xhonzi said:
C3PX,
Please elaborate more on the shocks and twists you thought you might see. I was thinking along similar lines recently that there were no twists.
Maybe Luke had an older brother?
Maybe Vader wasn't actually the father? Obi-wan?
I don't know. But you're right, the Panda Bear Shuffle was not much of a twist. I was expecting some intrigue in RotS about the whole Sifo Diyas thing. I went to the theatre hopeful that the turn would be done well, that the space battles would be thrilling, and that I might actually like the movie. It took me a couple days to get over my disappointment for those other things, but then I realized the "mystery" elements of AotC weren't revisited at all. Oops?
I can't say any twists I had expected to see. I was just surprised there were not any. I expected to meet a lot more characters I'd care about along the way. And hear a lot more interesting stories along the way as well. Instead, we basically got told the same story we already knew (as told by Obi-Wan and Yoda in the OT), and a ton of padding and hot air filling in the gaps in order to bloat it out into a three movie trilogy. Ultimately, there is only a few paragraphs of story in the entire PT.
I figured there would be more story there, and that George would work a few crazy twists in along the way. When I first saw ROTS, I actually excitedly thought he had pulled something like this off. I was so dumbfounded at Anakin's turn, I couldn't believe it. When he walked into the room of small children who come out of hiding and look up to him for help guidance as he ignites his lightsaber, I just couldn't accept that what I was being lead to believe was about to happen was really what was going to happen. I figured clever old George (oh how much misguided faith I had in you) had just tricked us. Anakin had not yet turned to the darkside at all, but was playing the hero. He saw what happened to Mace, and knew the Sith had to be stop, so he pretended he was on his side, and was really had some plan up his sleeve. When I saw the young Jedi come running out and kill a Clone Trooper, I was sure I was right. Anakin was leading the children in some crazy plan to fend off the attackers and keep the kids alive. Surely even Darth Vader wouldn't be so cruel as to hack up a bunch of 7 year olds.
I figured somewhere along the way the whole setup of Anakin's jealously of Padme and Obi-Wan's friendship would pay off, and he would slip off to the darkside after playing the hero and helping fend off the invasion on the Jedi temple.
Instead it turns out I was completely wrong, Anakin really did turn to the darkside with a snap of Palpatine's figure even while second guessing himself he commits himself to do whatever Palp's might possibly ask him to do. Anakin did hack up the children, and the whole Obi-Wan/Padme thing never really played off, and the movie really, really sucked.