re: Jar Jar Binks actor talks about suicide attempt

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I’ve long maintained that Phantom Menace was written with the intent of having Anakin be around 16 years old.

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And that was stupid storytelling. The first "prequel" should have been OBI WAN'S STORY. Maybe not a full bio, but a key moment in his career. The teaser should be some reference in the 3rd act to some disturbance in the force on some backwater that needs to be investigated, but the Jedi go, "Ain't nobody got time for that" - then get through what they're getting working on.

The SECOND movie should have been finding a teen aged Anakin, and the start of the Clone Wars.

Third movie should have been been the end of the Clone Wars and the aftermath of that with Anakin becoming Vader.

That's an arc - Obi Wan protagonist, Palpatine antagonist, and Vader is the object. The protagonist loses the ultimate object in this case, but we already knew the broad strokes.

At least tell an interesting story along the way. They just punted that obvious, easy plan in favor of all toys, all the time.

Just awful...