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Post #354754

Author
Vaderisnothayden
Parent topic
Star Wars is for children. Adults: Stop being selfish.
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Date created
15-Apr-2009, 3:52 PM
DarkFather said:

Vader suffering his injuries and all the scenes afterward were great. Seeing Vader's reconstruction, the masking, and the first breath he takes will be with me forever. And seeing the technology of the OT in the PT finally, with Vader walking up to Tarkin and the Emporer was awesome.

Really? Vader suffering his injuries was pathetic, with Hayden going "I hate you!" like a sulking kid and the bit where Kenobi chops him up being anticlimactic. Vader's reconstruction looked poorly thought-out and seeing Hayden's face going behind the mask really didn't work, because no way could that be the face or guy behind the mask. It all felt rather simplistic. And there was too much deliberate Frankenstein type vibe. Then Vader goes "Nooooo!" and the saga is stabbed in the back by the purest lameness. Tarkin's appearance was a mistake, as was the death star's. It doesn't fit to have everything be just as it is in ANH. This is twenty years before, for fuck's sake. That's just as bad as (if not worse than) having Chewie be best buddies with Yoda.

Also, the Vader reconstruction scene was inconsistent with the OT in that Vader was shown to have no problem breathing without his mask. In ROTJ we're told he'll die without his mask.