Why HJO would have been wrong as Annakin

Rating: 8/10 (29 August 2004)

When you really think about it, the Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy is the galactic bouncer of the Empire. He's "the big guy we'll send around to break ya fingers if ya don't pay up" - well, metaphorically at any rate. It's actually Grand Moff Tarkin (in Ep IV) and the Emperor (in Eps V & VI) that are really the political masterminds that are calling the shots. They're the strategists, the big bosses, while Darth Vader is the cat's paw/the patsy/the muscle.
On top of that, the interpretation of the Eps I, II & III (at least what I'm guessing) is that Annakin/Darth Vader is very impetuous, impatient and quick-tempered. He's the sort of person who wants everything done his way, in obvious black & white choices; and he's going to ram through like the proverbial bull in a china shop in order to get results. It's this personality that makes the Dark Side so tempting. As Yoda says (as far as I can remember); the Dark Side "isn't more powerful; just quicker, easier."
I recall Haley Joel Osment's father complaining in an interview that they auditioned the kids for Annakin by getting them to play with toys. I can understand what the casting agents were doing; they were checking the child's inherent personality and problem-solving techniques. Were they more impulsive, aggressive, impatient? Or were they inherently analytical, calculating, shrewd?
It seems to me that Haley is an inherently intellectual, very politically astute, and analytical type of person. He would have actually made a perfect child version of Palpatine or Moff Tarkin. Whereas Jake Lloyd on the other hand is a lot more impulsive, aggressive, and fairly choleric in his personality. Even he admitted in interviews that he's inherently a tough person to deal with. Which actually demonstrates that he was the perfect casting as a young Annakin; who was going to turn into a brooding and threatening Darth Vader. My own disappointment with his performance in this movie was that he didn't get a chance to really lose his cool, and demonstrate the underlying impatience, and tendency towards the Dark Side.