My Thoughts During RotS [SPOILERS]

[Cthulhudrew]

Really good movie- almost makes up for the first two.

Here are some of the thoughts that ran through my mind as I watched:

Wow- What kind of master plan involves getting yourself kidnapped and trapped on a ship that's about to crash planetside? Time to shoot your strategist, methinks.

So, princess, do you always wear your makeup to bed?

So, Yoda, what you're saying is that, in order to be a Jedi, you have to be an unfeeling, uncaring, detached, withdrawn, utterly logical Vulcan? And that's a good thing?

Plagius? What's next, Faminious? Deathicus? I guess that the Mario Brothers old foe must have been a Sith? (Darth Wario?)

Noooo! Not the midichlorians!

"Shot to the heart, and you're to blame; you give droids, a bad name..."

"No, Threepio, there's nothing you can do for me." Dramatic knuckle bite and turn away from the camera.

There's got to be a really great market for the robotic limb trade in the Republic.

Lucas: "Natalie, Padme is really torn in this scene. I want you to improvise her pain."
Portman: "What should I say?"
Lucas: "I don't know. Just use some cliched romantic line or something."
Portman: "Got it."
Portman to Christianson: "You're breaking my heart. You're going down a path I can't follow."
Lucas: "Aaand, cut! I love it. Now make me hate it."

(During the final battle with Obi-Wan and Anakin)- When did they recast Christoper Lambert as Anakin? Guess that explains the beheading earlier.

Okay, end it already? Did I accidentally stumble into a showing of "Return of the King?"

Anyway, all kidding aside, I really enjoyed this one. A lot of great stuff happening, and, like I said, almost makes up for 1 and 2. Sweet.

 

[ShadowDenizen]

General Grievous: "Bwah-hah-hah! My devious plan to ESCAPE is nearly complete!"
(Great plan, there, General.)

 

[Dagger75]

What keeps getting me.

Jedi: Feelings lead to the dark side.

Yoda: Search your feelings and you will find Anakin.


Clone Trooper army are those jedi hunters everybody was wondering about. Then how come in Episode 4-5-6 the stormtroopers can't hit anything.

 

[Trainz]

What keeps getting me.

Jedi: Feelings lead to the dark side.

Yoda: Search your feelings and you will find Anakin.

Yeah... weird.

Clone Trooper army are those jedi hunters everybody was wondering about. Then how come in Episode 4-5-6 the stormtroopers can't hit anything.

Cause they ain't clone troopers ?

Every individual clone trooper is a replica of the greatest bounty hunter in the galaxy (who by himself manages to off a Jedi in Ep. 2), whereas storm troopers are little more than brainwashed grunts.

There are much bigger inconsistencies in Star Wars, but this one ain't one of them.

 

[John Crichton]

What keeps getting me.

Jedi: Feelings lead to the dark side.

Yoda: Search your feelings and you will find Anakin.

No, attachments lead to the dark side. And when they say "search your feelings" they are not referring to emotions but instead they are referencing feeling through the Force. Like a blind man using his hands.

That's the way I took it.

I think it's a good example of how blind and arrogant the Jedi became. The war provided just enough distraction so that no one reigned in Anakin. The only reason he was trained was because of a the promise to a dying master by a dedicated padawan. That and Anakin was a very insecure person who already had strong attachments that he could not distance himself from. He had already experienced true feelings that none of the Jedi ever really did.

 

[d20Dwarf]

No, attachments lead to the dark side. And when they say "search your feelings" they are not referring to emotions but instead they are referencing feeling through the Force. Like a blind man using his hands.

Ok, here's one for you then.

Anakin: "Yes, someone close, someone I care for."

Yoda: "Attachment leads to the Dark Side, do not mourn those we lose, do not miss them."

Later on...

Yoda: "Miss you, I will, Chewbacca."




I loved the movie, btw, that line just confused me a bit.

 

[Dagger75]

KK, I'll give you the clone troopers grunt thing, didn't think of that. Still tired.

Me and my roommate had another thought. Bail said to memory wipe C-3PO but not R2. Okay so R2 knows somethings. Now R2 has met Yoda. So when he runs into him on Dagabah and shocks Yoda after he steals a lantern. Is R2 just being a mean and spitful little bastard? What a jerk.

 

[Trainz]

KK, I'll give you the clone troopers grunt thing, didn't think of that. Still tired.

Apology accepted, Dagger75.

Me and my roommate had another thought. Bail said to memory wipe C-3PO but not R2. Okay so R2 knows somethings. Now R2 has met Yoda. So when he runs into him on Dagabah and shocks Yoda after he steals a lantern. Is R2 just being a mean and spitful little bastard? What a jerk.

See ? I told you there were quite obvious inconsistencies. This one I caught immediately too.

We could assume that when they wiped C3P0, the tech on Alderaan said "Hey boss, did senator Organa wanted that astromech wiped too ?" to which the chief tech could answer "I don't remember... sure, why not. For good measure", but then I guess the tech also wiped Artoo's memory of how to use his rocket boosters...

... plenty inconsistencies. Plenty.

Gonna see it again tomorrow.

 

[John Crichton]

Me and my roommate had another thought. Bail said to memory wipe C-3PO but not R2. Okay so R2 knows somethings. Now R2 has met Yoda. So when he runs into him on Dagabah and shocks Yoda after he steals a lantern. Is R2 just being a mean and spitful little bastard? What a jerk.

R2 has always been a childlike character. Brave and resourceful but still childlike and easily hurt. And what happens when you try and take a child's toy/belonging away from it? The child wants it back. Now. Also, R2 has no real attachment to Yoda. His attachment is to the Skywalkers and Obi-wan by than extension.

 

[Gomez]

Talk of the Clone Troopers got me thinking. Aren't they nothing more than slaves? Conditioned to obey, bought for, there only life is being a solider.

But in Episode One, Amadla was shocked to hear that Anakin was a slave. But in Episode 2, "Oh here are the tens of thousands of slaves you ordered." And not a peep out of anyone about it. They just say. "Gee thanks alot! We really need those."