C-3PO exits stage left

From Yahoo/Reuters: bq. Bidding goodbye to the gold robot after almost 30 years, Anthony Daniels shed a nostalgic tear for the mechanical manservant who changed his life. bq. "Oh yes, it was with moisture. This was very much a fond farewell," Daniels said of his last scene as C-3PO, the android who became an icon in the "Star Wars" movies. bq. His last scene in the sixth and final film was hardly the heady stuff of magic for Daniels. Digital effects saw to that. bq. "I finished filming on the last film last week. For the final shot I walked along a blue corridor with a blue background behind me talking to someone who wasn't there." he said. bq. "Revenge of the Sith" is due out next May and completes a trilogy of pre-quels, which tell the back story of the original movie about a battle between good and evil in a distant galaxy. bq. Daniels makes no secret about his favorite of the six. bq. "The first film spoke to everyone on the planet. It still works as a funny, bright movie. It still has legs," he said of the films by U.S. director George Lucas. bq. When Lucas returned to the pre-quels, Daniels was not so sure. bq. "George's devotion to digital effects over-balanced the films. Too many digital funky characters become a little bit wearing. The storytelling always gets subsumed." Unnhhhh.. Jar Jar, call your publicist... And George, get a dialogue coach please.