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Ranting of a (former?) fanboy
Finally saw Episode 3. Beware my caps lock.
I confess I came in with high hopes, having heard it made up for the previous two. Unfortunately, after the first scene and its HORRIBLE PHYSICS ABUSE, my standards were shot. (Um, starship is IN ORBIT and rotates 90 degrees, suddenly the gravity aboard is pulling everything sideways!)
In short, too much gratuitous, not enough time spent on halfway... ok, not even quarter-way... decent dialogue. So much potential, it had. The easy way out, Lucas took. The dark side, shortcuts lead to. Never mind that so many things flew in the face of just about everything established in the EU. Some of the worst violations I saw:
I don't care how distracted a Jedi is, you cannot look him in the face while you have orders to kill him, and not have him sense hostiliy and betrayal.
The Death Star was still in design phases less than five years before New Hope, not under construction at the end of the Republic.
Having Yoda and Chewbacca know each other was entirely out of the blue and just felt too random.
What happened to the bodies of Jedi Masters disappearing when they die?
Artoo's memory was not wiped, yet never once in the future does he tell Luke all the things about his family there were ENTIRE BOOKS dedicated to his quest for.
I will say there were some touches I found absolutely beautiful. The cameo appearance by Organa's corvette. Despite the awful leadup to it, I definitely felt the shock when Anakin found the kids in the Temple. The amazing shinyness of all the various worlds shown.
Entirely unrelated, something here smells like pine.
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I confess I came in with high hopes, having heard it made up for the previous two. Unfortunately, after the first scene and its HORRIBLE PHYSICS ABUSE, my standards were shot. (Um, starship is IN ORBIT and rotates 90 degrees, suddenly the gravity aboard is pulling everything sideways!)
In short, too much gratuitous, not enough time spent on halfway... ok, not even quarter-way... decent dialogue. So much potential, it had. The easy way out, Lucas took. The dark side, shortcuts lead to. Never mind that so many things flew in the face of just about everything established in the EU. Some of the worst violations I saw:
I don't care how distracted a Jedi is, you cannot look him in the face while you have orders to kill him, and not have him sense hostiliy and betrayal.
The Death Star was still in design phases less than five years before New Hope, not under construction at the end of the Republic.
Having Yoda and Chewbacca know each other was entirely out of the blue and just felt too random.
What happened to the bodies of Jedi Masters disappearing when they die?
Artoo's memory was not wiped, yet never once in the future does he tell Luke all the things about his family there were ENTIRE BOOKS dedicated to his quest for.
I will say there were some touches I found absolutely beautiful. The cameo appearance by Organa's corvette. Despite the awful leadup to it, I definitely felt the shock when Anakin found the kids in the Temple. The amazing shinyness of all the various worlds shown.
Entirely unrelated, something here smells like pine.
click
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And yay for pine!