Star Wars Prequels??!!!

Do you know how many planets are in the Star Wars universe. Obviously it is huge, and obviously everyone seems to know everyone. I won't explain this again...

Is it that amazing to see that Boba's armor is the same as the clone troopers? Originally in the EU it said that it was Mandalorian armor...GL continues to change the past in the PT of his characters, events, etc.

I am an old fan of the original trilogy
I know Owen and Beru know 3PO but, I am saying they do not know it's him cause he does not introduce himself.
you can say that vader does not recognize c3po in ESB cause he probably doesn't think its him or he doesn't care, whats he going to do run up to him and say i made u?

True points, but the point I'm trying to make is that this is all cover up for the fact that this was all made up for the PT, and was not in the original plans.

Lucas has never been one to obey or listen to what is said in the EU, cause not everyone looks at that stuff. and that's fine with me.

again true, but i still think that connecting every character basically was kind of lame...

we don't know if it was part of the original plan or not. lucas probably had this all in his head from the time he called the 1977 film episode IV.

I doubt it

I highly doubt it. If it was in his plan, it would have to be after ROTJ. GL even stated in an interview recently in Premiere magazine that there were a lot of gaps he had to fill, seeing as though he said everyone was expecting the PT to all be about Anakin's fall, and according to him, Episode 1 was about "a 10 year old boy", Episode 2 was a "love story"...(if that was its main drive, you totally failed at it)....and then he realized he had to cram everything left into Episode 3, thus he made up quite a few things last minute such as 3PO's memory being erased.

In all fairness, if you were smart you would have made the Episode 1 be about them meeting Anakin in the Clone Wars, like it was originally (he was already a great pilot, not a great pod racer) 2, be about the clone wars and the fall of the republic, the rise of the empire, end with anakin's fall, then episode 3 be about him being darth vader, killing the remaining jedi, and take more time on all that, instead of cramming it all into the 3rd one, so really I think that Episode 3 is the one I've been waiting for. If you ask me, I could totally forget the first two.

i think well have to agree to disagree
and the gaps he's talking about is making it so EPIII flows nicely into EPIV
and in all fairness they had to do something of how the emperor comes to power.

I agree that there some things that we dont and wont have a definite answer for, but they have been handled in such away that it in no way effects the enjoyment of the movies.

Something like the droids we can all say there are a million of those kind of droids, and Owen and Beru never saw gold 3P0.

True, everyone has their own opinions. But Lucas specifically said that he had to cram in the 3PO thing so that there wouldn't be a plothole.

I'm gonna have to agree with darthmaul1 on the droid thing. There are a lot of droids out there that look like C3PO and R2. It would be easy for the Lars family to forget about them two and not recognize them. It would also be very simple for Darth to do it. The red mustang tihng was a good example of how it would be these days.

But for the memory erase thing, was R2s memory erased as well? And what of the part where Obi One says that he never saw those two droids before? He spent a good time of his earlier years in the company of Anikan and those droids. Did Lucas ever find a way to explain that?

For the Small universe thing, I like to think as each planet as a city in their civilization and the planet being a state or province (depending where you're from). It's not rare to run into someone you're somehow connected to (at least not where I am from). It's logical that they're all connected though, it's mainly only through the council and the force. But adding Han into the prequals would be going too far. I have to agree on that. And Boba was useless in the PT.

I'm not sure if R2 has his memory wiped I don't think so
all obiwan said was that he doesn't seem to remember ever owning a droid, but if you watch EPIV and after r2 finishes the message he gives him a look as if "holy crap this is the same droid" and at any rate what is he going to tell luke? that i was around this droid with your father and he built 3po?? yeah right.
Boba was usless in the AOTC but it's just a little thing for the fans to see where he came from and what the armor is from, I still think it would be cool if Boba would take some growth hormones and join Anakin in the attack on the Jedi Temple and that is where the braids come from on his uniform. that would be the best surprise that Sidious tells Anakin to strom the temple and here is someone that will help you and Boba steps from the shadows.

R2 does not have his memory erased (as I have read the script). The reason is that they think 3PO will talk to much and give things away: aka Luke and Leia's birth.

There is no explanation of Obi Wan not knowing them either, another huge flaw. I don't care if there's many droids that look the same, with information like that....it woudn't matter.

Darth Maul your comments about Obi Wan's reactions are going overboard. You can try and fill in the blanks when you watch it if you want, but obviously they made the original Star Wars before that was planned out or else there would be Obi Wan's real reaction to it.

Boba Fett was indeed useless in the PT. And as for him helping Anakin storm the Jedi Temple, uhhhh.......

Mostly everything in the PT is great except for a few things...

Casting...very suspect. Jake Lloyd was forgettable, not mention annoying, and his successor gave us a lackluster performance in Ep II. I really hope Hayden is better in Ep III...the success of that movie really depends on how believable his dark side is. The scenes depicting his anger in AOTC were a real let-down for me...too much whiny, sissy nonsense that just makes me cringe. Natalie Portman is okay at best...but her building romance with Hayden has been cringeful as well...they just don't seem to gel, IMO. I'll wait until ROTS to judge Samuel L. Jackson...but I like what I see so far.

Dialogue...absolutely atrocious at times...especially between Anakin and Padme. Too bad they killed off Qui-Gon...Liam Neeson was clearly the strongest actor in TPM, and some of his dialogue was just great. The trust and faith his character held in the Force was very believable.

CGI...too much, way too much. The very definition of overkill. Don't even get me started on Jar Jar.

Lord S, you sumed up every point I agree with, as far as what faults I have with the movies, besides the fact that I wouldn't say they were great.

How about have NOBODY like Han Solo because he just doesn't fit, and instead of Luke and Leia, and R2 and 3PO, destroy the Empire. hmm? All the characters connected the tragedy from Episode III perhaps? Not some random grumpy guy who doesn't know anything about the tragedys of the past.

Han Solo is really starting to piss me off, more and more.

go away! you're not a star wars fan!

Definately not. Where's those stones?

Originally posted by DeVi| D0do
go away! you're not a star wars fan!

Very nicely put.

I agree with everyone on the fact that there was too much CGI. It's awesome for the space battles and a few aliens, but for mostly the whole movie, it is over kill.

casting could of been alittle better as well. Ewan is good as Obi-One in my opinion. So is Natalie as Padme. Only real problem I have is Anikan. Some of his delivery of his lines is just so very poor.