I have been thinking about this scene for a year now...
It's just so.... creepy. There's no other word for it. It's also incredibly good, obviously, and visually striking, and very well written, and that's the whole thing about it.
To the characters, nothing too out of place is happening - Cody and Obi-Wan are in dire straits, Anakin shows up, brags, and says he can get them out of that mess, completely unbothered by the battle around him.
To us though, it's framed in such a way it gets very eerie and just on the verge of frightening.
We go from a standard tense battle scene with everything exploding around us and blaster bolts zipping by to Anakin suddenly appearing out of nowhere, the music dropping abruptly and the battle sounds getting more distant as the only thing that remains is him.
Right in the middle of the frame, Anakin towers over us and everyone else. And then he stands on the top of some debris, overlooking the destruction, and the music suddenly turns very disquieting - soft and foreboding, and very out of place, like Anakin is.
Anakin being completely at ease in the midst of the chaos and not even paying attention to what's around really highlights how insanely powerful he is. He's essentially god-like here.
Immovable, the only thing affecting him is the soft breeze running through his hair and tunics. You can even see the light shining down upon him. He is framed like a savior, an angel.
He's above everything and seemingly untouched by fear, suffering - even dirt.
And it's just frightening, because in contrast you have the music suddenly telling you to be worried, and dead bodies at Anakin's feet as he quips, and Anakin's sly and softspoken comments when Obi-Wan is frantic, exasperated, at the end of his rope - everything just reminding you that this right here is the most powerful man in the universe and he knows it now. The scene makes you experience what it's like to be around Anakin Skywalker, the son of the Force, and to feel who he is.
And again, it's just so creepy because of how out of place Anakin's power is - how out of this world he has the potential to be. And it's so worrying because you know how the story ends, and so you know this is the shadow of terrifying things to come.
It’s that moment of “You’re overdoing it.” Obi-Wan says to Anakin that really does it for me. It isn’t just that Anakin is ridiculously powerful (though he is), but that even with that ridiculous amount of power, he’s reckless with it. It reminds you of Vader because Vader is reckless with his power, but he always finds a way out because that’s just who he is. You’re seeing that in Anakin here. But you’re also seeing Anakin helping people, that he’s trying to help defend them from the Separatists, but it’s also that he’s not really taking care anymore, he’s just whizzing through the battle because it’s so easy and that’s the seductive lure of the Force, that you’re faster than average humans, you’re able to feel things average humans can’t, you’re more agile and more powerful than average humans, it’s so easy to just whiz through a battle. We’re seeing Anakin shedding that sense of really taking his time, shedding that sense of being careful. The motivation behind it is still working towards the good, like, is he wrong that the sooner they get done with this battle, the sooner the people here don’t have to deal with being attacked? Of course he’s not wrong. But he’s also shedding a sense of being careful and we all know exactly where it’s going to lead, that shedding of the sense of caring about how you move through the galaxy, when you’re a one-man walking nuclear weapon. Anakin is the most powerful person in the galaxy, he’s comfortable in wielding that power, and he’s no longer truly being careful about it.
