My three year old son's favorites are ROTJ and TPM, in that order.  He cackles like a loon at Jar Jar's antics, he loves Darth Maul, Jabba and the Ewoks, and thinks the speeder bike and pod racing scenes are cool.

He's coming around to like ANH a little more, because he recognizes it from me playing Lego SW II.

I liked the overall context of the prequels: the political intrigue and the culmination of civilization on Coruscant, presided over by a corrupt Senate.  I liked the role of the Jedi, and the fact that they had become somewhat complacent in their role in the universe. 

The prequels provided a nice socio-political juxtaposition to the OT by setting up the civilized Republic that devolved into an Empire and a rebellion.

I also liked the shades of moral conflict.  In the OT, the bad guy wore black (Vader) and the good guy wore white (Luke...at least in ANH).  But you knew who was good and who was bad.

Obi Wan, a wisened product of the "Old" Republic learned that sometimes things weren't so simple.  Things changed when viewed "from a certain point of view."

Jango Fett was "just a simple man, trying to make his way in the universe."  He genuinely cared about his "son."  But he cast his lots in with the wrong crowd.  Was he good?  Bad?  Choosing sides at all, or just paying the rent?

Was Dooku an evildoer, or just a misguided idealist tired of the Senate's corruption and the weak will of the Jedi Order? 

Was Palpatine a bad guy, or was he trying to restore stability, if not democracy, to a bloated galaxy governed by beuracracy?

Did Anakin turn to the Dark Side, or was he being loyal to the government instituted by the People under the direction of their chosen leader ("This is how democracy dies...to thundrous applause.")

Of course, all of those moral ambiguities are clarified in the subsequent movies; the Jedi way is the right way, the Dark Side is bad, Palpatine's power was just as corrosive as the corruption of the Senate, Jango's mercenary ways ended up being not just his, but Boba's, undoing....

But that's the way life is: you make choices in the heat of the moment's fires without really knowing where you'll end up.  The prequel trilogy sets up the chaos from which the clarity of the OT's morality tale emerges.

They have their flaws, but all in all, the prequels play a vital part in the bigger stories that the saga tells. 

Jar Jar sucks, though.

I caught it this afternoon and was mildly amused. Honestly, it was too unbalanced to seem credible.

Because, clearly, credibility is what the film was shooting for.

Especially when TRU is selling the AT-AT, which is a comparable vehicle in size and plastic, for $90.

1. SA Emperor's Throne Room Duel Luke
2. Up-to-date Nein Numb (doesn't need to be SA)
3. Up-to-date Zuckuss
4. Up-to-date 4-LOM
5. Tonnika Sisters
6. SA Jango Fett
7. Yarna whatever (the fat six-breasted chick from Jabba's Palace)
8. More new cantina guys
9. More new Jabba's Palace guys
10. More new Jedi
11. More new troops (enough with the prequel clones, though)

I say hell with it, Rob.  You don't have anything to lose by throwing the whole kit and kaboodle up there on eBay for $3000 or whatever.  Maybe some rich dude will want to give himself a Christmas present.

If it doesn't work out, you lose the listing fee (I haven't eBayed anything for awhile, so I don't know what that's climbed to), and you can go back and get rid of things by individual figure or lot by lot.

I also had an accumulation of a bunch of carded stuff I didn't want anymore, but I just hate the eBay process so much that I gave it all to the son of the lady who cleaned our offices.

Both of the K-Feds, then Britney.

Gotta taste the bitter to know the sweet.

Seriously, she looks pretty damn hot, considering the fat, frumpy trailer trash that Matt Lauer interviewed a couple of months ago.

Looks like it will be four more years, weird wild day, lets hope there will be some healing and moving forward together instead of the endless partisan bickering that has marked the last 2+ years. 

It's sad to me that the patriotism and unity that we all palpatably felt post 9/11 has evaporated to the same point where I feel we are at the same point as what the country was in 11/00.  I guess what I hope for is a fresh start.

[Nelson]Ha-ha![/Nelson]