Revenge of the Sith - end of the prilogy

Well you knew it was coming.  Being a fairly avid Star Wars fan (short of dressing up in character), I had to have to toss my hat into the ring regarding commenting on how this prilogy ended.  That's right, prilogy.  I'm the worst English major ever.  Anyway, I figure that by now I've waited long enough so that anyone who cares enough about the outcome to be upset by spoilers will have already seen it.  So here goes...

As many others have already stated, it was the best of these new-fangled movies by far.  Still whiney and not quite true to the campy Star Wars tradition, but decent.  The writing was poor, but it's Star Wars.  The banter in the original movies was entertaining, but not all that much better writing.  Just less whiney, really.  This last one tried to get back a little of the dry sarcasm of the originals, but this was far overshadowed by their reliance on physical humor.  This was a bit frustrating.  Also, Padme sucked.  The character was ridiculous in this last movie and cried the whole time.  Not cool.

When droids are so effective against everyone but jedi and the jedi have been all but exterminated, why did they go back to primarily storm troopers?  A few things like that don't make sense.  I mean, why did they need clone wars when they had fighting robots that could shoot things and provide comic relief at the same time?

I know on some level that no movie would have lived up to the originals in my mind.  However, many of the books have been fantastic and I've loved almost as much as the movies, so I don't see why this is the case.  This leads me to believe that the movie could have been better.  Maybe it was hard to create new, rounded characters to love, but I find that hard to believe since characters like Marra Jade and the jedi academy trainees were introduced later on and connected effortlessly to the Star Wars universe.  I'm a dork, but I loved those books even though I knew they were just like junk food; wonderful and addictive yet empty calories somehow.

I'm happy the prilogy's done.  I'm glad I saw the movie, was not completely disappointed and that it ended on an up note.  I'm left a little frustrated, after all the coolness of the first Star Wars movies, that was all the Star Wars story would become.

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[elena]

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elena