Oh that's not what I'm complaining about. It's just the endless retconning of intent that Lucas loves to engage in. His first idea was to make Dooku a female, which would have ruled IMO.

But would Christopher Lee look good in drag?


EDIT: Is it just me of has there been like a rush to get Lee in as many films as possible before he dies.
I wonder who started it... I'm tempted to say Burton's SleepyHollow... but i maybe wrong.

It reeks of lameness because IMHO Yoda should be so friggin 1337 with the Force that he's beyond lightsabers. Him and Palpatine both. That was certainly the impression that I got from the original movies. Like Yoda is this little swamp muppet and you're thinking "oh he's ghey" and then he levitates a spaceship out of a swamp. And Palpatine is an old man with a cane and no weapon and you're thinking "oh Luke could totally take this guy" and then fucking lightning shoots out of his fingers and you're like, "oh." Next-level sh*t.

Force Bending?

Ah yes. I remember those. They actually let me down before I even saw the movie. The Anakin/Padme scenes blew chunks in AotC and I was worried that more of the same would dominate RotS. Luckily it didn't, but the scenes we did see with them still sucked. The hole thing seemed like it was pulled from The OC/One Tree Hill/whatever trendy teen soap opera is current on.
The forbidden love/fallen Jedi plot has promise but they blew it.

And how stupid are the people of Naboo for electing Jar Jar as a senator? The annoying waste of CGI gave Palpy his Hitler powers. Although the fact that Jar Jar is responsible for the rise of the evil Galactic Empire seems right.

Jar Jar was a representative of the Gungans, not a Senator

Good point. The fact that Palpatine has a lightsabre in RotS (and theoretically in TPM and AotC) and he doesn't have one in RotJ is a huge for me.


Gotcha. So Jar Jar was the top of the bottom of the barrel?

That actually made my inner fanboy laugh a fair bit.

Did you even read the post?

I wasn't overthinking anything, just stating I had no problem with special edition releases and that everything since has been a waste of will spent dollars.

For you it may be different and I'm fine by that.

And IMO Nolan has already proven himself a better director of fanboy property's than Lucus ever will.

Which begs one to ask, how DO you f*ck up your own multimillion dollar franchise?

That's like two ninjas saying "Our ninja skills are too awesome. Let's settle this with Hulk Hands."

Since I bet the lion's share of Lucas' cash comes from merchandising, I'm not sure he's fcuked up anything.

It helps when you secretly hate yourself. And Lucas' recent actions indicate he does.

Again - 30 year difference... people lose shot in that amount of time...

BS, Ninjas would never square off against each other. You watch too many movies.

[Star Wars nerd]Some Jedi felt that using a lightsaber against another Jedi or "Dark Jedi" (LAME!) was the "honorable" thing to do, Dooku included. Palpatine used lighting because he was a damn dirty cheater.[/Star Wars nerd]

I may have to photoshop my sig now...

He couldn't make another one? Luke managed to hobble one together between ESB and RotJ.

he didnt need to. He had Extreem Lenny working for him.

Actually it was 18 years between RotS and ANH according to Star Wars George. And there's no reason why Palpatine would have sucked after that time since he was all awesome as an old man (and we never saw him training anywhere). I think the idea of Palpatine and Yoda being way too awesome for lightsabers (which were the weapon of a Jedi Knight) >>>>>>>>>>>>>> the idea of everything ultimately being settled by swordies.


Dooku started off with the Force powers, including the lightning. The fact that he fought Yoda to a draw is utter fail in itself, since Yoda's Force-ness should have been OVER 9000 compared to Dooku.

And really, I don't care what anyone says, Yoda with a lightsaber is the f*cking gheyest of ghey fanwank ever.

OT, but with Avatar seemingly done and over with, and with TFA still gearing up for a third season, I have no reason to tune into YTV or TeleToon

Accept for The Detour (Adult Swim for the Yanks), of course.

DO EET

HE'S A WITCH, BURN HIM!!!!!

Mystical Swamp Muppet > CGI Tasmanian Devil

HALP THE FORCE IS UP MY BUTT

STOP IT! STOP IT! STOP IT!!!!!

Okay, to get back on topic here...I actually just got back from seeing "Clone Wars" and...it was actually decent. Its not the awful mess some critics have made it out to be.

The Good:

The Clone Troopers themselves were awesome, and some of them got the business end of a laser blast far more graphically than I'd expected. I'm hoping the series has lots more of them, which I guess it kinda has to.

