"It's supposed to be shittily acted" is always one of the worst ways to possibly defend a movie. Stylistic suck is still suck. Just because you understand what they were trying to do doesn't mean nor replace that they also fucked that delivery up.
before the prequels I thought that to be Yoda just coming up with some bullshit to make Luke show that he wanted to really fight for it
Anakin acted wooden before he joined the Order. Mediocre dialogue and bad acting.
But Anakin isn't supposed to be stoic; he's supposed to be awkward, unsure of himself, the Dark Side finding him vulnerable and easy to manipulate. So yes, they did deliver on the premise.
Nope. He was hopeful and kind, a bright-eyed naive boy.
Nope. Yoda had way more options to fuck with him other than the age thing.
Of course a trannie supporter turns out to be a child murderer.
Anakin probably just gave ''her'' a pep talk so ''she'' would be comfortable getting blown to bits on the battlefield.
THAT IS THE BEGINNING OF THE DECLINE. Many people who criticized the Prequels cited the fact that nobody was willing to question Lucas, and ROTJ showed that in spades. People should've asked questions over how easily the Empire falls apart and how rushed it all feels, how Vader seems out of character from one movie to the next. But they all nodded and said yes because they couldn't question Lucas.
Gary Kurtz was not involved with ROTJ, he was there previously to tell George "No". His absence can be clearly seen. Kurtz does not get the credit he deserves for the SW films (and other films). He was very creative but very grounded.
Another example of how important having someone on staff to tell you "no don't that's retarded" or "love the idea, but let's reframe and tighten it" is Anne Rice. She very famously became arrogant after her first few vampire books did gangbusters and demanded total control over her works. She essentially demanded that her publisher release as is, without any editing. This was because she genuinely did not like getting those critiques and felt it was a pain in the ass.
-Your Autisticness, Star Wars made Obiwan gay! Despite the peacenik mando chick!
Whenever I read CIS I thibk of a pooner or tranny yelling at Dooku.
Daala disagrees between chocking noises caused by Tarkin's Pocket Death Star saber.
Same as DnD wheelchairs. The politics must ve copypasted so you can't escape the Message!
The Downs is strong with they/them.
That is fucking retarded take. I guess the British Empire nor the Romans didn't exist because its not Murrika. And that's before the judentakes about the germans and russians.
The British Empire relied on the consent of many local elites to run, as well as many local soldiers who are not white Britons. Sepoys and Raj, people. As for Rome, they eventually ran out of Romans to serve in the armed forces, so they replaced them with barbarian soldiers, and that led to the Empire's fall in 476 AD when those soldiers went on strike and deposed the Emperor.
Not the same. The Spanish Inquisition had genuine support from the populace who supported their persecution of religious minorities whom the people didn't really like, since these minorities denied Christ, as opposed to the Imperium which terrorised and enslaved their people. And once again, tons of local tribals helped enforce Spanish rule overseas. Especially since most of Spain's army was at home fighting European wars.
No, the distorted view is saying that the British and Spanish Empires ruled like tyrannies when in reality, their dominions depended on the consent of the governed, and when they lost that, they lost their empires. When the indigenous tribes who populated Britain's empire had enough of their shit, and Britain couldn't bribe enough of them to be quiet, their empire crumbled. When enough creole nobles rebelled against Spain, their empire fell apart.
The Imperium is anarchic. The only thing holding it together is the threat of being bombed if they don’t pay taxes. Such taxes are to keep producing so much stuff to fund wars that it drives rulers to be cruel to their people, to not care about the environment or worker health. 20 hour shifts every day and so on. It’s British history driven to the extreme. Industrial Revolution child labor and destructive coal mining while London is being bombed by football hooligans and a bunch of weirdos in big hats are burning witches.
That's because it was made by people who were angsty about how bad empires are in general, and they had a bit of a Black Legend kick along with the Industrial Revolution studies, to be particular. They weren't making a world that could feasibly be logical; they were making a world that was fucking balls-to-the-wall insane. Trying to make sense of it is pointless, unless you come from a certain point of view that demonizes religion, monarchy, and the military.
Not quite. The majority of the Imperial Military are citizens who supported it. Most of their soldiers are consenting adults who made the choice to fight and die for the throne. The majority of the senators approved of the Empire in the first place and continued to vote yes on everything Palpatine did. You seem to underestimate how much people hated the anarchy of the Old Republic and the chaos of the Clone Wars. The Empire wouldn't have such a massive force of volunteers if it wasn't popular. That, and the SWEU shows that the life of the average Imperial citizen was comfortable so long as you're not one of the 1% of the people they decided to fuck with. If the Empire was that unpopular, you'd find entire sectors and fleets defecting to the Rebellion in droves, and over half the Rebel fleet on Endor would be turncoat Imperial vessels manned by Imperials who defected to the Alliance and spray-painted the Alliance bird on their ISDs, TIEs, and Stormtrooper armor.
@LORD IMPERATOR already made a lot of great points about why Anakin needed to be an older child when he first appears due to the rules in jedi training as outlined in ESB, but it's also a brilliant move for Anakin's narrative. When we meet Anakin he's got the purity and hopefulness to do good across the galaxy in a way no one other than a child could, he even states that all he wants to do is help people. Next time we see him he's 20 years old, where you would rather we meet him first but without seeing him as a child of pure innocence none of the events going forward would have an impact. When we see Anakin at 20, everything the Council warned Anakin about is starting to come true, that his tendency to form attachments (as kids do) would create his downfall (especially Anakin's attachment towards life). We see Anakin at his most innocent and pure as a child where he says he just wants to help people but as he grew up he had to confront the fact that he couldn't even save his own mother who he loved the most. This making him double down on his need to save everyone and making the promise on his mother's grave that he will never fail again, this is what goes on to create Darth Vader. All of that would be missing if you just start with Anakin as some military dude, and I've seen the re-edits that cut most of Phantom Menace out and they are all so shallow compared to the full story, I can't believe people prefer that stuff to be cut.
The contrast with Anakin being a pure-hearted child and a young man with doubts are what makes the story interesting. If he was just some military dude the Jedi pick up who turns to the Dark Side, that just comes off as hippie bullshit, about how anyone with a military slant is more susceptible to evil, when real life proves that isn't the case. Having Anakin be a wide-eyed idealist getting turkey-slapped with reality, with him realizing that the Jedi and the Republic aren't what they marketed themselves as, helps justify the doubts in his mind, which then plants the seeds of the Dark Side that Sidious nourishes and grows through the course of the films and the SWEU. The fact that Palpatine has faith in Anakin while the Jedi don't goes to show why Anakin chose Palpatine in the end instead of the Jedi.
Not only that, but the Dark Side saps the life out of you. Looking at the Emperor, dude looks like he's 100 instead of 70. Sure, we later learn that's because the Force Lightning was blasted unto his face, but some already speculate that all the lightning did was blow off the disguise and show the reality underneath; a man twisted by the powers of darkness. Vader was almost as dark as Palpatine, so of course, that reality would reflect unto his face.
