Poor Unfortunate Souls, Chapter Ten: The Stolen Years

[scribal_goddess]

Chapter Ten: The Stolen Years
Contents and Warnings
Chapter Nine: The Sound of Never
The staccato click of shoes grew closer, and a man in a grey suit entered the room.

[Everyone talks, nobody listens]My first thought was relief - he wasn’t Christian Grey - but he was still definitely armed and professional. I could tell because of the military stance and the earpiece, and

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[saiditallbefore]

** An overdeveloped sense of responsibility is not the same thing as an overdeveloped sense of vengeance. LOL But it's very close. ;)

Can't wait to see where you're taking this next!

[scribal_goddess]

The Princess Bride deserves every quote and offhand reference. ;D

Not long now!

[saiditallbefore]

It's such a quotable movie! Did you hear there's a possibility Disney will make it into a stage show?

[scribal_goddess]

I don't know whether to be delighted or terrified. They seem to be buying up nostalgia in bulk.

[saiditallbefore]

True. But (imo) Disney generally does things well, so I feel pretty okay about all the projects they've got in the works.

[scribal_goddess]

I'm actually kind of looking forward to the Star Wars, because maybe they can tie the old trilogy to the new trilogy a bit better... but they probably don't have the right to alter anything... at least maybe they'll do the montages better?

[saiditallbefore]

Oh I hope. I'm not sure anything can be worse than Episode II. I know people are always hating on Episode I, but to me, the ~frolicking in the meadows~ Padme/Anakin romance was the worst part. I always skip it on re-watches.

[scribal_goddess]

Honestly, I think episode I, aside from the plotholes (there were a few) fit the tone of the original trilogy better. It was an adventure where the heroes behaved heroically, and had all the fantastic exploring... and child Anakin was played by a much better actor than "brooding manchild" Annekin.

Also, the age gap for Padme/Anakin has always irked me a bit... the Dawson casting makes the supposed five years age gap impossible to believe... and there was no chemistry, largely because they kept forgetting about Padme in the middle of Episode II, and Anakin's actor only had two facial expressions.

[saiditallbefore]

Exactly! The only problem is that it doesn't really tie in plot-wise with Episodes II and III.

Their relationship gives me the creeps. I can't watch Natalie Portman in anything without thinking of her as Padme. Which is a shame, since she's a good actress, and I actually like her character in Thor.

[scribal_goddess]

Well, it's more of a set-up, which you can do in a six part series when you start from the front... but not from the middle.

Yeah, it's all... squidgy. And it's not the age gap, it's the obsession, it's very uncomfortable and honestly I was not surprised that in the end Anakin killed her. I saw it coming even in episode two when he started obsessing over her and then with the sand people... nope. You start your darkness early in the middle of a prequel trilogy and lose the presence of an actual hero for the next movie and a half? Bad move. Force choking his wife to death made Vader so, so much less of a redeemable villian. So did slaughtering the padawans (one gets the impression that they hoped to squeak the sand people by on "it was revenge, yes it was wrong but it wasn't premeditated, he went crazy with grief,) but honestly, after seeing that, good luck selling Vader's redemption scene, Lucas!

[saiditallbefore]

Yeah, Anakin just makes me uncomfortable. And honestly? The Vader redemption scene always makes me laugh, even though I know it's supposed to be super touching. Luke & Vader's scenes just come off as so cheesy to me. But the good kind of cheese. The kind I enjoy over and over again. ;)

Episode III is just dark. I'll watch it, especially if I'm doing a complete re-watch of the series, but it isn't fun like the original trilogy is.

[scribal_goddess]

Yeah, but everything was hammy in the first trilogy. :D

I think Anakin's actor knew he was playing a spoiled, petulant brat that would turn psychotic... and when the script was trying to make him more sympathetic, it didn't work in the least. (Rather like the guy who plays the new James Bond, who knows the dude is a sociopath and plays that brilliantly... but I still can't watch it!)

[saiditallbefore]

So true. :D

Probably. I've heard Hayden Christensen (that's his name, I think) is good in other things, but idk.

Really? I love the new Bond movies! Everyone has their favorite Bond, though, and I had only seen bits and pieces of the old ones before the latest movies.

[scribal_goddess]

I saw Skyfall and none of the other ones. Which... yeah, part of my thing with Skyfall was Bond, part of it was the really terrible treatment of Severine (the girl who Bond has sex with four whole in-movie minutes after he is a dick about the fact that she was a sex slave since her preteen years,) and the last part was probably a bit that I shouldn't have been watching movies with sociopathic characters at the time. :/

[saiditallbefore]

Yeah, I can understand you not liking that. Tbh, I probably wouldn't like that too much on a re-watch. I actually didn't remember that part. I've only seen the movie once, in the theater, and that was obviously awhile ago.

[scribal_goddess]

We watched it three times this summer while I was on a school trip. This probably contributed to my intense hatred of that scene.(We had a limited number of available movies and there's only so long you can marathon the Directors' cut of Lord of the Rings.)