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#226 User is offline   Just another wretched fan Icon

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Posted 10 July 2005 - 10:51 PM

when we were walking out of the theaters, we were saying "why order 66?"

"why not order 666? or 69? or 911? or 411?"

"what if order 65 was for like a basic maneouvre and the guy screwed up and said

'execute order 66, whoops i mean 65, sorry guys' isn't that a little risky?"

What if Commander Cody wrote down "order 99" but held it upside down? Sidious would be screwed then. Sigh.


Anyway, the Old Republic definately didn't have a post-Sept. 11th security mindset. Hell, we're so paranoid about safety here we don't want the Chinese to buy Unocal.
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Posted 11 July 2005 - 08:26 AM

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91 Reasons to Hate Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith


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Posted 11 July 2005 - 08:40 AM

QUOTE (Lord Melkor @ Jul 8 2005, 06:59 PM)
I think those are the best so far Chefelf. But what do you think about Palpatine's manipulations in ROTJ?


I think they're equally as poor. Except you get the feeling that Luke was never in danger of falling for them.
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Posted 11 July 2005 - 08:55 AM

Reason #53

How do we know its the same Commander Cody? They're clones, maybe they all have the same rank, the same appearance and the same name!?

Then again, maybe not.
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Posted 11 July 2005 - 11:51 AM

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This would indeed make sense if it had happened gradually over the years between the PT and OT. However, it doesn't explain why his face ages immediately, and leaves him looking even worse than he did in the OT!


Sorry I should have written that better. That's what I meant to say. The Darkside drained him through the years and years of extensive spiritual exposure to it. At least the explanation in the Darkhorse comics and I think a couple of the novels. It wasn't an immediate thing, like it was in ROTS.

Edit: Though I fully agree that Lucas ignored the previous EU explanation and wanted Palpatines scarring to be due to the lightning, it doesn't explain the suddenly rotting teeth of Palpatine. What's that all about?

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Posted 11 July 2005 - 01:38 PM

Chef, I think these are your best yet! Excellent! Just excellent!

And, I too, always thought that Palpatine's appearance was a gradual deterioration of his physical form over time as he used the Darkside of the Force. Again, Lucas exercising a lack of subtlety. I thought he was attempting that a little in AOTC with Palpatine looking older than he does in TPM; age spots and all. Interestingly enough, ROTS Palpatine looks younger than he does in AOTC; no age spots.

Of course, the explanationist would say, "that's because he's using the Dark side to make himself younger..." Really? Then he could do some of that Force-comestics on himself after Windu's attack and look young again, right?

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Posted 11 July 2005 - 02:40 PM

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Younglings
Why, all of a sudden, are the Jedi children called "younglings?" Replacing the word "younglings" with the word "Padawans" or, even more simply, "children" would have made this ten minute segment of the movie infinitely more tolerable. Instead, we get about five "youngling bombs" dropped on us by Yoda, Obi-Wan and Padme, rapid-fire. Calling them younglings conjures up images of baby trees. It also makes everyone seem like an old geezer. Why not just call them "small fries" or "whippersnappers." "Oh Anakin. Obi-Wan told me terrible things. He said you killed sprouts!"

"Padme! It's all lies. Obi-Wan lies! I would never kill ankle biters! It's not the Jedi way!"

Or 'sprogs' or 'brats' or 'kiddies' or...

But seriously, I don't get this one either. Why not just call them 'children' like any normal person? I could understand Yoda calling them 'younglings' occasionally, as his speech is strange anyway, but now it seems to have become the official term for Jedi children (or even all children; it's hard to tell). It certainly makes lines like 'Not even the younglings survived' very hard to take seriously.

'Not even the whippersnappers survived.' Now that would be a line worth seeing the film for. biggrin.gif
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The sandpeople had women and children. We know this because Anakin killed them how could he tell? The children might be smaller but I never saw a sandperson with breasts. Did they hike their skirts and show him some leg or something?

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Also, I can see the point of wanting to kidnap a human and use her as a slave, but they didn't. They tied her to a flimsy easel for a month. It's assumed they had to feed and give her water. What for? Was she purely ornamental? I can understand them wanting the droids, you can sell those for a lot of money, but a chick who's only skills are finding non-existand mushrooms and getting randomly pregnant, you're not going to get much.

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Posted 11 July 2005 - 02:59 PM

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I feel sorry for anyone who chose that two minute stretch to use the rest room.


I went to the restroom during that scene. When I returned I asked my friend what happened and he was like: ''Anakin turned to the dark side'' and I was like ''What the hell?''.

