http://filmjournal.net/mike/2007/05/31/star-wars-at-30-the-revenge-begins/ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:18:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.0 http://filmjournal.net/mike/2007/05/31/star-wars-at-30-the-revenge-begins/#comment-13368 Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:20:58 +0000 http://filmjournal.net/mike/2007/05/31/star-wars-at-30-the-revenge-begins/#comment-13368 [...] And you’re telling me that the woman who led the assault on Naboo, and who helped the Jedi in their tussle with the droids at Geonosis, dies in childbirth? Of a broken heart, you say? It all sounds very far fetched, even in a galaxy far, far away. You’re asked to accept a lot of plot holes in ROTS, from Anakin’s rather easy conversion to the Dark Side, through to three of Mace Windu’s Jedi Master pals being dispatched with a growl and a summary stabbing motion by Palpatine. It’s a sin that Count Dooku - effortlessly the best thing in Attack of the Clones - is offed almost as soon as he appears. Similarly General Grievous gets handed his cards way too quickly. Anyone who’s seen the superior Clone Wars series will have been given the impression he’s far too powerful to be bumped off after a brief playground scrap with Obi-Wan, yet that’s what happens. Then there’s the whole muddled ending - couldn’t Kenobi have put poor Anakin out of his misery as he’s slowly turned into toast? Certainly by a Jedi’s standards, leaving him to fry seems rather cruel, even if killing him would have left a fair amount to explain between episodes three and four. I’m sure Sidious could have brought him back to life, or something, especially after he delivered that yarn about the Sith Lord who could do just that earlier in ROTS. How ironic would that have been, considering what he tells his charge about Padme? Also, why does Yoda just tittle off to Dagobah? He gives up a bit easily, after more than matching the Emperor in that battle of the force… [...] […] And you’re telling me that the woman who led the assault on Naboo, and who helped the Jedi in their tussle with the droids at Geonosis, dies in childbirth? Of a broken heart, you say? It all sounds very far fetched, even in a galaxy far, far away. You’re asked to accept a lot of plot holes in ROTS, from Anakin’s rather easy conversion to the Dark Side, through to three of Mace Windu’s Jedi Master pals being dispatched with a growl and a summary stabbing motion by Palpatine. It’s a sin that Count Dooku - effortlessly the best thing in Attack of the Clones - is offed almost as soon as he appears. Similarly General Grievous gets handed his cards way too quickly. Anyone who’s seen the superior Clone Wars series will have been given the impression he’s far too powerful to be bumped off after a brief playground scrap with Obi-Wan, yet that’s what happens. Then there’s the whole muddled ending - couldn’t Kenobi have put poor Anakin out of his misery as he’s slowly turned into toast? Certainly by a Jedi’s standards, leaving him to fry seems rather cruel, even if killing him would have left a fair amount to explain between episodes three and four. I’m sure Sidious could have brought him back to life, or something, especially after he delivered that yarn about the Sith Lord who could do just that earlier in ROTS. How ironic would that have been, considering what he tells his charge about Padme? Also, why does Yoda just tittle off to Dagobah? He gives up a bit easily, after more than matching the Emperor in that battle of the force… […]

]]> http://filmjournal.net/mike/2007/05/31/star-wars-at-30-the-revenge-begins/#comment-3782 Sun, 24 Jun 2007 17:08:28 +0000 http://filmjournal.net/mike/2007/05/31/star-wars-at-30-the-revenge-begins/#comment-3782 [...] A quick shout out also for the Clone Wars cartoons, which on a miniscule budget next to the movies somehow turned out to be entirely at home with their more illustrious companions. Genndy Tartakovsky really ought to get back to wrapping up Samurai Jack, but in the meantime this more than does, a glance at each principal’s part in the war that moves at breakneck speed and shows just why the Jedi are guardians of the Old Republic. [...] […] A quick shout out also for the Clone Wars cartoons, which on a miniscule budget next to the movies somehow turned out to be entirely at home with their more illustrious companions. Genndy Tartakovsky really ought to get back to wrapping up Samurai Jack, but in the meantime this more than does, a glance at each principal’s part in the war that moves at breakneck speed and shows just why the Jedi are guardians of the Old Republic. […]

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