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

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.


Jim Henry III
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