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[Star Wars] Was Palpatine grooming Anakin to turn dark so that Palpatine himself could "possess" his body, or was Anakin simply groomed to wipe out the Jedi?

After the Return of Skywalker where he reveals his plan to need a new body to transfer his essence, it got me wondering if Anakin was initially chosen for that. Did Palpatine want to take over his body, seeing as how his midichlorian levels were pretty high?

Sidious was even expressing sadness when he finds Anakin burned in Mustafar. Why would he express sadness (or pity?) when we know Siths do not care about each other, certainly not Sidious?
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He was more grooming Anakin as a way to pervert the power of the Force with that of the dark side, turning himself into a dark god. (Or at least, that was implied in earlier post-2014 canon material).

Anakin's injuries, however, proved to be the undoing of that plan.