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The Worst Scene/Sequence in Any Star Wars Film — Page 6

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snooker said:
Padme’s just boring. I don’t care about negotiating support in the senate. I don’t care about “fixing up the baby’s room on Naboo”. Nothing that character does ever matters, especially in ROTS. She just sits and talks and dies. The only reason George had her in the movies is because Luke and Leia had to have a mommy.

In his book, Kaminski argues about this: basically, according to Lucas himself, he never had a story for Leia and Luke’s mother, so Padme was meant to be an action woman character in the first two movies and was reduced to her reproductive capabilities in RotS. Leia has never been better (in the movies, I don’t know all about the oEU), but she always had some strong personality that is missing in Padme and she was in a trilogy that gave more emphasis to the characters and their interactions between each other than to a grand story about something something.

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SilverWook said:
Not sure MP has that level of awareness on both sides of the pond? Disney is probably going to have to remind some people the upcoming new movie is actually a sequel.
I think whoever first coined Leia Poppins was only thinking in terms of Disney owning Star Wars now.
Having said that, if Miss Poppins gets blown out into space in the upcoming sequel, the circle will be complete! 😛

Funny you should say that - Mary Poppins does visit space in later books in the series, so maybe that shouldn’t be completely written off as a possibility! 😄

Also I’m Australian, for what it’s worth - not sure about the cultural awareness of Mary Poppins in the US, but certainly the image of her is still a recognisable one.

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coinilius said:

SilverWook said:
Not sure MP has that level of awareness on both sides of the pond? Disney is probably going to have to remind some people the upcoming new movie is actually a sequel.
I think whoever first coined Leia Poppins was only thinking in terms of Disney owning Star Wars now.
Having said that, if Miss Poppins gets blown out into space in the upcoming sequel, the circle will be complete! 😛

Funny you should say that - Mary Poppins does visit space in later books in the series, so maybe that shouldn’t be completely written off as a possibility! 😄

Also I’m Australian, for what it’s worth - not sure about the cultural awareness of Mary Poppins in the US, but certainly the image of her is still a recognisable one.

I think she’s better known as a Disney character in the U.S. than a literary one.

Poppins In space? That would confirm my theory Miss Poppins is actually a Time Lord. 😉

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SilverWook said:

I think she’s better known as a Disney character in the U.S. than a literary one.

Poppins In space? That would confirm my theory Miss Poppins is actually a Time Lord. 😉

Well, there was Missy doing a ‘Scary Poppins’ routine in Doctor Who recently… maybe that’s not so impossible either then! 😄

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The scene with C-3PO getting his head swapped in AotC is by far the worst scene in the entire SW saga.

coinilius said:

SilverWook said:

I think she’s better known as a Disney character in the U.S. than a literary one.

Poppins In space? That would confirm my theory Miss Poppins is actually a Time Lord. 😉

Well, there was Missy doing a ‘Scary Poppins’ routine in Doctor Who recently… maybe that’s not so impossible either then! 😄

Snoke is the Master confirmed?

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C-3PO getting detached in the droid factory from Attack of the Clones.

The name’s Lawson. Noah Lawson.

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Everything from AOTC, the special editions and the sequels.

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You didn’t answer the threads title.

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CourtlyHades296 said:

Anakin murdering younglings.

Not to pick a nit, but we never actually see the dastardly deed.

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SilverWook said:

CourtlyHades296 said:

Anakin murdering younglings.

Not to pick a nit, but we never actually see the dastardly deed.

I’m pretty sure we see the hologram of it. I haven’t seen ROTS for over ten years, so I’m not 100% sure, though.

And in the time of greatest despair, there shall come a savior, and he shall be known as the Son of the Suns.

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LexX said:

SilverWook said:

CourtlyHades296 said:

Anakin murdering younglings.

Not to pick a nit, but we never actually see the dastardly deed.

I’m pretty sure we see the hologram of it. I haven’t seen ROTS for over ten years, so I’m not 100% sure, though.

I have seen it fairly recently and they don’t show you, instead they show Anakin/Vader killing the masters and not the younglings. Of course I might be wrong about this, so I would have to recheck the scene in question.

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snooker said:

Order 66 sucks pretty bad.

Music’s nice though.

One of these days someone’s gotta make an ROTS edit that cuts it out.