Mace Windu did not owe Anakin kindness or softness. Mace Windu is a Motherfucker Who Gets The Job Done, he doesn’t have time to coddle Anakin’s ego. But someone needed to sit Anakin down at some point and show that Mace’s action are not rejection, but protection.
“He’s too old/attached to be trained”= He is going to have a Bad Time with the current structure of the order and needs more/better support.
“You don’t get the title of master”= you were knighted too young and this war has caused all the padawans of the order to mature too quickly. You haven’t done the things that would earn you the title of master. We are in precarious political standing, so you get to sit with us, but you need more time to grow.
“Don’t come to arrest Palpatine”= turning in a friend and mentor was not easy for you. Watching him be arrested is going to hurt you even more.
But of course, Anakin’s rejection sensitivity can only see all of this as malice and hate.
Mace sees the boy who has had everything ripped away from him. The boy that was lured away by the validation the order didn’t give him. I think in ROTS, it hits him all at once just how badly he and the council failed Anakin. At his core, Mace trusted Anakin. It’s too little too late, but when he asks Anakin to stay behind, he’s so earnest to right the wrong that has slipped by him. Of course the dark side was rooted in Anakin, and there was no stopping what was to come.
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