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Post #549507

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DavidBrennan
Parent topic
Star Wars coming to Blu Ray (UPDATE: August 30 2011, No! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!)
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Date created
31-Oct-2011, 4:03 PM

DuracellEnergizer said:

Like Anakin turning to the dark side on a dime, Padmé dying of a broken heart, Padmé dying period, mention of midi-chlorians, younglings, Grevious' cough, the stilted love scenes, the stilted dialogue, bad acting, overused CGI, etc, etc.

Definitely agree with most of those, although I wouldn't say that Anakin turned to the Dark Side "on a dime", it just felt like that because it was poorly executed. 

For instance, I think that his distrust in the Jedi was supposed to be very acute, but it only came across in a couple of ineffectual story beats.  There's a possibly meaningful exchange in one of the "Making Of" featurettes on the DVD (not the Blu-Ray).  Lucas tells Hayden Christiansen that he's re-written Anakin's exchange with Palpatine.  And Hayden immediately perks up and is like, "Oh?!?" with an optimistic gleam in his eye.  I think he was thinking, "So now my character's actions are gonna make sense?"  Only kinda-sorta.