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Mist_Devil
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Mar '05
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4/18/05 8:03pm
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eh...watto's ok, but there are better misc. characters, such as those little blue things you see running around everywhere on tatooine. though they didn't talk, they were just cool anyway! 
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Obladi_Oblada
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4/19/05 3:13am
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I actually kind of dislike that he's a likeable character. He's a slave owner who actually gambled with a child's life and would have blown him up if he tried to escape. He should have been somebody we love to hate. In my opinion, making him somewhat compassionate made things too easy for Anakin. There could have been a lot more dramatic tension between the two characters.
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Zenek
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4/19/05 12:06pm
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Watto is 2nd only to Sebulba in the coolness factor
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Chaotic_Serenity
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4/20/05 5:56am
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I actually kind of dislike that he's a likeable character. He's a slave owner who actually gambled with a child's life and would have blown him up if he tried to escape. He should have been somebody we love to hate. In my opinion, making him somewhat compassionate made things too easy for Anakin. There could have been a lot more dramatic tension between the two characters.
Personally, I'd be alot less impressed if Watto was the cruel, unyielding slaver stereotype. He's a product of the Tatooine society, which indulges morally reprehensible practices like slavery. Part of the point of the prequels is that not everyone has to be heinously evil to commit wrongdoing. Modern culture may not agree with it as much as it did before, but slavery has been around for millenia, and it still exists in plenty of places today. Are we supposed to hate every person who has practied it over the few million years?
Watto's behavior toward Shmi and Anakin makes sense. They're both hardworking, and Anakin has more worth to him healthy and able given his mechanical brilliance and piloting skills. And it's not as though anything thinks what's going on is right. Lucas even uses Padme, Qui Gon, Shmi, etc. as mouthpieces to voice his feelings on the ill nature of slavery. Most of us here who like Watto do so because he's an interesting character design, but that doesn't mean we think he's a good guy.
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Master_Trance
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4/20/05 10:14am
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Watto is awsome
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darthdaver
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4/20/05 11:40am
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Watto is a useless character that made the movie extremely cartoon-like. Anakin and his mother should have been owned by Jabba the Hutt!
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Wester547
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4/20/05 1:31pm
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Watto rules.
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jedi_master1028
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I loved Watto in The Phantom Menace. In my opinion, he is one of the best Star Wars aliens, period.
I love his interactions with Qui-Gon. Like the scene where Qui-Gon informs Watto that he owns a podracer.
Qui-Gon: "...the fastest ever built..."
Watto: (smug) "I hope you didn't KILL anyone I know for it"?
Watto's delivery of that line is funny 
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Darth_Digital
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4/20/05 6:32pm
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Yeah I think Watto's okay.
I used to wonder how Vader thought of him. Alas I got no answer so I just wrote one...
Watto's fate
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SithScumBag
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4/20/05 9:49pm
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I think Watto is a cool alien.
1. lookes funny
2. talks funny
And resists jedi mind tricks.
over all Watto is my 3rd favorite character in TPM
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Lars_Muul
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4/21/05 12:15am
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Yes, I like Watto.
Trunks are cool
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STUBRIS
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Dec '01
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4/21/05 7:02am
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I love it how they turned Watto into a sympathetic character, a pathetic old fool in AOTC.In TPM he was always pushing Ani around, lording it up like the confident slave master he is, and yet by the time we get to him in epII, there he is, still stuck on Tatooine while others have moved on...in the novel he practically begs Anakin to stay and chat for a while, I think this desperation comes across in the animation which is superb.In fact, I always thought Watto was the most successful character in terms of animation, maybe that has something to do with the fact that he doesnt have to walk, because that is where a lot of cgi goes awry.
I love my plush Watto too!
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padawan-yoda
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Apr '05
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4/23/05 12:52am
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I liked watto
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dumb
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Dec '03
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4/23/05 9:06am
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I always thought that Watto was a far superior creature to Jar-Jar in terms of CGI "believability".
Watto is very sweet and lifelike.
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