Ups and Downs

Rating: 6/10 (27 November 2017)

An uneven start to the series. Lightsaber battle much better than anything in episodes 4-6, although probably due to superior special effects. Having a little kid in the pod race and later shooting up the space ship is typical juvenile Hollywood antics.
But the most illogical is having Anakin and his mother as slaves shows Hollywood's failure to understand slavery. His mother would have to be purchased, and she and later the boy, would have to be fed, clothed, trained, and prevented from leaving (even with the bomb implants which someone would figure out how to overcome.) All to get maybe 12 hours work or less. But in a droid based society, you would get 18 or more hours (after recharging) without the additional costs. Cost factors don't support slavery on these worlds, except possibly for Jabba's sex slaves.