My spoiler-free review of Episode III

[swifteagle]

Pretty good. Not amazingly great, but solid and enjoyable. Almost certainly the strongest and most consistent of the prequels

Comments

[albino_raven]

hello. My friend and I have been having a petty argument for some time now about your hampster mood things, and I was hoping you could clear things up. Is the hampster wearing a dress, or does it have a pillow (or neither)?
Thanks,
~albino_raven

[swifteagle]

Nope, it just has a chubby squishy hamster body.

[albino_raven]

ok, thanks. :)

[tikistitch]

R2: kewlest droid EVAH!

Did you also catch Obi-Wan riding his low price point accessory? That one was too blatant for us.

Also, not enough WOOKIEES!! We're hoping Lucas will do an extra-special 3-hour version for the DVD.

[swifteagle]

Yeah, there definitely needed to be more Wookiees, although I understand the need to keep the Kashyyyk scenes from being just a rehash of Endor.

Re: low price point accessory...do you mean the lizard, Boga? If so, it definitely needed more screen-time to feel like anything other than a toy plug. In fact, when we saw some clips from the movie last year, one of the scenes (I think it was just animatics, no actual footage) was of Obi-Wan taming her. It would have gone a long way toward fleshing things out.

[tikistitch]

"Chewbacca, miss you, I will." Sure, after a full THREE MINUTES of screen time. You heard there were plans to do a l'il Han Solo as well? Ack!

Yuppers, Boga. I kinda liked the "Obi-Wan as cowboy" dealie they had going there, but it just wasn't onscreen long enough to keep us from groaning at stacks of them at Toys R Us.

[swifteagle]

I did hear about Han being in an early script, but don't know any details. Was he just going to be a little Tarzan of the Wookiees running around the forest, or what?

I wonder why he was cut, and whether it would have been a cute inclusion or horribly fannish.