A Long Time Ago...
In a state not really far away, I saw Star Wars (that IS what it was called back then). I was starting third grade. Last night, along with all the other 30something dads and their kids, Gabe and Sam and I went to see Episode III. Gabe will be in third grade when the next school year starts, so that's mildly interesting to me.
Gabe was enthralled with it. Sam said it was too loud.
I won't bother with slagging the dialogue, everyone else on the internet has already done that. And, yes, I wished that Episodes I and II had been combined so that III could have done more with the time between the twins' birth and the destruction of the Death Star. But, that said, it still does a marvelous job of connecting the series. Even visually. You can see the evolution of hardware and costumes. The constant battles and special effects created a dizzying atmosphere of good old science fiction action adventure fun.
But I have 2 small questions:
1. Why did Palpatine get so ugly after his fight with Mace Windu? Gabe decided it was because the dark side force that Mace pointed back at him sucked the life out of him. I know others have a mask theory, that when he was Palpatine he had a disguised appearance, and that when he was being Sidious he appeared as his normal bad self.
2. Why did it take from the time Luke was born until he could get his X-wing license to build the Death Star? Didn't they use all their time-saving droids to do that? And why didn't it take nearly that long to build the second one in Return of The Jedi?
It was definitely the best of the Episodes, but still, even with all its surround sound zipping spaceship laser beam glory, it still doesn't have the soul of any of the Original Trilogy. It's worth seeing, if for no other reason than it fills in the last gap.
In a state not really far away, I saw Star Wars (that IS what it was called back then). I was starting third grade. Last night, along with all the other 30something dads and their kids, Gabe and Sam and I went to see Episode III. Gabe will be in third grade when the next school year starts, so that's mildly interesting to me.
Gabe was enthralled with it. Sam said it was too loud.
I won't bother with slagging the dialogue, everyone else on the internet has already done that. And, yes, I wished that Episodes I and II had been combined so that III could have done more with the time between the twins' birth and the destruction of the Death Star. But, that said, it still does a marvelous job of connecting the series. Even visually. You can see the evolution of hardware and costumes. The constant battles and special effects created a dizzying atmosphere of good old science fiction action adventure fun.
But I have 2 small questions:
1. Why did Palpatine get so ugly after his fight with Mace Windu? Gabe decided it was because the dark side force that Mace pointed back at him sucked the life out of him. I know others have a mask theory, that when he was Palpatine he had a disguised appearance, and that when he was being Sidious he appeared as his normal bad self.
2. Why did it take from the time Luke was born until he could get his X-wing license to build the Death Star? Didn't they use all their time-saving droids to do that? And why didn't it take nearly that long to build the second one in Return of The Jedi?
It was definitely the best of the Episodes, but still, even with all its surround sound zipping spaceship laser beam glory, it still doesn't have the soul of any of the Original Trilogy. It's worth seeing, if for no other reason than it fills in the last gap.
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