ChainsawAsh said:I wasn't a fan of the Outrider simply because "Shadows of the Empire" sucks. It's unnecessary, and adds a lot of complicated bullshit that makes no sense to a period between films that should have been pretty straightforward.
For example, did we *really* need an explanation for why Chewie's hair looked a little different? Did we really need a Han Solo clone, just so we could have Han Solo in the book by proxy?
Then there was Xizor ... ugh ... I could go on and on ...
I agree with all that. Shadows gets on my nerves.
vote_for_palpatine said:
Supposedly, in AOTC they had a X-Wing pursuing a TIE, or vice versa. I never could see the damn things.
The ET's in the senate...no comment necessary.
I consider Darth Vader in the OT suit twenty years before Star Wars and towel-faced Palpatine to be fan service, both of them shitty. Ditto Yoda's fighting and constantly talking backwards.
I can't imagine what Yoda's introduction would have sounded like in PT-speak:
"Still...I feel like-"
"What, feel like?"
"Like we're being watched!"
"Away put your weapon! No harm, I mean you! Wondering, I am - here, why are you?"
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Or, as Obi-Wan and Yoda discuss Luke's future:
"Teach him, I cannot. No patience, the boy has."
"Reckless, ARE YOU!!!"
Off-topic, there's an ad for a Rifftrax SW Holiday Special. I hate when they take on such easy targets.
Yoda talking backward worked in the OT, when there was some fun to the character. But the dour pompous PT Yoda was just annoying when backward he talked.
Yoda's fighting is described on wookieepedia as being "popular" with people. Wtf? That's a disturbing thought. People actually LIKED Yoda bouncing around howling? And why was he howling? That doesn't fit the character at all.
The Emperor's makeup in ROTS was crap. They got it right in ROTJ, so they could get it right in ROTS, if they had to do it at all.
Anakin being reconstructed as the suited Vader was done in a very artificial and unintelligent way in ROTS. I do think he would have been in some form of the suit back then, though.