Star Wars kick...

[dangermousie]

I am watching Empire Strikes Back, which I haven't seen in years and years and years, and I've forgotten how incredibly awesome and OTPish Han/Leia are. *mad squee* Yup, I just got to the kissing bit and the whole 'you like me because I am a scoundrel' thing. SQUEE

Comments

[crumpeteer]

I never did understand why everyone was so hard on the fact that Anakin was whiny. I mean, of COURSE he's whiny. Someone who turns into an arrogant dark lord WOULD be the whiny kid in school.

While I understand the original trilogy is far superior, ROTS at least gave a good backstory and did an excellent job of telling the story of an arrogant young man selling his soul to the devil, slowly and methodically.

[dangermousie]

Exactly. If you were reserved and stoic and all good with authority, you would not be the evil overlord!

[lazypadawan]

I've been SW deprived for a while. I need to watch 'em again!

[dangermousie]

They are so eminently rewatchable!

[meganbmoore]

I've never really understood the mass hatred for the prequel trilogy. I mean, I don't love it to the same degree as the original trilogy, but it's far from bad(though I do think the first 2 seriously should have been shorter

[dangermousie]

I agree with every word. I find PT actually more interesting because of this darker, tragic bent.

[meganbmoore]

Had PT banked more on story and squality and less on special effects and the SW name, the PT could have been the best set of fantasy movies ever. Anakin annoyed me with his whininess in ep, but unlike others, it didn't bother me(and let's face it...Luke is whiny too, but we don't hold it againt him because it would be rather like holding it against an annoying puppy...as Han quickly learns) because I knew what was coming.

One day I shall make a "How to properly write a coming of age heroic fantasy" post and there will be much on both SW trilogies.

[fivil]

Ha, this is my only SW related icon.

I've forgotten how incredibly awesome and OTPish Han/Leia areOhgodyes. This is possibly why Empire Strikes Back is my favourite movie of original trilogy. Oh, and the fact that of course it's one of the rare sequels that is better than the first film. IMO anyway. I mean,putting the H/L aside, there's battle of Hoth, YODA (!!!), Luke/Vader duel #1, "I am your father", Lando.. It's just made of pure awesome. I love it

[dangermousie]

You;ve described those books and now I am scarred for life.

[fire_snake]

I actually prefer Empire Strikes Back to all other SW movies. I agree with you about Revenge of the Sith, but I watched it as an adult, and it made a tremendous difference in my perceptions. It was a dark and panoramic picture of mistrust and betrayal on all levels, from personal to galactic. Overall, it was better made and acted than anything in the original trilogy, but I didn't feel the same overwhelming excitement as twenty years ago. Plus, ESB is about hope and regeneration (literal and figurative), while Revenge is essentially a tale of doom. I understand that it is about cycles of life (to paraphrase the Lion King), and I even used to have a poster of a boy Anakin casting a shadow of Darth Vader on a desert stand, but I still prefer my stories more upbeat. I can always read ancient Greek tragedies for tragically doomed heroes.

[dangermousie]

I love my angst, you know me. So ROTS rules :P