This discussion would probably be best to be talked about after everbody has seen ep. III but I figured it might be interesting to see what people think about it at this point.
It is obvious that Palpatine was directly involved in bringing Anakin to the capital of the Old Republic (can't think of the name) in ep. II to help out in protecting the queen and so he could start slowly trying to bring Anakin to the darkside.
But do you think Palpatine was involved in any way in getting the Jedi to discover Anakin and bring him to the Jedi Council so he could start being trained in the ways of the force in Ep. I. Qui Gon was very strangely determined to bring Anakin to the Republic and get Anakin trained in Ep. I.
Do you think Qui Gon was secretly helping Darth Sidious out and Darth Sidious new about Anakin on Tatooine. And Darth Sidious had it all planned out on how he was going to overthrow the Jedi from the very very beginning.
And on a side note I wish they would have given some backstory on Darth Sidious as to how he became powerful with the Darkside and what not because I think Sidious is just as interesting and frightening of character as Darth Vader was. I guess it is possible we will hear some backstory about Sidious in Ep. III but doubt it.