The battle scenes seemed far more kinetic than anything in any of the prequels, save the opening of RotS. They were dynamic, which was far more than I was expecting.

Anakin's padawan wasn't nearly as annoying as the early reviews made her out to be. She says dumb stuff, but the most annoying thing about her is knowing she's basically a Red Shirt.

The Bad:

The goddamn battle droids' sassy backtalk has been ratcheted up 1000%. Fuck them.

The character design for most of the faces is awful. But Padme has a sweet, sweet can.

Zero The Hutt...the less said, the better.

And there's alot of booooooooring plot advancement with long-winded walk and talks.

Anywho, overall I was somewhat pleasantly surprised that I didn't hate it, so there's that. However, I do think it would've been better to have this premiere on TV rather than at the movie theater. It was just too small-scale.

It's nice to know that the CGI artists have their priorities in order.

I was going to read thru all of the patter then I realized I just don't have the frakking time. Anyways...I'm one of those who loves the whole Star Wars thing. Now I will admit the new BSG has "owned" Star Wars and every other form of Sci Fi on tv or film but still non the less there are alot of things I love about the the huge galaxy far far away. As Lucas keeps putting out story after story I find my self paying more attention to the environment and the aliens and starships and less interest with the main characters, save for Obi Wan.

With the new clone wars out my expectations were set very low. In fact based on the trailer I was completely convinced that Lucas was crazy to think that this new story arc fits any where in the time line. So I went to the theater pretending that what I was going to watch on screen would be some CGI animated Sci Fi story that was not Star Wars.

Well I have to say, if you go in forgeting everything you know or think you know, you might actually find a well done story. In fact the writing and direction was far more superior than say AOTC! In a way Lucas is trying to play catch up. after seing this movie you will walk away with the feeling that Lucas should have mad this a real film, despence with the 5min cartoons and added another chapter thus off setting the chapter count again. It was a good story but it was a shame that it was too little too late. The only thing really wrong with the Clone Wars movie was just bad timing.

"George, I think it's time you give your self a break for a few years...let the Star Wars fad die a litlle and then come back swinging with the stories the fans really want to see...the time between a new hope and Revenge of the Sith"

I can has Starring Roll?

Clone Wars is about a giant turd?

That's about the same thing my friend said pretty much.

Aparently the story is actually really good but the animation in his opinion didn't work.

Said it was definitely interesting.

well they do call him "Stinky"

Wait.



That thing is not actually in the movie, is it?

Kidnapped Jabba Son is...

But does it look...like...that? ^^^

It looks like Mr. Hanky the Christmas Poo's evil mutated twin brother.

EDIT: More correctly, it looks like it should grow out of Mr. Hanky the Christmas Poo's side and say "Quaid, start the reactor."

Ya know, I'm not like the biggest expert on Hutt physiology or anything...

but I'd always imagined Jabba being so huge and nasty and fat and wrinkly cuz he'd been around for a while. But that thing just looks like a chibi version of Jabba, wrinkles and all.

HAWT!!!!

Also,

So Hutts are already little old men/women when they come out of their parental pouches.

"parental pouch"

Wait, so "Hutt" is what their species is called now?

I just thought it was a name with a descriptor, like "William the Conqueror," or "trench the giant weiner'd."


I'm also calling bullshot on that wiki bit about "hawt" = whale, because Lucas's original descriptions of Jabba the Hutt from the 70s aren't anywhere close to "giant slug thing."

oh yeah wasn't his original idea some sort of multi armed Buddha/Fumanchu guy?

That's official according to TPM and various SW games that I've played. It is kind of stupid, though.

As is the inclusion of Jabba in the Six Degrees of George Lucas' Sphincter game.

NICE!

Lobot => Yoda, GO!

You're not even trying!

Lobot -> Lando -> Han/Leia/Chewie/C-3PO -> Luke/R2-D2 -> Yoda

Darth Nilhilus => Tag & Bink

Darth Nihilus -> The Force -> Darth Vader -> Tag & Bink

FIX'D (unecessary step)


No fair, film/television characters only (I don't know who these jokers are).

Nute Gunray => the Gorax

You sure about that one?

Well I guess they did talk once over a comlink.

End of ESB: Luke falls off a weather vane onto the top of the MF, into Lando's manly, waiting arms.

EDIT: Also, "And don't forget the droids." -Luke "We're on our way!" -Lando

EDIT pt. 2: Hell, Lobot => Chewbacca => Yoda, for that matter.

Yeeee-eeeessss...I can FEEL your ANGER, Lord Madhammer. Your Anti-SW angst makes you POWERFUL...