re: #408 lawhawk

Oh, I enjoyed the eye candy of the early movies - Natalie Portman rates quite highly in my book, and the fight scenes and sfx are awesome, but the story? Samuel L. Jackson ought to have taken his light sabre named bad ass mfer and done in Lucas the moment that it was midichlorians when he had the chance.

He should have taken a pair of pliers and a blowtorch to the damned prophesy that “the one” will bring balance to the force.

The dialog is cringe worthy, but none worse than hearing that Padme lost the frakking will to live.

Lost the will to live? With billions of dollars in medtech available, they can’t sustain her until she realizes that Aniken was bad jobu and that her kids will save the universe from her domestic abusing husband?

It is a world in which they have interstellar faster-than-light travel, but no one realizes a woman is carrying twins until she gives birth.

And the Jedi do not come off looking particularly noble in the second trilogy. Certainly not smart. It’s disappointing. You see them first through Luke’s eyes—they are legendary and special. You see them through middle-aged Lucas’ eyes, and they are selfish, superstitious, not-very-sensitive martial arts experts with an unfathomable degree of social influence who NEVER GO BACK FOR THE KID’S MOTHER and are then surprised when he murders them all in their beds.

I read a fanfic once that suggested a history of sexual abuse first between Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan, and then Obi-Wan and Anakin—well-written—and I actually thought to myself, heh, this guy may understand what’s wrong in Lucas’ universe better than its writer does.