But also, not to dampen the magical mood around here, kids like a lot of stuff that is otherwise dumb. I mean I used to see kids playing with Wild Wild West and Batman and Robin action figures--does that validate such hideous films as those? No. Kids like poorly constructed entertainment like that. This is just an emotional reaction to a small kid entranced by flashy graphics and simplistic characterisation. I didn't want to post this earlier because this is a sweet, touching story, but some kid somewhere was also touched and had his life improved through the watching of Battlefield Earth as well. Star Wars was great because it touched old viewers as much as it did kids, so while the PT obviously has enough in it to semi-entertain some older folks and entertain most of the younger folks, the PT are still pale shadows (but shadows nonetheless i suppose).

Anyway, just wanted to throw that out there and bring everyone back down.

Bless you for giving him the toys though nohandluke, that is extremely sweet of you.