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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gizzard" data-source="post: 1304691" data-attributes="member: 527">I'm just going to pick this first one since it's convenient rather than debating the whole post.  ;-)To start, I'll admit that Ewan McGregor is one of the better things in the movie, somehow managing to capture what I consider to be the classic Star Wars spirit in his performance.  I'll give you that.  He's still kicked around by GL's poor script, but he does a generally good job.  Still, look at this investigation sequence.  Obi-Wan as a character is just all over the map.   Is Obi-Wan really supposed to be dense or is scene in Yoda's classroom just something that GL randomly threw into the movie.  Look, children tell Obi-Wan what is obvious to the audience -- that the planet Kamino is not really missing!  Uh, OK.  Did Obi-Wan really not think of this on the way over from the library?  The more I think about this, the more I think I am on to something.  GL intends Obi-Wan to come across as dim.  Would he have even gotten off of Kamino if the Kamin-ians hadn't been even dumber than him?  Random Kamin-ian: "Hi, we'd like to give you a Clone Army."Obi-Wan: "Oh.  Well, yes, I would like that, I guess.  Um...."Random Kamin-ian: "Yes?"Obi-Wan: "About the Clone Army....do you mind telling me who I am picking it up for?"Random Kamin-ian: "Sure, we'll tell you.  Your odd behavior has not aroused our suspicions at all."In any sensible world, this is what should have happened:Random Kamin-ian: "Hi, you must be here to pick up the Clone Army.  Do you have your reciept?"Obi-Wan: "Clone Army?  Reciept?  I don't know what you are talking about."Random Kamin-ian: "Guards.  Have this man killed."Of course, the same thing should have happened on Geonosis too.  Christopher Lee should know how dangerous Obi-Wan is, but he falls victim to the old "sharks with laser-beams" villian trap.  "I won't kill you, I'll put you in an arena to be killed, despite the fact I know you are a powerful Jedi."  I could forgive that if there was any reason for there to be an arena on Geonosis (can you imagine Dooky's reputation in the rest of the Republic if he's running a gladatorial arena?) or if I thought that Dooku wanted to make a big public spectacle of killing his foes ("Oh, I'm sure no-one will ever find out that I've had ex-Queen Amidala killed in an arena...") rather than just doing it quietly like he should.  All of this is stuff that makes no sense, but GL felt it would make a great spectacle so, plot be damned, let there be a gladatorial game on Geonosis.  But that's my compaint about EpI & EpII; all spectacle and no sense.Tangent3: I voted that the movies never should have been made, thinking that someone else could have eventually done them better if GL had left the whole thing alone.  But really thats too harsh; I've gotten at least $18 worth of fun ripping on these two movies.  Even if it hurt to sit through them.  ;-)</blockquote>

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