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All throughout Episode III, Anakin is portrayed as a man under heavy stress. Like all of us, we have our breaking point where you go into shock and snap. Anakin is clearly in shock after disarming Mace to save Palpatine. When he says, "What have I done?" and then sits, it makes you wonder did Anakin really know that he joined the Sith? When he killed all the Jedi, was he still in shock? Was he really all there? Then as Vader, he kills the separatist leaders; and not long after that, he is engaged in an emotional conversation with Padme. But Vader is clearly shocked, snapped, and enraged. So Vader chokes Padme and fights in that fateful light saber fight.

A person, enraged and in shock in a death fight, may think in a strange way. Is Obi-Wan a gook in Vader's mind? I remember Viet Nam vets who would flip out from their Nam experience; and if you could not get them out of that state in time, people died. The vet would actually have a flashback and think he was in Nam again, go into rage and start killing. Vader was clearly as flipped out as John Rambo in the movie "First Blood."

The way it is proven is when Vader first gets the helmet. His first words to Palpatine, other than acknowledging hearing him, was, "Is Padme alright? Is she safe?" not even knowing he choked her. This man does not even remember his own actions. This proves shock because when in shock, your blood veins are only half full of blood; and you remember nothing of what you did or said.

Then it is clear that at least a month has passed when Vader walks towards Palpatine on the super star destroyer to watch the beginning of the Death Star being built. Now Vader is acting like the Vader we all know in Episode IV. Vader is now in control of himself and is calm, cool, and collected. Obviously the Death Star was not the only thing fixed. Palpatine had to give Vader the necessary debriefing that soldiers go through after a Nam-like experience.