So you going to blame Lawrence Kasdan’s (THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK) writing for it? George Lucas did not direct this one. Of course he directed Star Wars the original and you seemed to have little problem. I know this forum has a lot of “militant purists” where nothing outside the original unaltered films (With ROTJ not quite accepted either) will probably ever be accepted unless you guys are given approval over everything from the screenplay, filming techniques, etc. Some are so dogmatic they think their opinion is absolute science to what a “good” SW movie is. As if there is absolute scientific standard to what makes a film good or bad. It’s art, it’s subjective opinion. They could let you in on the creative process and approval and give you everything you want, truth told, no MATTER what they do, or whomever else does with a SW movie, there will always be people on forums here or somewhere griping about what was done “wrong”. Never can they make EVERYONE happy.
If you could use a quote or otherwise indicate who you are responding to, that would help me understand what has set you off in this post.
I agree with you that we’re very critical on this site. In some cases, I think it’s very well-founded. In other cases, perhaps a bit over-the-top. Occasionally, totally batshit.
In case it was a response to me, since I was the post immediately above yours: I was making a joke about how robotic and awful some of the dialogue was in the prequels. It got a bit more natural for Episode III, though. I did not actually mean to imply that Kasden would write such wooden characters. Edit: Oh, you’re probably talking to nightstalker. Can’t say I hear what he’s hearing.