My Thoughts During RotS [SPOILERS]

[BiggusGeekus]

On that note, how much do you think poor Vader is worth? Considering how painful it looked, I think the Emperor went with the cheapest options...

The Dark Side is seductive and powerful, but they do have a quirky medical plan.

My big thing was that here Anakin was living with Padme, she's preggers, and Obi-Wan doesn't figure it out until the end.

It also makes me wonder a little about Yoda. He knows, because Ani tells him, that Ani has strong feelings for someone. Who'd he think it was? Obi-Wan?

Also, Pademe is very forgiving of the whole genocide thing. Ani pulls it off twice and she's still cool. Man. My wife would be really upset if I ever did that.

 

[wolff96]

The Dark Side is seductive and powerful, but they have a quirky medical plan.

Please, please, PLEASE may I poach that for my .sig? That made me laugh so loud here at work that my co-workers all came over to see if I was okay.

 

[BiggusGeekus]

Please, please, PLEASE may I poach that for my .sig? That made me laugh so loud here at work that my co-workers all came over to see if I was okay.

Sure!

 

[Hand of Evil]

The Dark Side is seductive and powerful, but they do have a quirky medical plan.

My big thing was that here Anakin was living with Padme, she's preggers, and Obi-Wan doesn't figure it out until the end.

It also makes me wonder a little about Yoda. He knows, because Ani tells him, that Ani has strong feelings for someone. Who'd he think it was? Obi-Wan?

Also, Pademe is very forgiving of the whole genocide thing. Ani pulls it off twice and she's still cool. Man. My wife would be really upset if I ever did that.

I know there are a lot of takes on it but I think this is why Vader was the one, when it is all said and done, the force is no longer in parts but a whole 'one force' not ying and yang, Luke never lost his passion.

 

[Particle_Man]

It would have been fun to have folks spreading rumors about how Padme got knocked up. Everyone knew she was pregnant, but no one knew of the marriage?

Maybe everyone thought it was one of those "son of no father" deals.

 

[KidCthulhu]

It would have been fun to have folks spreading rumors about how Padme got knocked up. Everyone knew she was pregnant, but no one knew of the marriage?

Apparently there was a big sign on the Galactic Senate bathroom wall. "For a good time, call Padme. Special rates for Jedi."

 

[Cthulhudrew]

Anakin never said who he was talking about. Anakin said he saw someone close to him die. Yoda told him not to miss the dead. Why? Because you HAVE to let go. Its a simple part of life, and then add in the Force, if you don't let go you're doomed to fall to the Dark Side. So its even MORE important that Jedi learn to let go and accept certain things as the way life works.

Anakin never could, which was the root of his problem.

With Chewie, Yoda simply said goodbye. It had nothing to do with death at all. There's a difference between saying "Miss not the dead." and "Goodbye, miss you I will." One is accepting an inevitability in the way life works, and the other is simply acknowledging a friendship in a farewell.

But Yoda also told him that visions are often clouded by one's emotions, so it was possible that his loved one might not actually die, in which case letting go and accepting it would simply be, IMO, callous and cold. Not to mention that, since she wasn't dead (accuracy of vision notwithstanding), again, treating her as if she was already gone is just callous.

Maybe it's the phrasing (or the dyslexic sentence structure) of Yoda's that just struck the wrong chord. If he'd said, as you have, "death is a natural part of life, accept that it happens to us all, and embrace the time you have to spend with someone", rather than (as it came across to me), "let them go. Don't be attached to them, because caring leads to negative emotions and the Dark Side", it wouldn't have bothered me so much.

 

[Cthulhudrew]

My big thing was that here Anakin was living with Padme, she's preggers, and Obi-Wan doesn't figure it out until the end.

It also makes me wonder a little about Yoda. He knows, because Ani tells him, that Ani has strong feelings for someone. Who'd he think it was? Obi-Wan?

Evidently, the Dark Side was clouding more than just the Force- it seems to have affected the Jedi's common sense, too.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Maybe it's the phrasing (or the dyslexic sentence structure) of Yoda's that just struck the wrong chord. If he'd said, as you have, "death is a natural part of life, accept that it happens to us all, and embrace the time you have to spend with someone", rather than (as it came across to me), "let them go. Don't be attached to them, because caring leads to negative emotions and the Dark Side", it wouldn't have bothered me so much.

Yoda told him the Jedi way...which is the more callous don't get attached because caring is more dangerous than not.

Of course, by the end of Sith, he and Obi-Wan have picked up on this being one of the major problems with what happened to the Jedi Order.

 

[Plane Sailing]

True, but I guess my surprise comes not from the fact that he lives up to his character as described by Windu, but that anyone would willingly follow such a complete coward into battle, knowing he won't be there to see the thing through when it gets sticky.

It seems to me that the main characteristic that you want in your generals is great strategy and perhaps tactics. Having good escape plans could be seen as a logical extension of someone who is good at planning and executing plans.

People would follow him because of, say, the chain of command. Also perhaps because he had great plans which normally worked?

Cheers