[gregebowman]

Wish I could have put in my 2 cents earlier, but this is the first time I've been on since sometime Last week. As far the SW3 title, it could have been worse. Yes, it is reminiscient of SW6's title, but IIRC, GL changed the name to trick those who were trying to make a profit from the movie long before it came out. Such things like posters and other stuff were already coming out before the movie was released with the original title. He changed it a few months before the movie was to come out to thwart them.

I loved the original trilogy. I was 14 in May of 77 (has it been that long?), and remember that film fondly. I liked what Lucas did in 97 when he remade them, except for one thing. He should have kept the scene where Han Solo shot Greedo. Adding that part where Greedo's hand comes out with a bLaster still doesn't sit with me. I know since ROTJ he's dumbed down the storylines to cater to children or the really geeky nerds, but I wish he would have left that particular scene alone in the special edition.

As far as TPM and AOTC, I was really disappointed. Especially in TMP. Jar Jar was like fingernails going down a chalkboard to me. Since we didn't really have the droids throughout the whole movie to give us comic relief, he had to come up with Jar Jar. Maybe the idea behind Jar Jar was right, but the way he created his personality and wrote his lines was horrific. I didn't particular care for the way Anakin's origin was presented either. They talk about the Force being this all surround energy force that those with the right genes can use to influence things. But saying the Force actually created Anakin to bring balance to the force was nothing but horse-puckey. That's saying the Force was a sentient entity who is willing to affect things to it's own ideas. GL could have made it where Anakin's father was a passing Jedi who either died or kept on going, instead of a miraculous conception.

As far as AOTC, I liked it a whole lot better than TPM. Unfortunately, GL can't write a love scene to save his life. I thought all of the scenes with Anakin and Padme were forced, and didn't see how Padme could fall in love with Anakin in such a short time. They only knew each other for a few days or weeks in TPM, when she was 14 and he was 8 or 9. Then they meet again 10 years later only because Obi-Wan and Anakin happen to be on Coruscant at the same time that Padme was. That seemed too coincidental to me. If he couldn't come up with a decent way for them to fall in love, he should have gotten someone else to write those scenes. Especially after he admitted to wiping out a whole Tusken Raider village, children and all. At least the Last 45 minutes or so made up for the rest of the movie. I just wish Jango Fett had survived. He was too cool of a character to be wasted away like that.

As far as my thoughts on SW3, I don't know. I hope he can fit all of the known Star Wars facts in a 2 1/2 hour movie: Anakin going to the Dark Side, the fight with Obi-Wan resulting in him falling into a lava pit, thus forcing him to wear the respirator for the rest of his life. I wander if they will show it was Anakin's idea or Palpatine's (spoiler for those who don't know who the Emperor really was) to make that part of his persona, thus creating Darth Vader. Also, Chewbacca is going to be in this film. I don't know what part he will have in the saga at that point, but I'm hoping they show a young Han Solo rescuing him from slavery, thus making Han a disgraced Imperial officer. I'd also love to see the sabacc game in which Han won the Millenium Falco from Lando. Also, there surely will show the twins being born and split up, with Obi-Wan obviously being sent to keep an eye out for Luke. What little we know of Padme, she does survive for awhile, enough for Leia to remember her. I wander what her final fate was? If anyone knows from whatever website you may visit, keep it to yourself. I'll wait to find out for myself next May.