I'm sure he is an awesome guy and got undue personal tormenting at school but you also have be fair to yourself in that it's not some personal shame to have criticized his performance, unless you were really mean and personal. Frankly, his performance wasn't good, partly because he was miscast and, I must assume, poorly directed, but also because as far as nine-year-old child actors go he just wasn't that good. Fine for television or something like that, but not good enough to carry a major film. I guess in that respect you have to blame George Lucas for putting him in that position when he should have known that the kid couldn't cut it; the kid himself doesn't know any better, and his parents are just trying to be supportive so of course they are going to encourage him, but the blame really does fall to Lucas for putting someone that naive under so big a spotlight. We've all seen that audition scene on the Episode I documentary where there was a really good runner-up actor that would not have received the amount of critcism as Lloyd did.