Originally posted by: Cable-X1
That's one of the things I don't like about the ending of ep3. It does end a little too abruptly. The other films allow you to catch your breath after all the action and then they end. Ep3 does slow down, but it throws all this shit at you in those last minutes...way too much shit I might add and then it abruptly ends and connects TOO much with Ep4.
It should have ended the whole PT on a melancholy note with everything tied up but sets up Ep4. Remember there's 20 years in between 3 and 4. The end of 3 should feel like things are gonna be this way for a long time.
I don't know really....not sure I'm articulating this correctly. The ending should have just been done differently, that's all. It doesn't feel right to me.
That's one of the things I don't like about the ending of ep3. It does end a little too abruptly. The other films allow you to catch your breath after all the action and then they end. Ep3 does slow down, but it throws all this shit at you in those last minutes...way too much shit I might add and then it abruptly ends and connects TOO much with Ep4.
It should have ended the whole PT on a melancholy note with everything tied up but sets up Ep4. Remember there's 20 years in between 3 and 4. The end of 3 should feel like things are gonna be this way for a long time.
I don't know really....not sure I'm articulating this correctly. The ending should have just been done differently, that's all. It doesn't feel right to me.
Episode III ending was made by Lucas to be watched as the last episode in the saga, not the third. He even admits in the commentary, "I didn't need to show all the exposition of where everyone goes for the next 20 years, and I almost took it out of the final cut, but I knew people wanted to see it."
He put the DeathStar, Luke/Leia being brought to their homes, and even the construction of Vader in the movie solely cause alot of SW fans who saw it in 2005 would have been pissed if it wasn't shown, but that goes against everything storytelling wise of 1-6. And there lies the problem with trying to make this backstory that should be watched after the OT into a linear story now, Lucas didn't even try to appease the new 1-6 fan, he tried to appease the 4-6,1-3 fan, yet also says at the end of ROTS commentary, "The movies are meant be watched 1-6, and only thought of as one big movie, not 6 individual movies as the 'tragedy of Darth Vader.' That is the problem SW fans face who have seen the OT first, and who see the PT first, its fucked up both ways now.