About Anakin

I totally disagree...you can't capture the glory of the Clone Wars in one film...not by a long shot. What are you gonna say...three years passes in 5 min and were jump form Geonosis to Coruscant?

No offense, but I thought Kamino had some of the most sincere "action" (meaning plot, leagcy, artistry) in all of the movies.

The Clone Wars are not even IN the movie. I'm talking about the Anakin story. Who cares how the Clone Wars came to be, it's not as important as the seduction and fall of Anakin Skywalker. But that was compromised by a lot of intricate stuff that isn't that important in the end...

But the CLone Wars is the backdrop of the fall...it is inexorably tied in with his marriage to Padmé as well as his fall.

But it is supposed to be a backdrop, now it's hardly there (too bad, I thought it was called Star WARS) but it does take a lot of time...

It is awkward of Lucas to desire is as a backdrop to the action...it should BE the action of II, II.5, and III. CHaracter development through war...a concept that should have happened in the OT, but didn't...a chance to get some real SW military science fiction.

Thats why I love Karen Traviss.

It's a choice. When done well to bring out the character of Anakin, it doesn't really matter. What does matter is that Anakin is not very good film character.

Well, the concept is good, but it doesnt fit Lucas sfx style or hsi time limits.

Has nothing to do with time, it has to do with choices.

And it DOES fit his SFX style, because he always claimed the SFX were merely the TOOL for storytelling. That which he didn't display as much vigour for than he used to when he DID have major restraints.... in the OT. THose were REAL restraints: time, money and technologically. He solved it by telling a story well... Now he seems to have lost the urge to tell well.

I think he sometimes just misses the point of his own story.

Which is very ironic.

Incredibly so.

And sad.

Thank goodness for imagination and the EU.

EU????????????? *shudders*

SOME EU.

Karen Traviss and the RC game would top the list.

What does matter is that Anakin is not very good film character.

I think Anakin's a fine character. (If Anakin had been played by the same actor in I, II and III, we'd see the development the whole way, and I think we'd have invested a little more in him, just as we did the "big 3" in the OT.)

But Anakin's a seriously troubled character. You can see the seeds of his fall throughout I and II. No father. Born a poor slave child. Chose to leave his mother. Impatient, confused, distracted, angry. But that's who he is.

Maybe that's why Luke turned out so good: because he had a father figure in Owen Lars to show him the right path.

So that means Uncle Owen is the real hero of Star Wars!

YAAAYYY.... Star Wars Episode IIIa, IIIb, IIIc: The Lost Adventures of Owen Lars.

But Anakin is a flawed film chararcter because he fails to make us sympathise with him.

IIIa...Owen Lars farms.
IIIb...Owen Lars picks mushrooms of of vaporators.
IIIc...Owen Las farms.

I sympathise somewhat with Anakin...but Lucas did a real cr@ppy job on that one.

I prefer IIIc to be called Dining with the Tuskens

Originally posted by Alliance
IIIa...Owen Lars farms.
IIIb...Owen Lars picks mushrooms of of vaporators.
IIIc...Owen Las farms.

Lol. 😆