SPOILER thread

[jchrisobrien]

I tried to keep my last entry spoiler free.  If you want to talk about anything from Ep 3, you can comment here.  Fair warning, there will be spoilers aplenty, so don't read if you haven't seen it (or you just don't care).

Comments

[captain-grim.livejournal.com]

Ok I saw it yesterday.

Action and lasers and more lightsaber battles than you can shake a stick at. Hooray!

I think that Hayden did a good job...really agree that there was some maturity on his part.

Ewan's the man!

I did not like:

Padme sitting back for the whole movie and crying. That really struck me as against the whole Star Wars ideal of strong women taking charge, which we've seen in most of the movies until this point.

The giant ham-faced Palpatine. He becomes a silly grotesque Muppet after a while... the cackle gets tiresome.

I had to laugh at the cheesy-ness of the Vader transformation scene:

Vader: Yo, where my baby mama at?
Palpatine: You killed her or some shit, dawg.
Vader: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
(Room shakes, stuff breaks).
Palpatine: You need to CHILL, my man. Have a shot of Henny.

I mean, COME ON. That was worse than Kirk's "KAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHN!" in Star Trek 2.

All in all, I enjoyed it and would like to see it again soon, but I left feeling slightly disappointed.

[silas7.livejournal.com]

Padme got the short end of the stick. I guess there's not a lot of room for action when you're pregnant. At least you know from the first few movies that she can kick some ass. She was definitely underused, and was just weepy when she was there.

It was a little silly seeing a muppet fight an old man, but overall I liked the throwdown between Yoda and Sidious. The way Yoda contemptuously took out the guards? awesome.

I didn't like the ending with Vader either. Heatray said that Star Wars is rooted in the pulp genre, and that ending was very appropriate to the pulp era. I can accept that, but it still rubbs me the wrong way.

Now if Vader had screamed KAAAAAAAAHHHHHNNNNN, THAT would have been hella sweet.

[captain-grim.livejournal.com]

I have to say that I really like the political aspects of the movie. Lucas and Stoppard obviously put in lines like "My resolve has never been stronger" and "This is how democracy dies" as a push again W. Good for them.

I think that there needs to be a Star Trek/Wars comic crossover. Yoda and Spock would be able to kick some Dark Side ass.