Disjointed Star Wars thoughts
May. 31st, 2005 03:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
logicbuttonI saw it last night, in English. My movie theater is cool.
Padme wasn't interesting. Padme, why weren't you interesting? You totally should have been. Instead, you said a bunch of stupid stuff, by which I mean you had almost no lines at all. My theory on this was that the writers got to the point where they introduced her, looked around at each other and said, "uh...what do women say?"
When the Wookies all showed up and stormed that one place, my male companion burst into laughter and described it as "an army of teddy bears." Best. Description. Of Wookies. Ever.
Regarding General Grievous--dude, somebody has not been reading the Evil Overlord list.
Also regarding General Grievous, when Obi Wan shot him in his exposed heart and he burst into flame, I totally thought, "Ha ha! That's one bad case of heartburn!" Fortunately, this line was not in the movie.
Anakin and Padme had no chemistry whatsoever. This was probably what hurt the movie most, because all those times when Anakin was talking about how he was going to go to the dark side to save her and that he loved her so much, the driving force of the plot doncha know, all I could think was, "I don't believe you."
When Yoda was all gobsmacked by the deaths of Mace Windu etc., my most prevalent thought (and I was so wonderfully tickled to see that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
octopedingenue thought this too) was that Yoda was the most expressive character in the movie. And I continued to think that through the end. Yoda rocks.
So you know when Yoda and Palpatine had that showdown, and Yoda escaped, and later Palpatine was asking that other dude whether they had found Yoda's body, and he said no, and that other other dude said, "Then he is still alive"? "Finally," I thought, "someone who's read the Evil Overlord list!" (How ironic that this should be the rare universe in which it is possible to disappear when you die.)
Agreeing with the "She dies? WTF?" My female companion and I had a discussion a couple weeks ago about how they would handle Padme living in hiding with Leia while Luke was taken away, while keeping all of this (including the fact that there were two babies) a secret from Darth Vader. I guess it makes sense that Leia might have thought her adoptive mother was her birth mother, but that cheapens it somewhat--thinking that Padme was the one she described as "beautiful, but sad" added to Padme's character. And frankly, Padme could have used the characterization boost.
In conclusion, I miss Luke and Leia.
Padme wasn't interesting. Padme, why weren't you interesting? You totally should have been. Instead, you said a bunch of stupid stuff, by which I mean you had almost no lines at all. My theory on this was that the writers got to the point where they introduced her, looked around at each other and said, "uh...what do women say?"
When the Wookies all showed up and stormed that one place, my male companion burst into laughter and described it as "an army of teddy bears." Best. Description. Of Wookies. Ever.
Regarding General Grievous--dude, somebody has not been reading the Evil Overlord list.
Also regarding General Grievous, when Obi Wan shot him in his exposed heart and he burst into flame, I totally thought, "Ha ha! That's one bad case of heartburn!" Fortunately, this line was not in the movie.
Anakin and Padme had no chemistry whatsoever. This was probably what hurt the movie most, because all those times when Anakin was talking about how he was going to go to the dark side to save her and that he loved her so much, the driving force of the plot doncha know, all I could think was, "I don't believe you."
When Yoda was all gobsmacked by the deaths of Mace Windu etc., my most prevalent thought (and I was so wonderfully tickled to see that
octopedingenue thought this too) was that Yoda was the most expressive character in the movie. And I continued to think that through the end. Yoda rocks.So you know when Yoda and Palpatine had that showdown, and Yoda escaped, and later Palpatine was asking that other dude whether they had found Yoda's body, and he said no, and that other other dude said, "Then he is still alive"? "Finally," I thought, "someone who's read the Evil Overlord list!" (How ironic that this should be the rare universe in which it is possible to disappear when you die.)
Agreeing with the "She dies? WTF?" My female companion and I had a discussion a couple weeks ago about how they would handle Padme living in hiding with Leia while Luke was taken away, while keeping all of this (including the fact that there were two babies) a secret from Darth Vader. I guess it makes sense that Leia might have thought her adoptive mother was her birth mother, but that cheapens it somewhat--thinking that Padme was the one she described as "beautiful, but sad" added to Padme's character. And frankly, Padme could have used the characterization boost.
In conclusion, I miss Luke and Leia.
