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Post #151876

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InfoDroid
Parent topic
Episode II: Shroud of the Dark Side (the TM edit) (Released)
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Date created
1-Nov-2005, 2:08 PM
After watching AOTC again, I noticed that a lot of work needs to be done to maintain the original character of Yoda. I'm really hoping you'll be paying attention to these problems in your project, Trooperman. To date, all other editors have overlooked or ignored these instances.

Particularly, "Around the survivors a perimeter make" just doesn't sound right. It sounds like they tried too hard to make Yoda sound like Yoda and they failed. "To the forward command center take me" mmmiiiight pass. I don't know.

The "Warm feelings to my heart" line is completely out of character. Why do they try to make him so cutesy? So they can sell dolls? The whole character of Yoda is interesting because although he looks like a cute, little frog-thing, he's really just a cranky old man. And they've killed that with lines like this and the Younglings scene.

Which brings me to the other thing that definitely needs to go, which is the "Truly wonderful the mind of a child. (snicker, snicker)" The scene would work much better with Yoda retaining his serious demeanor and simply cutting to him saying "The Padawan is right."

And at the END! The horribly botched ending! When Yoda shows up with the clones to save the day, it should be an emotional equivalent to when Han Solo reappeared with the Falcon to save Luke at the end of ANH. Why didn't we hear a big, triumphant rendition of Yoda's theme during that scene? Or at least the Force theme??? It should have made us clap and cheer!!! Instead we said, "Oh... Yoda. Of course. When is this crap gonna be over?"

And in closing let me just stress again the importance, value, and downright dire need of a complete and total overhaul of the music. Watching it again, the music for this film is so bad... it... it actually makes me angry.

Anyway, this Yoda stuff is something I didn't really remember as being a problem, but watching it with editing in mind, it sticks out like a sore thumb.