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Posted 11 July 2005 - 05:18 PM

QUOTE (diligent_d @ Jul 11 2005, 01:51 PM)
Sorry I should have written that better.  That's what I meant to say.  The Darkside drained him through the years and years of extensive spiritual exposure to it.  At least the explanation in the Darkhorse comics and I think a couple of the novels.  It wasn't an immediate thing, like it was in ROTS.

Edit:  Though I fully agree that Lucas ignored the previous EU explanation and wanted Palpatines scarring to be due to the lightning, it doesn't explain the suddenly rotting teeth of Palpatine.  What's that all about?


Teeth explanation:
It was a seriously damaged mouth before the prequels bicouse of palpatine's tendencies to eat fast food and candies in the theaters an operas he visited so often.
then, with the electric shocks, all the theeth's metal implants and cosmetic reparations gone melted, that is. ohmy.gif
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Posted 11 July 2005 - 05:43 PM

why not order one?
(I mean, we are talkin about secretive orders here, or the jedi would have suspected: hey! there is an order here to kill us all)
It's not the primary objetive of the siths to kill the jedis? what are the previous orders?
order 1: Buy the "Official guide to give stupid names to the new sith knights."
order 2: memorise the guide.
order 5: Get tickets for the next freaky Opera show. Don't forget the donuts.
order 13: massage Commander cody's back.
order 33: build another Deathstar, just in case.
order 45: send strippers to seduce the jedis.
order 65: send sleabogano(?) to tempt the jedis with Death Sticks (we allready watched the poor execution of that one)
Then order 66? nonsense.

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Posted 11 July 2005 - 11:24 PM

LOL!!!

order 1: Buy the "Official guide to give stupid names to the new sith knights."

I want that book!!
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Posted 12 July 2005 - 11:56 AM

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Anakin Succumbs to the Dark Side
Anakin, being a Grade A doofus, decides that he must save Palpatine from the clutches of the vile Jedi MACE WINDU! So he chops off Windu's hand and has Palpatine blast him to death with some more of that sweet, sweet Force lightning. He does this for two reasons: 1) He wishes to have Palpatine stand trial and 2) He wants to learn the secrets of keeping people alive so that Padme won't die. However, reason number one goes out the window (along with Mace Windu) as soon as he chops of Mace's hand. In the course of two minutes, Anakin has gone from the Jedi who wants to turn in Palpatine and bring him to trial to surrendering to Palpatine, becoming his apprentice and slaughtering a room full of children. I feel sorry for anyone who chose that two minute stretch to use the rest room.


Even if the rest of the movie was great, this alone would sink it.
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Posted 13 July 2005 - 12:10 PM

QUOTE (Helena @ Jul 11 2005, 07:40 PM)
Or 'sprogs' or 'brats' or 'kiddies' or...

But seriously, I don't get this one either. Why not just call them 'children' like any normal person? I could understand Yoda calling them 'younglings' occasionally, as his speech is strange anyway, but now it seems to have become the official term for Jedi children (or even all children; it's hard to tell). It certainly makes lines like 'Not even the younglings survived' very hard to take seriously.

'Not even the whippersnappers survived.' Now that would be a line worth seeing the film for. biggrin.gif

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Posted 13 July 2005 - 12:15 PM

Reason 59

For me, Peter Bradshaw in the Guardian Newspaper captures how really stupid this scene was:

"So why does Anakin desert the forces of light? It is his passionate love and concern for his pregnant wife, Princess Amidala, coupled with a sense of his own slighted dignity that are to be the tragic and fateful factors leading to the most unconvincing evil act you can imagine, an event weirdly neutralised by the bloodless unreality that surrounds everything. The vicious Anakin massacres - oh, horror! - a bunch of innocent Jedi children.

But that is not how Lucas's solemnly high-flown script chooses to refer to them. With sub-Shakespearian gravitas, McGregor intones: "Not even the younglings survived." I'm sorry, not even the what? Is that their surname or something? Are Mr and Mrs Youngling going to come home to find a nursery bloodbath?"
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Posted 14 July 2005 - 01:02 AM

QUOTE (julie123 @ Jul 13 2005, 10:15 AM)
But that is not how Lucas's solemnly high-flown script chooses to refer to them. With sub-Shakespearian gravitas, McGregor intones: "Not even the younglings survived." I'm sorry, not even the what? Is that their surname or something? Are Mr and Mrs Youngling going to come home to find a nursery bloodbath?"


Oh, beautiful. Thank you, Peter Bradshaw, that was perfect.
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