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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mouseferatu" data-source="post: 1664567" data-attributes="member: 1288">Oh, I don't expect all that much from an actor that age. OTOH, I expect better than Jake Loyd did. (Witness Haley Joel Osmont from The Sixth Sense.)It doesn't help, of course, that they had pretty crappy scripts to work from. Even Ewan McGregor and Natalie Portman haven't been able to do a lot with some of the scenes in the Episodes 1 and 2.But my point is, there was no need for age to even have been an issue. The tragedy of Darth Vader was never about an innocent kid turning evil. It was about a powerful (and generally good) Jedi turning evil. I personally feel the series would have been a lot stronger if Annakin had been older when they found him, and actually begun training as a Jedi before the end of the first movie. The second could then have devoted much more to the beginnings of his fall, and the third to the culmination of it.</blockquote>