HBO was showing Star Wars - Episode III: Revenge of the Sith last month and it got me thinking. The whole Saga and some of the story still doesn't make sense to me and leaves a few unanswered questions. I didn't notice these things so much when I saw it in the theater, but after watching it a bunch of times now, I've come up with these questions/statements:
Before I begin...................I'd like to day that whoever thought Jar Jar Binks was a good idea should be taken out back, beaten to just before death, nursed back to health then shot in the face with a sawed off riffle at close range.
......................and now, on with the rambling list:
- Episode I - The Phantom Menace was a good movie, but it moved along slowly. I understand that they needed to introduce a lot of characters and a huge story line, so I cut it a lot of slack.
- Why did Darth Maul die so quickly? I thnk they should have made him more of a central character than Count Dooku. Maul was much more evil than Dooku. I think Dooku they should have told the part of the story where he was a part of the Jedi councel, then have everyone find out that he was a Sith Lord.
- Since Episode III is so fresh in my head, I have to most questions about this one. How does the Jedi Councel not know that Anakin is married, or at the very least involved with Padme'? The most obvious clue should be that he isn't in the Jedi Temple every night! No one askes where he is or tries to find him?
- I can understand that when Anakin has the preminitions about Padme' dying during child birth, he wants to do whatever needs to be done to save her life. My problem is with the scene where he stops Master Windu from killing Chancellor Palpatine, and then watches Windu be thrown out of the window by Palpatine. Anakin immediately regrets his decision and says, "What have I done?", then just bows to Palpatine and becomes Darth Vader. THEN he is just willing to go and kill all the Jedi (including the younglings as Yoda calls them) and does it with no emotion. This makes no sense to me. How can he go from regretting his decision of allowing the Chancellor to live, to helping him kill every single Jedi within a matter of three minutes? No remorse, no internal conflict. NOTHING!
- The next scene shows Anakin running up to Padme', so happy to see her and explains to her that the Jedi are trying to take over control of the Senate. Anakin turns and see's Obi-Wan Kenobi walking off the ship and then yells at Padme' about how he's been betrayed by her, and immediately tries to kill her by using the death grip! He then proceeds have a LightSaber battle with Obi-Wan, with the intent on killing him. If his whole purpose for joining the "DarkSide" is to save Padme' from dying, why does he try to kill her? Once he thinks she's betrayed him and chokes her, why continue? This part bothers me.
- Once Padme' has Luke and Leia, she just gives up and dies. As the droid says, "She's perfectly healthy.............but has lost the will to live". She just gave birth to two kids and she has no reason to live? Lame, lame, lame, lame, LAME!! (I wish I could find the sound clip form "The Incredibles")
- I know that C3-PO's memory is erased, but R2-D2's isn't! Why doesn't he tell everyone about the babies and that Luke is Vader's son??!?!?
- Lastly............Chewbacca obviously takes part in the clone war and meets Yoda. Once he and Han Solo pick up Luke and Obi-Wan in Episode IV, why doesn't he say to Han, "Hey, I've had experience with these Jedi's before."
That's all I can think of at the moment. Of course now I guess I'm being picky with those last two. I guess the story wouldn't work as well if those two questions were answered. Plus since Episodes IV, V and VI came first and that would have ruined the whole thing..............but I just felt the need to get them off my chest. Please don't think that I don't enjoy the whole Saga, because I do. I own the original three on VHS, bought them again when the Special Edition came out..................then all six on DVD.
Anyone else have more to add to this, or an explaination of any of my issues?
11 comments:
jar jar sucks and that's why he wasn't really in the rest. i don't think he would have been so bad if he didn't have that annoying fucking voice and accent. ARGH!
anakin is a pussy and that's why. he feels like he can't take back what he's done or allowed to happen and no one will ever forgive him. plus, he thinks padme is dead- and once he thinks that, he has nothing "good" to live for anymore. so he becomes evil. once again= pussy.
good god- do you want me to ask someone here?? cause i will
I am with you on number four. He turned way too easy. Another thing that gets me is in Episode three, Luke asks Leia if she remembers her real mother and she tells him that the only thing that she remembers is that she was very sad. She was just an infant. How could she remember?
Those babies were awfully big for premature twins…
I always thought Anakin went to the dark side WAY too quickly, too.
