Janskeet said:One thing that always bugged me was it seemed they put the vader suit on over the burnt Hayden without even removing the burnt clothing off of the skin. I know it is just a fantasy movie, but even for Star Wars burnt Hayden looked a little beyond repair. I wasn't expecting him to get so fucked up. I think I actually liked an EU idea better that Vader gets the suit from radiation exposure. I was expecting Hayden to get a few limbs cut off and then fall into a nuclear reactor before I knew the plot of ROTS. It's also pretty contrived how Anakin and Obi-Wan fight over lava sometimes only inches from it, let alone the splattering of it, for what seems to be 45 minuets. Suddently Obi Wan jumps up on a little hill and says "It's over Anakin, I have the high ground!" What? Why does that matter?!! After all the jumping and flipping you did over lava falls, precise lightsaber fighting, Anakin suddenly decides to just clumsily jump up in the air over Obi Wan and then gets all cut up. I would've preferred to see a fight to the finish where Anakin slowly gets more and more wounded, until he no longer can fight. In ROTS they fight precisely until the plot needs them to not fight precisely. Then Obi Wan just lets him burn alive after mercelessly trying to kill him. They could've architect the situation to give Obi Wan a legitmate reason not to finish him off.
Absolutely right. That whole part of the movie seems to be poorly thought-out. They certainly seemed to put Vader into the suit straight out of the lava, which seemed weird. I mean, they could have fixed him up a little first without showing us, but he did seem to go into the suit without much being done to him first (other than the artificial limbs being attached).
And it's ridiculous how Obi Wan and Anakin dance back and forth around the lava and don't get hurt by it. And the fight goes on for ages, with laser swords for god's sakes (easily capable of doing serious harm at the slightest touch), and nobody gets hurt by the swords or the lava, until suddenly three of Anakin's limbs are chopped off in one go. It's very anticlimactic.
And that bullshit about Obi Wan having the high ground. Wtf? They jump so high and far all the time in those movies, Anakin should have been able to jump over Obi Wan's head out of reach of the lightsaber, or at least jump to an area a bit farther down the shore from Obi Wan, out of reach of the saber and then move up the slope. But Obi Wan goes "Na na nan-na na, I have the high ground!" and we're supposed to buy that Anakin can't do anything about it that will work. The whole thing is so damned contrived. But then so is the whole Mustafarted battle.