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<blockquote data-quote="Thornir Alekeg" data-source="post: 2092289" data-attributes="member: 15651"><p>I think my problems with PM, AotC and maybe (hopefully not) RotS all come down to one thing: the interaction of Anakin, Padme and Obi-Wan. I think it is writing directing, and possibly even acting, but somehow it just does not come together. As a result I just don't feel like I care about these characters other for the fact that I know Anakin becomes Vader, Padme bears Luke and Leia, and Obi-Wan will eventually be the one to start Luke on his destined path. Somehow I found I really cared about Luke, Leia and Han in the first (as in first made) three films. The interactions between them made some sense - sure it was movie sense, but it was believable. </p><p></p><p>In PM, we got an Anakin who was the Boxy on the original Battlestar Galactica, or Wesley on Star Trek TNG. Characters I couldn't quite believe in, and just kind of annoyed me. Obi-Wan and Padme had a lot of potential in the first film, but the way they had to interact with Anakin just got in the way. Jump to AotC and now you get the angst-ridden annoying teenager, who for some reason Padme falls in love with and Obi-Wan feels strong loyalty towards (OK, the trailer for RotS explains the last a bit with Obi-Wan crying out "You were the chosen one!"). Padme goes from caring about Anakin, kind of like a big sister in PM, to suddenly falling in love with him, but we cannot see why.</p><p></p><p>If I had my way, Anakin would have started out in PM as a teenager. The romance would have just barely started there, a teenage crush kind of thing. They meet again in AotC as adults and things blossom. Anakin would have not been a whiny teenager who really starts on the path to the dark side because he cannot do as he pleases, but instead been an adult who starts down the path because be starts to believe that he can do more and be more for the Jedi, for Padme for the Republic if he has more power. He justifies all this in his head to start and slowly becomes more and more corrupted. I think this would have created a character that generated more symapthy and would have added more tragedy to the fall of Anakin. Of course nobody asked me what I thought and, like many people my hindsight better than my foresight <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Thornir Alekeg, post: 2092289, member: 15651"] I think my problems with PM, AotC and maybe (hopefully not) RotS all come down to one thing: the interaction of Anakin, Padme and Obi-Wan. I think it is writing directing, and possibly even acting, but somehow it just does not come together. As a result I just don't feel like I care about these characters other for the fact that I know Anakin becomes Vader, Padme bears Luke and Leia, and Obi-Wan will eventually be the one to start Luke on his destined path. Somehow I found I really cared about Luke, Leia and Han in the first (as in first made) three films. The interactions between them made some sense - sure it was movie sense, but it was believable. In PM, we got an Anakin who was the Boxy on the original Battlestar Galactica, or Wesley on Star Trek TNG. Characters I couldn't quite believe in, and just kind of annoyed me. Obi-Wan and Padme had a lot of potential in the first film, but the way they had to interact with Anakin just got in the way. Jump to AotC and now you get the angst-ridden annoying teenager, who for some reason Padme falls in love with and Obi-Wan feels strong loyalty towards (OK, the trailer for RotS explains the last a bit with Obi-Wan crying out "You were the chosen one!"). Padme goes from caring about Anakin, kind of like a big sister in PM, to suddenly falling in love with him, but we cannot see why. If I had my way, Anakin would have started out in PM as a teenager. The romance would have just barely started there, a teenage crush kind of thing. They meet again in AotC as adults and things blossom. Anakin would have not been a whiny teenager who really starts on the path to the dark side because he cannot do as he pleases, but instead been an adult who starts down the path because be starts to believe that he can do more and be more for the Jedi, for Padme for the Republic if he has more power. He justifies all this in his head to start and slowly becomes more and more corrupted. I think this would have created a character that generated more symapthy and would have added more tragedy to the fall of Anakin. Of course nobody asked me what I thought and, like many people my hindsight better than my foresight ;) [/QUOTE]
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