Bingowings said:

I think you underestimate the powers of the Gungan.

Darth Maul is probably as recognisably Star Warsian as Boba Fett or Jabba.

We are old and jaded, we forget the impact TPM had in the day.

Yes indeed, it was popular in '99, but the Characters from the Classic films are built with good foundations, unlike the Prequel sandcastles on the beach.

Did you ever see the BBC's 'The Long Way Down' in which Ewan McGregor & Charley Boorman travelled from John o'Groats to Cape town in 2007?

On the way they stopped at the Lars Homestead filming location used in Star Wars, the place was full of tourists and no-one recognised him, he was even wearing a T-Shirt with MCGREGOR on the back of it, the place was full of Star Wars posters....and one magazine cover sized pic of AOTC...with Ewans face on it.

He said he thought he'd be mobbed.....

Hopefully Michael Arndt & the writing team can leave the Prequel mistakes to dissolve and be forgotten, and build on the strong points of the Classic Films

Check out Empire Magazine's top 100 movie characters,...Darth Maul isn't thought about along with his Prequel friends:

http://www.empireonline.com/100-greatest-movie-characters/default.asp?c=2