The Disappointment of Padme

[DWF]

Why would someone need a reason to try to find something to hate? People either like a movie, or they don't. A person don't need to search for reasons to not like a movie.
I don't care what we would be shown. What we were shown was Padme ineffectively whinging on the sidelines as the Emperor takes over the galaxy.
So if Obama showed up looking like a monster, claiming he was injured during an assassination attempt, offering no proof that such an attempt took place, it would make sense to vote him into office for life?

The novel had a doctored recording of the assassination attempt and he might've shown it before Padme showed up.

 

[Ithekro]

Audio recording of the Jedi showing up. Palpatine messured his words until after killing the first two or three Jedi quickly, then yelled for help, jumped back and put his lightsaber through the recording device. Then proceeded to fight Mace like a Sith Lord.

 

[DWF]

Audio recording of the Jedi showing up. Palpatine messured his words until after killing the first two or three Jedi quickly, then yelled for help, jumped back and put his lightsaber through the recording device. Then proceeded to fight Mace like a Sith Lord.

Exactly he doctored the recording, still we knew the truth and that's all that mattered.

 

[TremblingBluStar]

The novel had a doctored recording of the assassination attempt and he might've shown it before Padme showed up.

That's entirely possible, but like the novel of Star Trek V giving an explanation of how the Enterprise made it to the center of the galaxy in a few days, if it wasn't in the movie, it doesn't count.

 

[Ithekro]

It is enough that it exists.

 

[Set Harth]

When exactly was he a good friend, and not a whining jerk?

You act as if those are mutually exclusive.

Sure, the Clone Wars series does show Obi-Wan and Anakin being friends, but you never actually get that sense from the movies.

Except when you do. The way they interact in the opening act of ROTS, for example, is equal to TCW in this respect.

I think it was just sloppy writing mostly, as seems to be the case through the prequels. Leia should have been with Padme for awhile, to coincide with Leia's vague memory of her.

Not sloppy writing, a deliberate change. How do you think the original concept would have played out on screen? What do you think people would have said about it?

But its like Anakin's lightsaber, could have been a great scene for Obi-Wan and Anakin to have, to entrust Obi-Wan to give Anakin's lightsaber to Luke, instead it makes Obi-Wan seem even more of a liar. So much of the prequels missed the boat.

Just how "great" would this scene have been, though? It's not like Anakin would have just handed over his lightsaber to Obi-Wan at some point, not being done with it and all - so what we're really talking about here is a scene where Anakin says to Obi-Wan, pretty much out of context, "In the event that I die before you do - snicker - I want my kid to have this." It would exist only to tick off a box, like the "3PO must be memory-wiped" scene.

 

[Peach Wookiee]

Threepio's memory, but not R2's. Proof that R2 is smarter than Threepio...

 

[Ithekro]

Well either he knows when to keep his "mouth" shut...or his swearing filter keeps anyone form knowing when he's not telling a tall tale.

 

[Peach Wookiee]

Probably a little of both, I think. R2 knows he'll be disregarded by Threepio ("Yeah, he thinks he's awesome. I am better than that stuffy protocol droid...") and that most humans don't understand him. So he can keep whistling Dixie...