Today is a birthday for the teenaged Anakin Skywalker, Hayden Christensen (23).
Is it just me, or is something missing from the second Star Wars trilogy? Dave White says an everyman ala Han Solo is missing. I also think these movies are less magical--due in no small part to the quantification of The Force into microscopic creatures called mitichlorians. The biggest downer is knowing in advance the story will end darkly: Anakin (an unsympathetic, arrogant Jedi prodigy) will become Darth Vader, scourge of the galaxy. Yay?
Is George Lucas full of himself enough to believe audiences will keep watching simply to fill in backstory (fatalistic backstory at that)?
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