Yeah, I liked Episode III as well. I find it vying for 3rd place in my hierarchy of awesome. As much as I love Jedi, a lot of that is out of nostalgia. Jedi contains both my favourite and least favourite scenes of the saga. Anyhow, on to Hot Rod. Yeah, I know Sidious had the droid army of the SEPERATISTS deactivated. That does not explain why such an effective weapon was never used by any other parties in the OT, like say, I dunno, the Rebel Alliance, or the empire. Seems to me that such a weapon would have been pretty nice to have. It's just more evidence that George is not terribly good at reverse engineering his saga.