In episode 2, he defends Anakin to Obi-Wan several times, and says he is the chosen one. In this, he suddenly doesn't trust him and doubts the prophecy. Was there stuff that happened in the Clone Wars show or something? Just an odd turnaround to go from trusting and defending Anakin to openly despising him.
shareI don’t think he despised him, just distrusted his relationship with the Chancellor and also could sense the fear and anger in him.
shareHe distrusted Anakin because Palpatine was pulling his strings. Windu wasn't stupid but he knew that Anakin was, he could see that every time Anakin talked to his dear friend the Chancellor he came back even angrier and more full of himself than usual, AND he had to know of who defied Jedi rules and got Senator Padme pregnant. Anyone with a triple-digit IQ could tell that Palpatine wasn't trustworthy and that he was telling the Jedi's problem child what he wanted to hear, and that Anakin was going to become a massive problem before long.
It's not clear when Windu began to suspect Chancellor Palpatine was the Sith he was looking for, but he'd probably started suspecting Sith associations around the time the chancellor was granted "special powers".
Mace never suspected Palpatine as the sith lord. He, and the other jedi, suspected Palpatine was working with the sith lord, either willingly or by force or coercion.
But the OP has a point. Mace doesn't just say, "I don't trust Anakin's relationship with Palpatine". He says he doesn't trust Anakin himself. Even after all Anakin did, that is odd.
Well, Anakin himself wasn't trustworthy. He was stupid, he was petulant and angry, he'd fallen in love against the rules and was about to be a father, he trusted the dubious Palpatine and distrusted the Jedi Masters, he'd slaughtered innocent civilians, etc.
He was absolutely lacking in the qualities that make a good Jedi, except for his power level, and the fact that he was stupid and bad-tempered made him unworthy to wield that kind of power. So even before Anakin "fell", you bet your ass the top Jedi were worried about the fact that the super-powerful "Chosen One" was an utter twerp.
I don't think Mace every really trusted Anakin because of the power and uncertainty surrounding him. He also despised Anakin's arrogance and rogue attitude toward Jedi teachings even after Anakin became a Jedi. I always got the sense that Mace distrusted Anakin because he felt that he was not mentally strong enough for his powers and well we all know why the character was written that way. All in all, I always thought that Mace was a poor teacher because he was too busy trying to be a hardass instead of employing others methods to deal with Anakin's instability when the former was ineffective.
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