I am a Star Trek fan and never was that big on Star Wars except for the first two movies. Cool ships though.
You know I'm totally with you on all of these as we have talked about it in LENGTH more times than it's probably is warented. But IT PISSES ME OFF TOO!!! ALL oF them.
And WHY doesn't Obi Wan finish the job of Anakin by the lava? He lets him catch on fire and then walks away? "I have a gun IN MY ROOM" Just kill him! "What? I'm gonna leave before they're dead and just asume it all went as planned...what?"
P.S. I TOTALLY got the Incredible's quote before I read it....cause I'm your wife and I know you THAT well. =oX
And who is Jennster asking?
i can not comment about this as i dont like starwars!
GASP!
Anakin would have kicked Darth Mauls ass. It would have been great if they could have fought.
I think the fact that Anakin had been off fighting the Clone Wars was a major factor in hiding his relationship with Padme. Until of course, she began to show her “belly.” Master Yoda should have felt a disturbance in the force…especially with the tiny twins.
Anakin’s internal conflict had been raging since, I believe, he slaughtered the sand people on Tatooine. That was a turning point on his path to the dark side. He was so in with the Chancellor that once he realized what he had done with Mace, and the fact that his wife would die, and the Emperor had the “power to save Pademe,” Anakin had no choice but to bow and submit to the darkside. He was a fugitive from the so-called “rebelling Jedi” anyways, so why not go off and kill them all. Anakin had always been in conflict, because he was so attached to his mommie. Since Anakin is in the dark side, his lust for power had no limits.
As for Anakin’s dark side turn, the woman he loved “betrayed him,” and he tried to strangle her with the force, he was again at the point of no return, with passion and fear and anger and aggression as his ally. He had lost so much, might as well take it as far as possible.
Padme in Sith was a shadow of her former character in Episodes I and II. She was a strong character…someone with skills and a fighter. In Episode III she was a cowering, irritating, annoying preggers lady. That she died of a broken heart was indeed stupid…but I guess it’s feasible, since Anakin’s desire to rule the galaxy was against her beliefs, and it was so shocking to her … plus he tried to strangle her. Couple that with the birth of the fatty twins and I can see how it would kill her. Lol
R2 is a foul-mouth know-it-all. He does know everything and that is what makes him so cool. Nobody asks him, and he’s not one to offer up information willingly. I think R2 is smart enough to know the danger the twins would be in if Vader found out they were alive. If R2 had his way, he would spray oil all over Vader and then light the sith on fire with his rocket jets!
Han and Chewie probably talked in the past about Jedi…but Han being Han, all that hokey religion and ancient weapons means nothin’ to him. Plus the Jedi are supposedly dead, and an old man running around with bratty, whiney Luke, brandishing a lightsaber, means nothing when one can score some credits to pay off Jabba the Hutt.
Jennster - Anakin was a pussy, I agree, but he thinks Padme' is alive. He even says it to the Chancellor just after he puts on the helmet.
Fuzz - Good point about Leia. She was like 37 seconds old!!
Kath - Yes they were to big, but that's the movies for ya!
Mark - Live long and prosper.
Babe - Obi-Wan told Yoda that he couldn't kill Anakin, so if he died from the lava burns, it wouldn't be on his conscience.
Becky - OMG!! Don't ever post here again!!! This is not the blog you're looking for!! ;op
RUSS - Got some insight into this, do ya? I agree that Anakin was in conflict since he killed the sand people, I'll give you that. I still think he went way to easily!I'll also agree with you that Padme' was not as strong as she was in I & II, and that Yoda should have felt the presence of the force in the twins.
I was raised on the Wars, as my mom loves them and took me and the fam to see them in the drive-in
i have the origional trilogy commited to memory, music cues and all
i win star wars trivia on my first turn
i hold my head down in shame
The funny thing about Jar Jar binks is that Lucas was so sure that he would become a huge hit after the movie was released that he licensed piles of Jar Jar binks merchandise. All of this stuff is now rotting in landfill on Tattoine.
The Star Wars prequels were rife with poor choices. You hit the Darth Maul thing right on the head. Lucas created this great, scary character, gave him about 2-3 minutes of screen time and killed him off.
I lost interest in Star Wars long before the new movies came out, so I never saw them. Like Mark, I'm a Star Trek fan, instead.
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