Star Wars Ep. III Thought

[yakumae]

I know, I know. When did people ever say that Lucas had a "way with words"? Never, that's when. I was thinking about this and it sort of plagues me, only mildly tho.

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[lillysnowwhite]

O.K., here's what's going on. Padme is dying because she sees that there is no future for her and Anakin. Although there's some good in him, he'll never be the guy he once was and they will never have the kind of relationship the once had (which, I can say, I really relate to), so what's the use in living. Aparently, motherhood isn't enough insentive. So to sum up: she's lost all hope of having any kind of life with Anakin and even though he's still got a spec of good in him, it won't pull him back to his old happy self. What can I say? She's a princess (or queen??) after all.
As you can tell, we went to see the movie today and all of this was as plain as day to me. All in all, it was a pretty good movie (at least better than the other two) although I could see what was coming in the last half hour of the movie. Pretty good at tying up the loose ends and leading up to the Episode IV (which as we all know, takes place many years later). I really liked the Wookies.

[yakumae]

Oh I understood what was going on... how Padme was too heartless enough to want to live for her kids. What I was pointing out was that Lucas can't "write" good drama or lines to save his life. I mean, he could have had her die because of Vader, that would have been good, but no, she just "lost the will to live." It's as if he wanted her to die because of something other than Vader so that he could come back and say in the end, "See, Vader wasn't all bad. He REALLY didn't kill Padme." Doesn't really matter. His actions caused her death, so he did kill her even if his hand doesn't have blood on it. The movies are rife with plot holes because Lucas doesn't think things through, than feels he has to "fix" things by going back and redoing his first three movies to say, no no, THIS is the way I really meant it. Right. I beleive that one

[lillysnowwhite]

And furthermore, when Padme told old Obie Wan (or young Obie Wan at this stage of the episodes) that there was still some good in Anakin, he should have replied, "I don't know about that, I carved up some pretty substantial pieces out of him myself. Maybe I cut the good one out

[yakumae]

Lucas started with Jar Jar, and I was like, "Okay, comic relief, I can buy that" but then when the mediclorians entered the scene, I just threw my hands up. And the've stayed there since then. I really don't know what he was thinking.

The part I like the most was how Obi-wan would go on and on and ON about how Anikin was supposed to bring balance to the force. He was the chosen one or whatever, and then didn't understand when he went evil. Did he, nor the rest of the Jedi council, realized that the force was unbalanced, but it was that there were too many Jedi? I mean after the massacre, there was a lot more of a balance, two and two (Vader and Sidious and Obi-wan and Yoda), tho technically Luke and Leia are both "jedi" but just not yet. Seems like he WAS the one who would bring balance to the force, just not the way Jedi wanted.

[lillysnowwhite]

Needless to say, I was not even amused by Jar Jar, but when they started going on about the mediclorians, that was a bit much. I could live with the force being part of everything (sort of a Disney "circle of life" kind of thing), but little parasites in my blood directing the force is just a wee bit over the edge. And when the Emperor (Darth Sidious) starts to wave the "you can learn how to control the mediclorians and keep someone from dying" and "I'll be more than happy to teach you how" stuff under Anakin's nose, I just about lost it. He's supposed to be a Jedi (almost), but so help me, he comes across as being male and 18 years old (and boy! does he have issues). Furthermore, he's a whiner. It starts to grate after a while. No wonder his mom let him go off to become a Jedi; it got him out of her hair

[yakumae]

Hmm, I don't know. Lucas has said that he will not make a 7-9, but then again, once he get's done re-writing 4-6 to fit his vision of 1-3, and repackaging all 6 in their various different boxed forms (and there will be many, you know it), and the money from marketing starts to run a bit dry, I would not be surprised if he "changes his mind" and writes three more.