matril

I might have grappled with "Anakin saves the day by accident!" a bit more than with the million and one other things certain people started complaining about to as if to diffuse their negative reactions. Eventually, I got to the point of wondering if it "looked flashy but wasn't the biggest thing that saved the day," with Queen Amidala and her equally non-Force-powered soldiers having already captured the Trade Federation officials and no "once my droid army arrives here, the tables will turn again!" threat. As you said, though, the extended explosion (where the big ship and Death Star models could only have explosions superimposed over them in the movies made before) does have room for greater significance.