Star-Wars III : petty plots in cosmic dressings...

[Jeremy]

Ack! You most certainly did not, I forgot to take your name out when I took my post a different direction.

heheh hehehe You're awful wordy Jezter, and what are you? Talking to yourself in that post?

Alright, I've obviously had way too much sugar.

 

[Vocenoctum]

And I'm perpetually bewildered by how people can like Joss Wheadon's work.

I liked Buffy 1-3, and Angel throughout mostly.
That said, I don't "like Whedon's work" in that sense. Like Lucas and some others, sometimes it seems like they have good stuff in spite of themselves, rather than because of themselves.
You can't really point at specific things and say "this is where Such N Such did his work" since they're all group projects, so who knows how much of the good or bad is actually any of them.

 

[Vocenoctum]

RangerWickett, don't you think your plot synopses are a wee bit biased?

I think some of RW's post was missing. I think the " really does nothing useful, except ally save the day." ally = accidentally. And it's true enough really, Anakin didn't do it by ability, the day was saved by accident.

I also take issue with lukewarm villains. Maul was not lukewarm. And even the Trade Federation was kind of neat, with their seemingly endless supply of droids.

The droids and the gungans were just bad, IMO. Made worse by the fact their battle had nothing much to do with much, IMO.
Maul was a neat enough guy I suppose, but frankly he WAS lukewarm. What did he do?

Frankly, though I didn't dispise Ep1, no one did anything important. Everything was by accident.

How about, "bad guy has complex, Machiavellian plot to take over galaxy. He subtly manipulates events to make it happen. It is a dark time for the Rebell-- er, the Republic.

Whoops, here's where we find out all the accidents from the first film were actually a grand intricate plan by Mr Evil.

Meanwhile, one of the queen's knights (Obi-Wan) seeks out lost knowledge and fights a villain (Jango Fett) whose son will later resurfance as a thorn in the Rebellion's side.

Again, none of it matters, refer back to Intricate Plan above.

Meanwhile, the boy with magical powers falls in love with a princess. (Horribly written and acted, but certainly a reasonable -- even necessary -- part of the story.)

Actually, it's sad. That's really what the prequels were supposed to be (to me), was the story of Anakin and Vader. The Core Plot was badly written and chemistry was non-existent throughout the trilogy. It was like the actors were in different rooms during their dialogue.

It ends in a climactic battle in which many knights die, and the power shifts in favor of the bad guy.

Jedi drop in, are quickly overwhelmed, thus proving Jedi were dumb.

Surrounded by stressful situations which he is too immature to handle, and played upon by the conniving bad guy, the young boy reluctantly succumbs to evil. The remaining knights might have saved the boy had they not been blinded by their desire to use him against the bad guy. In a climactic battle, the young boy -- now fully turned to evil -- tragically kills the princess before being (almost) mortally wounded by the great knight. But the good guys have (temporarily) lost, and the two remaining knights -- one old, one young -- withdraw in disgrace. The bad guy cackles evilly....

I have so many problems with Ep3, I can't narrow it down to post them!

Again though, bad acting, bad dialogue, bad chemistry, bad graphics, assanine weaponry and tactics...

Here's a hint, if you're going to have an intergalactic armada, instead of having missiles that launch little robots that can cut up a ship... put BOMBS on them and blow them up!