What big ears you have

"Padme, I'll be back tonight. Be wearing that little blue number, with the pearls."

"Oh, Ani!"

I'm going to need a course in Naboo civics. She was a queen? An elected queen? Plus a senator? At the age of 15 or so?

No wonder she moped around in Episode III, acting like a kept woman. Career-wise, where can you go after being Queen? But it's a shame she couldn't take a night class or something on Corusant. I mean, I fell in love once too, folks, but I managed to finish college at the same time, that's all I'm sayin'.

Otherwise, I really, really liked Episode III. I had absolutely no problem with the dialog being on the stilted side. All Star Wars movies have that going on; it's one of their defining traits. It's like comic book-speak. It was actually refreshing to hear Obi-Wan and Anakin talk to each other like friends.

And I figured out why Darth Vader doesn't recognize R2D2 or even C-3PO. I think it's because both the droids are standard-looking models. You see R2 units in almost every spaceport and docking hanger. They're like Volkswagens - sure, you used to drive one, but does that mean you'll recognize your old VW?

We took the Girl, in spite of people saying the movie was too dark for kids. She's seen SW1 and 2; she has a sort of sci-fi investment in the series. Plus nerves of sisal. She was all right with the story. We sort of laughed at the places that reminded us of the parody that we have memorized. And you should have seen her on the drive home. "So, that was number three. Will there be a number four?" Oh, youbetcha. So we watched that one last night - she's seen it but wasn't interested before now. Soon she'll be One of Us.

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[Snow]

I took B to see it on Saturday, which was my second viewing. He really liked it and wasn't distressed at all. "You've made me watch all the others, Mom. It's kinda obvious where this is going."

[casey]

Yes, the weak Padme bothered me. After such a portrayal of her intelligence and strenght in SWI.

But more bothersome is how, not just one huge baby, but *two* could come out of that tiny lump of a belly. Come on, There had to be just a little bit of a waddle going on there when she arrived at the volcanic planet.

Oh ya. This is science *fiction*.

Casey

[Anthony]

I just liked the parts where Anakin killed people, where Palpatine was evil and where Obi-Wan was disappointed with Anakin.
"You were the Chosen One"!
Yeah, but "chosen" for what? Did anyone bother to ask that particular question?
I'm really amused by all the people who are JUST NOW deciding to complain about Yoda's fractured syntax. Excuse me, he's been talking like that since 1980, it's a little late to be frothing in righteous indignation about his grammatical faux-pas!!
And as far as the terrible dialogue--Lucas has never written good dialogue, why pick on him now? The level of utter unbridled fury I've seen on various web sites strikes me as pathetic: the kind of anger being vented by people who've suddenly realized that there's no Easter Bunny...

[pam]

It takes a formerly pregnant woman to coach actresses how to walk and move like they're pregnant. Men just don't know.