2000-12-06 - Later
I suppose I was too harsh in my last entry. After all, in The Phantom Menace the talentless little kid was playing Anakin Skywalker, and if Samuel L. Jedi had light-sabered him in half he never would have fathered Luke and Leia or become Darth Vader and thus there never would have been a Star Wars saga. Granted, this would have meant no Ewoks, but it also would have meant no Lando Calrissian and no cocaine for Carrie Fisher.
It's kind of like that question you got asked in Philosophy 101: "If you could travel through time, would you go back to when Hitler was a child and push him in front of an oncoming train?" As I recall, my answer was something along the lines of: No, because it would still be murder, because you can't punish someone for crimes he hasn't committed yet, and because chances are good anyway that even if Hitler had been removed from history, some other psychotic would-be dictator would have taken his place. This logic still holds in the case of the future Darth Vader, but with one crucial difference--chances are good that the kid who'd take Anakin's place would be a better actor. God knows he couldn't be any worse.
Why, yes, I did flunk philosophy, if you must know.
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