THe whole problem with the PT is that GL doesn't give enough away. IMHO I feel he should have made clear in TPM that Palpy and Sidious are one and the same, and he could have given Dooku away for who he was. We are left with characters without any noticeable background withing the frame of the movie itself.
Personally I had LOVE to see AOTC start with Dooku arriving at Geonisis to inspect the Droid factory and meet with the accomplices of the ATTACK. If it was made clear that Dooku was Lord Tyrannus, a powerful Dark Jedi, then our loveable Christopher Lee would have cast his shadow over the entire movie. I believe it would have added much to the tension and excited: we as viewers would know what was at stake, but the gullible Jedi not.
GL wants to impose HIS way of us viewing the films, which is eps 1-6
we view it as 4-6 then 1-3, so there are no surprises for us.
ep3 is supposed to be the big revealing episode, for those who never saw the original. OMFG palpatine IS sidious!!!!!
my problem is this: since when is star wars a f'n mystery movie???
Originally posted by PVS
GL wants to impose HIS way of us viewing the films, which is eps 1-6we view it as 4-6 then 1-3, so there are no surprises for us.
ep3 is supposed to be the big revealing episode, for those who never saw the original. OMFG palpatine IS sidious!!!!!
my problem is this: since when is star wars a f'n mystery movie???
I'm sure GL wouldn't have been so subtle on TPM if it had actually BEEN the first movie. The only reason we fans "get it" is BECAUSE of 4-6.
i get way more out of vader's character now in the ot than i did before....there was no way to keep that surprise unfortunately....we had our fun 30 years or so ago, screw future generations.....
i like to watch them in the numerical order myself....
also remember going to see tpm with a friend who hadn't seen it before, he said "i got the feeling there was something going on with that senator guy", i said "dude, that was the emperor!", he nearly crapped himself.....i found him about 2 in the morning, sitting in the dark, watching my old rotj video....
rock n roll and video games are so passe, grandpa....get with the times....
there is a lot of mystery surrounding dooku's character, and there better be some kind of payoff or explanation....i agreed with queeq that dooku's character was under-utilised in aotc....i don't think a single person was surprised by the revelation that he was evil, that didn't work at all....and they sacrificed almost everything else for that one point....his big revelation that he was a sith at the end....was anyone shocked, considering he had just been waving a red sabre around for 40 minutes, and only the sith have ever had red sabres in the whole saga?....lucas wasted lee a bit in that film....but there were lots of interesting (and possibly unanswerable) questions raised by his too brief appearance...