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Post #115417

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Neojedi
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Anakin & Obi-Wan: The Friendship We Never Really Saw
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15-Jun-2005, 10:05 AM
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Originally posted by: Master Sifo-Dyas
Yes, I was thinking the same thing the other day. A lot of time in "Revenge of the Sith" is actually occupied with last minute attempts to finally show the deep friendship they were supposed to have, which left much too less time for a plausible fall of a hero, because it's just too abrupt and the audience has to buy into the 'forced to turn evil to get the only chance to save padme' thing. I also wonder what kind of revenge there was to see in the film - especially in the light of understanding it as anakin's revenge (in analogy to the jedi's (anakin's) return in RotJ).


The Sith got revenge by destroying the Jedi and taking power. The problem is that in none of the prequels does Lucas ever explain what the Sith are or why they want revenge on the Jedi. We just get the standard cop-out that the Jedi are good and the Sith are evil. It's like a James Bond flick, we are told the bad guy is evil, but we never find out why he lives alone underwater, or where he got all his money from, or why he wants to destroy the world except that he lusts after power. If we want any background on the villain, we've got to read the expanded universe novels, which pretty much means that the movies are dependent upon the expanded universe, at least they are if the viewer want's more than a special effects thrill ride.