[kaneda]

An excellent opinion raven and one that Ive been trying to explain to my friends (and failing to do so). Think I'll just email them your post.

The film does have fundamental flaws in relation to the original films that Lucas obviously didn't think about (e.g. padame dies at the end of the film, so how can leia in return of the jedi discuss with luke about how she does rememeber her mother? Even if she's jus remembering what people have told her about padame, the fact that she says "she died when i was very little" suggests that she spent some time with padame instead of just being handed over to obi wan).

Vader's turn to the darth side seemed too simplistic, and i was actually confused in the cinema (considering that i was laughing hard at palpatines face melting, and that voice of his that came from out of nowhere <you will now be *huge breathy gasp* darth vader>). I can't understand how lucas could have made anakins transition from the jedi to the dark side so easy? I'm going to see it again next week (and this time I'm going to try not to laugh too much at that scene).

But saying all that, combined with ravens criticisms, i dont agree that it was the worst film out of the lot. The fact that i was actually able to sit through this film without getting bored, that i wasnt thinking ffs throughout it, AND the fact that i got excited with the fight between anakin and obi wan (which has been the whole point of these films) says that they're not that bad, and im actually looking forward to seeing the film again.

On a final note, another thing i was confused about was yoda. He runs away to the degoba (or however you spell it) because he's failed? That confused me.

Essentially the main problem with all these films was that they were written by george lucas, the man cannot write and the man does not think ideas though. He has a beginning concept, an end concept and he doesn't think about what has to go in the middle. Instead he creates things as he goes along and hopes that people wont notice them.

Heres betting that at some point he makes films about what happens after return of the jedi, i.e. leia and han have a son the son has the force strong blah blah blah