Death Troopers.
I see the Skywalker bloodline as being the "Chosen One", rather than exclusively Anakin.
His style of laying out the internal gears instead of focusing mostly on the outside struggles was refreshing. He took cardboard cut-outs and made them very real.
He's a selfish, possessive opportunist devoid of character. Some people want to draw parallels between him and Darth Vader (becoming what he sought to destroy). Frankly, that's an insult to my all-time favorite villain.
Essentially, their facial structures are similar (objectively so), they're both ethnic (as someone said, if they got gotten a blond haired, fair-skinned boy instead it would be a problem), and it was aesthetically a good casting choice. The next best thing they could have done is actually generated a young clone of Morrison, and the only one asking that of Lucas is you.
Vaderisnothayden, I suggest looking up "cognitive dissonance" and reflecting on how it applies to this situation for you.
How was Vapaad even an acceptable form in the eyes of the Jedi Council. It's dancing precariously on the edge of the dark side, for the sole sake of defeating an opponent. What's the point of even calling yourself a Jedi if you apply a form like that?
It's like the RCC approving pre-marital oral sex because it isn't truly sex.
It would be me basically saying the same thing that others have already so grandly said themselves.
Essentially, their facial structures are similar (objectively so), they're both ethnic (as someone said, if they got gotten a blond haired, fair-skinned boy instead it would be a problem), and it was aesthetically a good casting choice. The next best thing they could have done is actually generated a young clone of Morrison, and the only one asking that of Lucas is you.
Vaderisnothayden, I suggest looking up "cognitive dissonance" and reflecting on how it applies to this situation for you.
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The Clone Wars Anakin exists to drive the plot forward and is devoid of any and all real emotion or thought-just like the cartoon itself.
You're talking out your ass. Devoid of emotion or thought? Have you ever even sat through any episodes from the series? The characters are three dimensional, and there's some genuine heart-felt moments. The stories are solid as well.
Come on man, Lucas did direct Star Wars, American Graffiti and THX-1138, so he is not an incompetent director.
He had substantial creative support for writing ANH, and the superb acting in that film is largely because of Alec Guiness' seasoned talent, and the other actors improvising for themselves. It's nothing to do with Lucas being a good director. He was bad. Really bad. On all accounts during production, the guy was sorely lacking in the social skills department. "Faster and more intense, CO."
ESB was neither written nor directed by Lucas. Kasdan wrote the script, and Kershner directed. Lucas was on the other side of the globe during most of the production.
And American Graffiti I don't see as being anything to write home about, and THX-1138 I've only watched clips of (didn't interest me). That's preferance, though. I'm trying to bring around the idea that the more control Lucas has over a Star Wars film, the more it's panned by critics and fans.
Sure it wasn't meant as Anakin's actual thinking?
I downloaded the e-book of ROTS, but I must have deleted it at some point. Someone could verify with context and everything.
In defense of Matthew Stover's ROTSs novelization, it is the only form I care to experience that story in. Far better than the film. I don't even remember that line from the book, so it clearly didn't have a big impact on me or bother me that much. But I like Stover's Anakin [is] far, far, better than Hayden's Anakin.
Definitely. I'm not knocking on Stover, so much as the trend itself in EU. I prefer Anakin to be eloquent, as Darth Vader is in the OT (one of the few traits I think should be present in both good Jedi Anakin and evil Sith Vader).
Lucas screwed it up with irresponsible directing. I can imagine Hayden and Natalie doing great takes, doing the best they could with the dialogue, and then Lucas having them do it over again. Remember, Empire Strikes Back is his least favorite Star Wars film. Meaning he has jealousy problems, or, I think also he has crap taste in what's good in film.
Lucas is an idea machine. He has some good ideas, but he faulters as a writer and director to the point that I'd consider him downright incompetent in those areas. Realize how important they are in making a film a classic.
I was reading Wookieepedia as I often do. Yesterday I thought I'd better familiarize myself with the different forms of lightsaber combat, and ran across Mace's Vapaad form. In the description, it quotes Anakin from the ROTS novelization as having described Mace's combat form as "an oblate sphere of purple fire."
This is a problem with the EU that last evening finally had me doing a facepalm right there at the keyboard after I had read that quote.
Writers are always having characters say things that I cannot imagine them believably saying. I cannot imagine Film Anakin describing Mace's combat form as "an oblate sphere of purple fire."
It's like there's three Anakins here: Film Anakin, EU Anakin, and Star Wars: The Clone Wars Anakin. Somehow we're supposed to accept they're the same character, but they're way too different to be interchangable. It's annoying.
You may say it's similar to Batman, in that different writers have different visions of what a character needs to be. Well, I don't see that being an adequate reason. Unless it's an Infinities story or something, these characters are meant to at least believably reflect what we see in the films.
What an oblate sphere of purple fire this is.
I thought Dooku was destractingly similar to Saruman, who Christopher Lee was playing about right at the same time.
That bit about the suspect list makes you sound like you think you're a cop. It's pretty funny.
Hey, I half apologized to you jackhole. That's all you're getting from me.
being the most ridiculous thing here.
Your first post in this thread wins as most ridiculous thing here. Bar none.
DarkFather's theories that I'm an undercover agent for the prequel fans
You must be new to the fan community, or you'd know that sort of thing isn't exactly unheard of. With militant PT gushers, you're scraping the very bottom of the weird barrel. They'll do all sorts of things to give the PT a better name.
If I'm wrong about you specifically, and accusing an innocent person, I do apologize. However, you remain on my suspect list.
I must've hit it pretty close to the mark to get her all riled up like that, huh, kid?
Put me on ignore if you're too narrow to accept my different views, Vaderisnothayden.
Oh yes, let's celebrate that you have such "constructive, ground-breaking, unique viewpoints" to bring to the table.
Let's also celebrate that you are exactly what I said you are. You were losing patience when you decided to make this thread. Learn patience, come back under another username, and I'm sure you have a shot at becoming an infamous forum celebrity like Go-Mer-Tonic.
Until then, all your hard work was for nothing.
TheBoost was wrong in a sense. You are in fact a parody. I don't believe for a moment that you believe half the things you post. You're either a random troll, or someone on a self-appointed holy mission to make prequel bashers rethink their stance.
At the same time, you're smart enough to participate with some of the discussions to better camouflage yourself. This thread is really what gave you away.
A suggestion for the montage:
Have you ever watched the Sandlot? You could have a voice-over of an older Luke keeping a journal entry (call-back to the journal of the whills) to upload into R2. Have footage from the previous films showing the characters, and whenever a character's "fate" is done being revealed by Luke, the image of the character sort of vanishes into thin air.
"You ready R2? All right. Journal entry of Luke Skywalker. 40 ABY." Maybe start off with something like that.
Show Han cleaning the Falcon in preparation for its take-off from Mos Eisely: and when Luke is finished saying "last we heard is that he had a run-in with bounty hunters. We haven't been in contact with him for years." have the figure of Han gradually disappear, leaving the Falcon alone in the docking bay.
That's one example.
Perhaps they could have come up with a concept that involved something else rather than a station that destroys planets.