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

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.

ObConLang:  Honestly, sloppily put together as it seems to have been,
Huttese was one of the things that really made the movie for me.  It
put a chink into one of those almost unavoidable but annoying things
that turn up in popular science fiction: the "everyone on every planet
speaks English" syndrome.

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