One of the cable stations was running a Star Wars marathon here a few weeks ago and I caught bits and pieces of the prequels. Anakin accidentally destroying a huge ass trade federation ship while highly trained pilots can barely save themselves is insulting on so many levels.
I think Lucas forgot he was writing the story of a great hero, so that his ultimate fall to the dark side would be an epic tragedy, and instead was obsessed with foreshadowing the fact he would ultimately fall to the dark side, thereby making him a whiny, creepy, psychotic, mass-murdering stalker. You guys think Twilight sets a bad example of romance? Oy.
WORD. Though an argument could be made that George just has no clue how to create romance and therefore should, by law, be prohibited from ever writing it. This is the man who allowed a brother and sister to makeout in order to make her future husband jealous. So Anakin being the poster boy for stalkers and Padme thinking it's cute is not so surprising. Wanna bet 'Every Breath You Take' was their song?
I've always believed that Lucas was so hell bent on creating another trilogy he was incapable of realizing he could have told his story in two films. You'd be hard pressed to find anyone in fandom willing to argue we needed to see a ten year old Anakin. And while I completely agree with you that most of 'Attack of the Clones' is pointless, Lucas seemed to see it as the middle of a giant epic and therefore it didn't need to work on it's own, which might be OK for TV, but not for film.
"You were my brother, Anakin. I loved you," should have broken my heart. But I find it hard to find a single moment in these films where I genuinely felt that Obi Wan and Anakin were brothers.
I never felt a brother vibe. Qui Gon died and Obi Wan stepped in as mentor and (sort of) father figure. To be brothers there would have had to been some equal footing and there never was.
And can someone explain to me how Padme and Anakin's marriage could have been a secret? When not doing their jobs, they were together. At night. And no one ever questioned who knocked her up? Was the empire gossip free? Did a room full of Jedis fail to sense Anakin's impure thoughts???
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Date: 2010-04-05 03:24 am (UTC)One of the cable stations was running a Star Wars marathon here a few weeks ago and I caught bits and pieces of the prequels. Anakin accidentally destroying a huge ass trade federation ship while highly trained pilots can barely save themselves is insulting on so many levels.
I think Lucas forgot he was writing the story of a great hero, so that his ultimate fall to the dark side would be an epic tragedy, and instead was obsessed with foreshadowing the fact he would ultimately fall to the dark side, thereby making him a whiny, creepy, psychotic, mass-murdering stalker. You guys think Twilight sets a bad example of romance? Oy.
WORD. Though an argument could be made that George just has no clue how to create romance and therefore should, by law, be prohibited from ever writing it. This is the man who allowed a brother and sister to makeout in order to make her future husband jealous. So Anakin being the poster boy for stalkers and Padme thinking it's cute is not so surprising. Wanna bet 'Every Breath You Take' was their song?
I've always believed that Lucas was so hell bent on creating another trilogy he was incapable of realizing he could have told his story in two films. You'd be hard pressed to find anyone in fandom willing to argue we needed to see a ten year old Anakin. And while I completely agree with you that most of 'Attack of the Clones' is pointless, Lucas seemed to see it as the middle of a giant epic and therefore it didn't need to work on it's own, which might be OK for TV, but not for film.
"You were my brother, Anakin. I loved you," should have broken my heart. But I find it hard to find a single moment in these films where I genuinely felt that Obi Wan and Anakin were brothers.
I never felt a brother vibe. Qui Gon died and Obi Wan stepped in as mentor and (sort of) father figure. To be brothers there would have had to been some equal footing and there never was.
And can someone explain to me how Padme and Anakin's marriage could have been a secret? When not doing their jobs, they were together. At night. And no one ever questioned who knocked her up? Was the empire gossip free? Did a room full of Jedis fail to sense Anakin's impure thoughts???
WHY ARE YOU MAKING ME THINK ABOUT THIS?!?!!?!