"The Daemon lied with every breath. It could not help itself but to deceive and dismay, to riddle and ruin. The more we conversed, the closer I drew to one singularly ineluctable fact: I would gain no wisdom here."
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Or the far simpler and much more logical explanation: He lied about her dying to complete Vader's subservience and as Captain Panaka(?) finds out: Her autopsy showed she died because her throat had been partially crushed despite no sign of external force.
Remember that Return of the Jedi explains how the children's existence was hidden from Palpatine and Empire Strikes Back as well as Shadows of the Empire explains that Palpatine didn't have a clue.
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Within your furnace heart, you burn in your own flame. This is how it feels to be Anakin Skywalker.
I feel like it's on par with TPM, though for some reason most of both films are a haze in my mind.
Beyond the Star Wars series itself though, RotS is pretty shit I think. Wooden acting, terrible dialogue, special FX that definitely didn't stand the test of time, etc. Still fun though.
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"The Daemon lied with every breath. It could not help itself but to deceive and dismay, to riddle and ruin. The more we conversed, the closer I drew to one singularly ineluctable fact: I would gain no wisdom here."
Last edited by Tzeentch on Jan 23rd, 2015 at 07:53 AM
Sith is a microcosm of the inherent flaw of the prequels: a superb story undermined by lackluster execution. I'll take the story of the prequels all day errday over the story of the classics.
McGregor, McDiarmid, and even Christensen are all fine actors. {Lucas's Anakin is an emotionally disturbed narcissist and Christensen evokes that pretty damn effectively.}
The problem is that the dialogue was hit-or-miss, in need of polishing. But the most jarring flaw is the conflict between the character's dialogue/situation and the actor's portrayal of it. RedLetterMedia pointed out Mace's ho-hum reaction to Anakin fingering Sheev as a Sith Lord. In the novel, Mace is horrified; in the film, Mace is kinda bored. "We must move quickly if the Jedi order is to be saved," he says, walking very calmly to his ship.
These flaws notwithstanding, ROTS is my second favorite SW film. When it scores, it scores big.
Hayden did a good job at portraying a character who was there but not there. His focus throughout ROTS was Padme. Some of his lines were a bit blah, but if you take his emotions for what it was, then, IMO, his blah-acting makes sense. I wouldn't expect him to be any other way, TBH.
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