[Chefelf]

And gotten involved in what exactly? The battle in Naboo? I dont really understand. There is no sense in the PT that the rest of the galaxy is even paying attention to the government, OR THE WAR for that matter.

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OWEN: You know, Anakin, I feel that we have grown close after these 40 minutes of knowing each other. It is my opinion that you should stay here and and not get involved... you know... back with that stuff that you're already involved with.

ANAKIN: Who the hell are you? Screw you, dude.

OWEN: Fair enough.

[Magee]

Haha Chef, that is almost word for word what my friend predicted the conversation would have to have been like. And Anakin would have had to then relay this conversation to OB1 later. Ben would then have had to have remembered this and decided that it was a good criteria to for the place to hide Luke. OHHHHH LUCAS, I HATE YOU MORE WITH EACH PASSING DAY!

[StarWarsIsUs]

""OHHHHH LUCAS, I HATE YOU MORE WITH EACH PASSING DAY! ""

Unleash your anger, and you will complete your journey to the darkside.

[Mnesymone]

No - the light side.

Unleash your anger at Lucas and complete your journey to the LIGHT side.

[StarWarsIsUs]

If thats what you prefer.

[andy_k_250]

I want somebody to explain to me why Anakin is a 10 year old in the Phantom Menace. It throws the entire PT off kilter. It makes almost everything more difficult then it has to be.

Obi Wan cant really befriend him.
We lose time developing his love affair with Luke and Leia's mother.
He is not "too old to begin the training."
The audience cannot get attatched to a 10 year old.
He cannot be one of the best starfighter pilots in the galaxy.
It sets his being a "most powerful Jedi" back 2 hours of screen time.

In '99, I instantly new that this was going to be a problem. I thought that there was going to be some big reason for it. I was wrong. The only advantage that there could have been for this was to show the audience how somebody young and innocent could become evil. This is not the point of Star Wars. It is distracting and stupid stupid stupid.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

You know how GL submitted to Boba Fett fanboy pressure in Ep II? Well, same goes for Ep I, except this time he conceded to the pedophile agenda.

[CowboyCurtis]

You know, Lucas did have a hand in producing Michael Jackson's "Captain EO." Hmm....

Seriously, though, Lucas just isn't listening to the right fanboys. He's listening to the large, Cheeto-eating, comic-book reading, numbnut farts who'll sit outside of a theatre in the cold-wet rain just to see a film BEFORE ANYONE ELSE!..


Oh... that's stereotyping? Sorry...

[Casual Fan]

From his comments in a recent issue of Rolling Stone, it seems that Lucas' aim was to make a version of Rebel Without a Cause set in outer space. He seems to have been interested in telling the story of how a Sensitive Young Man got pushed into The Wrong Path.

Even on those terms, I think he failed (for one thing that is only one movie worth of material, not three), but if you understand it in those turns making a movie about young Anakin makes more sense. Young Anakin in TPM wasn't just a means of introducing the story, that was the story.

Now he can also be criticized in that this really isn't what many Star Wars fans wanted the universe Lucas created to be used for. That's a valid criticism too, but there is a difference between saying that Lucas didn't tell his story wrong, and saying that he was trying to tell a story you weren't interested in.

[floppydisk]

He seems to have been interested in telling the story of how a Sensitive Young Man got pushed into The Wrong Path. 

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

In The Face of Adversity.

Wait, this isn't DoL...

*runs*