Posted 18 January 2004 - 07:14 PM
i've joined this topic way late, but i'm going in...
firstly, i don't think the stormtroopers where clones, they had too much personality. i think the aonly real connection is the lack of imagination on the part of the empire who ripped the idea off designwise.
as for ewoks, i liked them at first but when it got the battle... i was awfully pieesd off. i mean it was just insulting. it was silly and unplasable, and showing one ewok dying did not adequatley balance the ludicrosity of the scenario. this is how i felt seeing at the movies when i was 7-8 years old. all i cared about was the confrontation between luke and vader at that point in the film.
but comming back to han was never shunned, cause it was HAN for gods' sake!!! i don't care if was reduced to a walking punchline, he was still the testosterone of the trilogy and always welcomed.
let's get back to yoda...
old yoda had warmth to him, new yoda is a know nothing know-it-all! he's always wrong! Qui-gon like his master Doku were right to question him constantly, and no wonder palpy formed the empire!!! I would have too. the darkside wasn't evil it was just an alternative to council of ivory tower janitors who had become intellectually lazy and let the darkside walk all over them and were always taking action too late. too afraid of anger and not nearly afraid enough of growing stagnent and irrisponsible in their duty of KNOWING WHAT'S GOING ON!!!
but getting back to the point: old yoda had more affection to him, and as for "his species" ???? i thought he was human... "when 900 years old you reach, look as good you will not, hmm?"
at 90 alot of people shrink and there ears keep growing, at 900 i'm sure greenness isn't to far behind...
and now to Obi-wan, I have to back him up, I would have lied to. "a remarkable pilot and a friend." is a much nicer thing to say to an orphened boy than "an insufferable prat, who whinged about everything, stretched out jokes untill they wern't funny, had a creepy appraoch to flirting, never listened to a word i said until i got fed up and pushed him into a pit of molten steel! now, would you like to hear about your mother who was the kind of bimbo who went out with the nutlicker?"
as for seperating the two characters... Vader was a much more loveable incarnation.