighting for them. Her scenes as simply Padme humanize her, the relationship to Anakin, the boy she nurtures, like a stray animal. Qui-Gon is the quintessential Jedi, role model. Maul, with no backstory, is menacing. The Trade Federation, polite and fearful, propped by the Darth Lord.
The masses of the universe have to be stupid, and part of the power grab is the lack of transparency, over-reliance on technology, ignorance, in addition to corruption. All those elements work in this movie, deepened by what follows it.
