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[Star Wars] Is Anakin supposed to be clever and intelligent, or a complete moron?

I know Vader is a brilliant tactician and military commander (not many people mention this, but Vader is mainly dominating the rebels in Empire by outsmartng them) but what about Anakin? 

How smart he is in Clone Wars is a matter of debate depending on whether you attribute his military success to genuinely clever, outside the box type tactics or the Force keeping him alive for as long as possible (i.e his plans were mostly shit and he got lucky).

In Phantom Menace he's a child prodigy, working as the mechanic at Watto's shop and straight up created C-3PO at the age of 9.

In Attack of the Clones he's more powerful and skilled at 19 than Obi-Wan was at 25, though that may be less intelligence and more just Chosen One stuff. Don't really see any evidence for or against his intellect otherwise.

And then he's sort of just a complete moron in Revenge of the Sith. He's easily manipulated, loses to Obi-Wan after fighting like an idiot (seriously, he had an entire shore to jump onto and continue the fight, why choose the only spot where he actually can get hit?). In the Opera House scene, Palpatine is doing everything beyond literally shouting up and down, "I'M A SITH LORD ANI!" and Anakin still doesn't learn the true until Palpatine directly tells him. 

Basically, is Anakin a moron?
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Have powerful, vivid visions of the most important person in your entire life dying and feel - as the most powerful person in the WORLD - powerless to stop it.

Then tell me how smart your decisions are.