It's strange about Yoda. When I saw Episode II, Revenge of the Wooden Acting, in the theater, everyone roared with laughter when Yoda fought Dooku. It was like a big joke. This time though, when Yoda fought Palpatine... dead silence. For us serious fans, it was like witnessing a clash of the gods, heh.
AND--in a culture that mastered galactic space travel, lightsabers, and really kick-ass prosthetic limbs, a woman doesn't know she's having twins until delivery? Ultrasound, they have not? Skeptical, I am.
My favourite thing is that none of the Jedi sensed it, not even Anikan, who you would have thought would have walked into the room and thought "hang on a sec I sense 4 people in here, but there is only me and padme...".
AND--in a culture that mastered galactic space travel, lightsabers, and really kick-ass prosthetic limbs, a woman doesn't know she's having twins until delivery? Ultrasound, they have not? Skeptical, I am.
Don'y you kinda get the impression R2 was secretly laughing at us all through the original trilogy, he's like "duh, i knew this already" and i think he didn't tell c3po because he knew that he'd blab it everywhere (which he would).
"I saw that, Solo! One more trick like that and you're out of here, brat!" We needed something. Does Lucas not know that Han is the universal favorite? What gives??It didn't even
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I swear that I saw the Falcon towards the beginning. There's a scene when a ship is approaching a landing bay on one of the bigger ships, and the Falcon I think is near the bottom of the screen, just a little to the right of the middle. The Falcon is approaching a different bay.
"hang on a sec I sense 4 people in here, but there is only me and padme..."
LOL! I like that idea better.
i think he didn't tell c3po because he knew that he'd blab it everywhere (which he would).
Yeah, probably a good point...though they didn't seem to mind trusting him with the "secret" that Anakin was totally living with a pregnant Naboo chickie.
Another hitch in continuity for me: when did Darth Vader work out that he had a son?
Darth Sidious lies and tells the newly risen Darth Vader that in his anger, he killed Padme. Padme was visibly pregnant when that happened. Now we have to buy one of two things:
1. Darth Vader moved on thinking that his unborn child died with Padme and took the discovery of his master's lie completely in stride when Luke shot the tail off his TIE fighter in A New Hope.
2. Darth Vader assumed that after abandoning him to a fiery fate, Obi-Wan took poor, dead Padme away and had the child extracted elsewhere. Then, with the full resources of the Empire behind him and a pretty good understanding of what Jedi get up to when cornered, Darth Vader failed to find his own son.
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2a. Mr. Mad Skillz in the Force failed at any time to notice he was the expectanct father of twins or later that Senator Double Cinnamon Bunhead With Attitude bore more than a passing resemblance to his dead wife.
We only got the briefest of looks through the mask, but I'm not sure the visual field of it allowed for hair and eye color. :D
There were a couple times when I thought Hayden Christensen resembled Luke -- which might be just me looking for such a thing and convincing myself that it was there, but it was a job well done.
Luke's hair got shorter and darker over the original trilogy while Anakin's appeared to get a little wilder and curlier, or what that just me? The resemblance I think we both saw was that they got a lot more serious as time went on, not to mention more comfortable with their connection to the Force and developed penchants for wearing lots of black. ;)
I didn't miss the adolescent whining on either of'm.
Senator Double Cinnamon Bunhead With Attitude Heehee. I like that.
But yes...as someone else said: how come Vader didn't sense Leia's relation to him, but could sense Luke from like a planet away?
I'm starting to think the only reason they didn't reveal the twins aspect until the birth was so that Vader would only suspect he had ONE living child, if any. Still...the Force doesn't help him out much there, does it? Oh well...
The appearance of a young Boba Fett (in episode II) was needed to tie into the blood revenge angle of the storyline just like the appearance of Chewbacca was needed in Episode III; however, at no point would it have been kosher to begin Han Solo’s story arc at age ten or so. During this time, Han was raised by space gypsies who had little connection to the plot of Chancellor Palpatine, the senate and the impending “empire”. Han did not meet up with Chewie until his late teens when he helped free the enslaved Wookie from absusive captors.
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My favourite thing is that none of the Jedi sensed it, not even Anikan, who you would have thought would have walked into the room and thought "hang on a sec I sense 4 people in here, but there is only me and padme...".
AND--in a culture that mastered galactic space travel, lightsabers, and really kick-ass prosthetic limbs, a woman doesn't know she's having twins until delivery? Ultrasound, they have not? Skeptical, I am.
Don'y you kinda get the impression R2 was secretly laughing at us all through the original trilogy, he's like "duh, i knew this already" and i think he didn't tell c3po because he knew that he'd blab it everywhere (which he would).
"I saw that, Solo! One more trick like that and you're out of here, brat!" We needed something. Does Lucas not know that Han is the universal favorite? What gives??It didn't even ( ... )
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LOL! I like that idea better.
i think he didn't tell c3po because he knew that he'd blab it everywhere (which he would).
Yeah, probably a good point...though they didn't seem to mind trusting him with the "secret" that Anakin was totally living with a pregnant Naboo chickie.
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Darth Sidious lies and tells the newly risen Darth Vader that in his anger, he killed Padme. Padme was visibly pregnant when that happened. Now we have to buy one of two things:
1. Darth Vader moved on thinking that his unborn child died with Padme and took the discovery of his master's lie completely in stride when Luke shot the tail off his TIE fighter in A New Hope.
2. Darth Vader assumed that after abandoning him to a fiery fate, Obi-Wan took poor, dead Padme away and had the child extracted elsewhere. Then, with the full resources of the Empire behind him and a pretty good understanding of what Jedi get up to when cornered, Darth Vader failed to find his own son.
Oh, and
2a. Mr. Mad Skillz in the Force failed at any time to notice he was the expectanct father of twins or later that Senator Double Cinnamon Bunhead With Attitude bore more than a passing resemblance to his dead wife.
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There were a couple times when I thought Hayden Christensen resembled Luke -- which might be just me looking for such a thing and convincing myself that it was there, but it was a job well done.
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I didn't miss the adolescent whining on either of'm.
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Heehee. I like that.
But yes...as someone else said: how come Vader didn't sense Leia's relation to him, but could sense Luke from like a planet away?
I'm starting to think the only reason they didn't reveal the twins aspect until the birth was so that Vader would only suspect he had ONE living child, if any. Still...the Force doesn't help him out much there, does it? Oh well...
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even more so when obi-wan says, what is it, something almost excactly the same as, "don't go where i can't follow". hehe.
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The appearance of a young Boba Fett (in episode II) was needed to tie into the blood revenge angle of the storyline just like the appearance of Chewbacca was needed in Episode III; however, at no point would it have been kosher to begin Han Solo’s story arc at age ten or so. During this time, Han was raised by space gypsies who had little connection to the plot of Chancellor Palpatine, the senate and the impending “empire”. Han did not meet up with Chewie until his late teens when he helped free the enslaved Wookie from absusive captors.
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