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Post #331499

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C3PX
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My Review of the Force Unleashed plot based on the graphic novel (SPOILERS WARNING I SPOIL THE PLOT)
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24-Sep-2008, 5:11 PM

I watched the Youtube videos all the way through. I have to admit, it was very interesting and well done. The story was far better than the PT. Still a lot of things about it that sucked. I found the whole Palpatine "creatiing the Rebellion thing" not to be as far fetched as it immediately sounds. He was simply trying to get all his enemies in one place. I still think it is kind of silly and shrinks the galaxy even more. Even less likely is that the Rebellion would have taken 18 years to begin. I also never imagined it taking that long for Darth Vader and Palpatine to hunt down the Jedi and destroy them, as there are quite a few of them left at the beginning of this story which takes place only two years before Star Wars.

Proxy was also a dumb idea, we always see holograms as very transparent and not making perfect images, and yet Proxy can make himself look like anybody perfectly. Seems like these droids would have been used by the empire to dispatch and replace important figures in the Rebellion to bring it down faster.

I did like younger Leia making an appearance, that was pretty cool.

Biggest problem with the whole thing is the existance of another "choosen one-uber powerful-Jedi wunderkind" Was he concieved by midiclorines as well? Why was this little kid so unbelievably powerful? And why did Vader train him all that time, and bother lying to him about bringing down the Emporer only to have him create a Rebel Alliance.

In the end, I would have much rather had a story like this for the last chapter of the PT trilogy. I always imaged Anakin having turned to the Darkside well before the third movie, with the last part being about him hunting down the Jedi in a time period well after the birth of his twins. I think EP3 should have had Bail Organa and others organizing the Rebellion, and shown the Empire's tyrany over the galaxy. Kind of sad they can make something so much better than anything in the PT just within the cutscenes of a silly button masher video game.