Anghraine

OMG, I keep meaning to comment on how much I love the "kidnapping for great justice" analysis of Yoda's actions. And I completely love your description of Anakin's state of being at that point in the PT, and I am with you that he had more say in this than Yoda, or Bail or Obi-wan. And I also completely love your discussion of Obi-wan. Although I think letting Obi-wan choose would end up with a default to "whatever Yoda wants" anyway, and I'm not too sure that Bail would be much more independent (though one of my Unpopular Fannish Opinions, which I think I mentioned elsewhere, is that movie!Bail was kind of a Jedi groupie, lol). But, yeah, Yoda was so not in this. And Bail and Obi-wan just accepted or at least seemed to accept that Yoda had that right. Ugh.

Also, I have a not-so-sneaking suspicion that Anakin, presented with his children, i.e. a less tenuous and distant emotional attachment than he had with Palpatine, would have about-faced on what you so aptly called elsewhere his Heel-Face Revolving Door, because Anakin is all about his attachments. Which makes Yoda's behavior all that much more indicative of how little of a clue Yoda had at that point.