| HappySqurriel said: Jar-Jar Binks is an annoying unnecessary character where his only redeeming characteristic is that he prevented Anakin Skywalker from being the most annoying character in the series. He is the perfect symbol of how much poorer the writing in the prequels were from the original trilogy. |
Someone once made a good point, that children in a coming of age story should be in their teens. Anakin is too young, he doesn't have the rebelling attitude or teenage angst that, say, John Connor in Terminator 2 had which made his realisation of how the world is so compelling.
If they have no conflicting personal feelings, then the character is just boring and annoying. You could argue that Anakin had the issue with his mother being a slave, but then again his mother is only in a few scenes and so we feel nothing for her.
