solo is from Corellia
yes. and there's still plenty of time for Chewie to be enslaved by the Empire and freed by a young Han Solo.
so the EU story goes...he's a freaking Prince.
no.
(warning: what is to follow may be the geekiest thing i have ever posted anywhere)
one of his ancestors was briefly ascended the throne of Corellia on false pretenses, was found out, overthrown and lynched or something. Threepio seems to have caught a partial reference to these events, and mistakenly informs Han he's the rightful Prince of Corellia.
later, he realizes his error, and nearly interrupts the wedding of Han and Leia to correct the story, but someone (Luke, i think), shuts him up.
as such, some may believe Han is a prince, including Han himself, but he is not. in any case, all of this is moot since Corellia has not been a monarchy for some time.
Lucas' trademark horrible dialogue (from the man who refers to dialogue as a sound effect, and has himself described his own dialoue as 'clunky', this is not a surprise, of course)
it seems bizarre and unfair to me to lambast Lucas for his crappy dialogue at the same time that you acknowledge that he considers dialogue to be a sound effect.
realistic dialogue is clearly not a priority to him, because the narrative weight in the SW movies is meant to be carried by the visuals, not the dialogue. it seems that you are criticizing him for his failure to do something he's explicitly not trying to do.
he's trying to tell a story primarily through visuals. this is a world where you know that someone's become evil because they enter stage left having changed lightsaber colors and put on a black cloak. that's the narrative meat - the dialogue is just window dressing. you could probably watch all six movies and follow the entire story with the sound off, or at the very least without the dialogue but with the score. that's his intent, and on that level i think it succeeds. to a certain extent, i would be more inclined to call the work a failure because it includes dialogue at all, when it's clearly superfluous, than making an issue of the quality of the dialogue.
There's no sense of time passing or distance
i'm not sure what you mean here.
Padme's entire pregancy takes place in the blink of an eye, and she never looks that big anyway.
it's worth noting that the twins are delivered early due to Padme's injuries.
The pacing is rambling and disjointed.
the pacing in the beginning is totally fucked, and to a certain extent this throws off the rest of the movie, but i think it gels a lot better after the clunky space battle is over.
And they destroy Vader as a cultural icon in barely two minutes.
well, i will disagree here only because i think Vader's a big enough cultural icon to withstand the awfulness of that scene.
Kenobi refers to Palpatine as 'the Emperor', when he has no way of knowing what's literally just occurred in the Senate, and when he'd be far more likely to refer to him as a Sith Lord.
i don't recall exactly how that part of it went down, but if nothing else, i'm sure that kind of thing gets broadcast publicly. i'm sure he could have been listening to C-SPAN on his gizmo or something. it's not like it's a secret.
Kenobi watches CCTV of the bad guys conspiring (ha! fucking stupid baddies!) and, despite the fact that we've LITERALLY JUST WATCHED THE SCENE THE FOOTAGE IS BASED ON, Lucas thinks we won't notice that all the dialogue is from a different part of that scene (CCTV - The Director's Cut!).
it's not from the previous scene. it's new footage. the scene we saw was in Palpatine's office in the Senate. the security footage is from inside the Jedi Temple. Anakin swears himself to the Sith, goes over and kills everyone in the Temple, then Palpatine comes over to make sure things went OK. i will agree that the scenes are too similar, and that that's caused a lot of confusion, but that's a separate issue.
Padme somehow knows exactly where Anakin is at the end, even though, as far as I recall, he never told her.
you recall poorly. he tells her he's going to Mustafar to kill people or whatever. from the looks of the planet, there aren't many places on it he could be.
Kenobi and Anakin fight right next to an ocean of lava without appearing even to get that sweaty
and TIE fighters make screeching sounds in the vacuum of space. what's your point?
this saga has never been about that level of realistic detail. i mean, if you're complaining that they don't seem to be sweaty enough, why not point out that they should probably be choking to death on poisonous fumes or suffering heatstroke?
Kenobi has that glorious moment when he 'realises' that Padme and Anakin have been fucking (some best buddy).
he's known. it's just not polite to bring it up under normal circumstances.
Palpatine kills the Jedi, the galaxy's ancient police force, and tells the Senate they've gone bad, and gets a standing ovation when he arbitrarily announces a new Empire.
it's more complicated than that. one, Palpatine has always played up the reluctant leader shtick. two, the Jedi aren't very popular because they sit up in their Ivory Tower with their heads up their asses while the galaxy falls apart, and they were unable to prevent the war. three, the Jedi are unpopular because Dooku is a Jedi, and people believe that the whole war may have been a plot by the Jedi to take over the galaxy. finally, the Republic's pretty unpopular because it's non-functional, as seen in Episode I where they can't pass a freaking tax bill without starting a war.
the whole point of the prequel trilogy is that people are generally willing to support a tyrant when they've been made to fear chaos and disorder and trumped-up outside enemies. it's definitely something that could have been explored more, you're right, but it makes perfect sense in the movie. |
