Re: CHAT: I saw it! I saw it! I saw it!

At 06:30 PM 6/9/99 -0700, Sylvia Sotomayor wrote:
>At 08:07 PM 6/9/99 +0000, you wrote:
>>On 9 Jun 99, at 17:40, Ed Heil wrote:
>>
>>> Sally Caves wrote:
>>> > And I didn't much care for Anikin.  The future Darth Vader should have
>>> > been older, and there should have been something darker about him,
>>> > something that would have justified Yoda's sense that he wasn't right,
>>> > something that made him a more interesting wundorkind than that cute
>>> > button-nosed little thing saving the day all the time.  Marketing.
>>>
>>> I found Anakin sufficiently creepy, and not particularly cute, FWIW.
>>> Couldn't put my finger on it; maybe I was just reading Vader into him.
>>>  But it worked for me.
>>
>>An eight-year old Anikin already obviously evil would have made
>>_The Phantom Menace_ more interesting, but would probably hurt
>>this trilogy overall.   We need to see how he gets from here to there
>>before we can judge the story as a whole.
>>
I found the contrast between the "cute" kid and our knowledge of his
eventual fate added a real poignancy to the movie.

>>
>I liked the movie overall. It seemed to me when Yoda sensed fear in him, he
>meant fear of losing/being separated from his mother. That coupled with the
>whole too sentimental goodbye scene between Anakin and Mom makes me think
>that in episode 2 or thereabaouts Anakin is going to come back to free the
>slave, especially Mom, but find that she's dead or she dies in the process,
>and that is what is going to turn him to the dark side. This is my
>prediction based only on seeing the movies.
You must be reading my mind.  That was exactly what I thought, too.

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