Where's the Serpent?

As we watched the 11 minute animation of the story of Adam and Eve, I noticed that a key character was missing when they started to turn away from God. The animation depicted that Adam and Eve became unsatisfied with everything that God gave them and they wanted more. So much so that Adam "killed" God and they started destroying all that God had made beautiful. While I don't deny that Adam and Eve grew unsatisfied with all that they had, since they both ate from the one tree God said not to eat from, it wasn't just them that brought sin into the world.

An argument can be made that it was Eve who sinned and caused Adam to sin as well, so it's all the human's fault that paradise was lost. But that wouldn't have happened without the little push caused by the devil himself. If the serpent hadn't been there to tempt them, I don't think that they would've eaten from the tree. The animation that we watched didn't even hint at the devil playing a role in the loss of Eden. That frustrated me. In my opinion, it made it look like God created something imperfect in the beginning. "God saw that it was good". If He saw that it was good, then why or how could that creation turn against Him without provocation? I know that human beings are imperfect to begin with, but Adam and Eve once lived in a sinless world where everything WAS perfect. There was no murder, no hatred, no despair.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that if you want to tell the story of humanity's initial downfall, you can't leave out one of the main reasons for that downfall: Satan. He provided the nudge that sent us over the cliff and without the love and sacrifice of Jesus, we would hit the bottom of the ground, never to get back up.