Diego said:

The whole "Anakin was a slave when he was a kid" is irrelevant later on, and it's really kinda stupid. Anakin doesn't seem to have it so bad while being a slave, in fact he looks very middle-class. Sure he has to work for Watto, and yes, children shouldn't work, but what else is there to do on Tatooine. Did they have an excellent school that Anakin wasn't attending?? I don't think so. Watto even let him go early that one time we did see him working, and he yelled Yipee!! (like Watto's a cool boss). His house doesn't look that different from Luke's. The whole slave was pointless.

Seriously!

If you read a quick synopsis of TPM, who would guess that "being born into slavery on a harsh desert world" would have no bearing on Darth Vader's development... other than not caring for sand.

And wait... does he still have that bomb in his head during the other movies?