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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Klaus" data-source="post: 1938318" data-attributes="member: 607">I don't blame Jake Lloyd. I blame George for casting him as an 8-year old Anakin when it should have been Hayden all along playing a 16-year old Anakin. Cases in point:- Anakin's love of "cars", which harken back to the original SW's script with Luke's love of "cars".- Anakin's working hard as a slave, taking the brunt of Watto's work off his mother's shoulders.- Anakin being "too old" to begin training. Jake Lloyd was barely older than the Younglings in Ep. II. Seeing they turn down a 16-year old would be more credible.- The sly smile Anakin and Padmé exchange at the end of TPM. Were it Hayden, it could be a hint of what's to come. With Lloyd there, it's just creepy...- Only Anakin ages between Ep. I and II. Were Hayden, just a little make-up trick and he could look a bit older. Padme, specially, seems frozen in time.- No time to rescue Shmi. If Hayden were Anakin in Ep. I, we could buy into an intensive training period (say, 5 years), and there wasn't time to go after his mom. But the age gap between Lloyd and Hayden makes it hard to believe.As for the lack of a true villain, Darth Maul had the iconic appearance to rivel Vader's status, were he given three movies to shine. And having Anakin strike him down and take his place would have a great meaning, paralelling the Vader/Luke duel in RotJ.As for the fighting, I was underwhelmed by the Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan/Maul triel (three-person duel), but not as much as with the Obi-Wan/Jango Fett battle and the almost casual Mace Windu/Jango Fett battle.</blockquote>

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