What do you like about the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy?

[Mr Light]

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Vader never wants to return to Tatooine because that's where his mother died and where he grew up, it reminds him of his human past. Also it's not part of the Empire so unless an Imperial force shows up hunting for missing droids you're pretty safe there.

Vader does recognize the broken up Threepio on Bespin, that's why he returns it to Chewie to fix up.

 

[shapeshifter]

IMO the PT has only a few things going for it, it does accomplish foreshadowing the OT, some pretty snazzy SFX and the ability to kill an afternoon of free time.

 

[Colonel Green]

The Battle Droids and the Senate building. That's about it.

 

[DWF]

I thought they were epics made on a huge scale, with some great action, visual effects, music, sound effects and great actors. I love rewatching them.

 

[MyCylon]

The music, most of all. John Williams just always seems to deliver.

I also like many of the cast members but I feel they were totally underused (Jackson and Neeson are probably the prime examples). I also like some of the designs as well as some of the CGI work which was really impressive in parts.

I think the biggest gripe I have that too much time was spent on young Anakin that was sorely missing later on in Episode 3.

 

[Mr Light]

I always thought that "The Phantom Menace" was only worthy plot-wise of being in a novel. This makes "Attack of the Clones" Episode I and then Episode II is a compilation of the Clone Wars micro-series ending with Grevious invading Coruscant.

 

[Nardpuncher]

These senate guards are excatly the sort of thing I dreamed about seeing whenever I thought of the prequels back in the late 80s, when we weren't sure if we'd ever get them.

http://www.reelcollectibles.co.nz/images/starwars/gg/gentle_giant_star_wars_senate_guard_statue.jpg

 

[JediKnightButler]

-They dropped the whole Master Syfodyas (sp?) thing they set up in Episode II regarding the clone army. That actually had some potential, I thought.

Yeah, it would've been nice for there to have been some follow up in the movie, particularly at the end of AOTC, since Obi-Wan was the first one to stumble across the existence of the Clone Army in the first place. However, James Luceno's "Labyrinth of Evil" (which takes place at the end of the Clone Wars and leads into ROTS) does help fill in the blanks about the creation of the Clone Army and Dooku and Sidious' role in its creation, including why Obi-Wan was unable to find Kamino within the Jedi archives (even though it was pretty clearly hinted at in AOTC).

This article explains things pretty well. It was supposed to be Sido-Dyas - a clear alter-ego for Sidious until Lucas changed his mind.

Thanks for the link. The story is pretty much like I remember it from Luceno's book except for some of the other parts about Dooku preserving his body and the IBC using him for a blood transfusion for Grievous and then Dooku giving Grievous his lightsaber. Interesting. I think I remember a lot of people speculating prior to ROTS about whether or not Sifo-Dyas might've been a cover name for Sidious although that theory never really held up well for me because Obi-Wan clearly knew that he was a former Jedi master who had died around the time of TPM and we know that Palpatine/Sidious had NEVER been part of the Jedi Order so I figured that his placement of the order had to have been genuine. The subsequent chain of events fit together nicely.

 

[JediKnightButler]

I always thought that "The Phantom Menace" was only worthy plot-wise of being in a novel. This makes "Attack of the Clones" Episode I and then Episode II is a compilation of the Clone Wars micro-series ending with Grevious invading Coruscant.

I agree with you on that. I've always felt that TPM, while a decent movie, felt more like an extended prologue rather than a self-contained story. It probably would've been better suited to a novel, particularly considered that it is so FAR removed from the most important events in the PT and does little more than establish the PT universe and characters. Episodes II & III (plus the Clone Wars series/microseries) are the real "meat" of the PT IMHO. It might've been nice for AOTC to become Episode I, then do a movie set sometime during the Clone Wars which would become Episode II (hopefully including Ventress), and then move onto ROTS as Episode III.

 

[Mr Light]

And dialogue in AOTC pretty much catches you up if you didn't "read" TPM. You know that Anakin met Padme as a kid and is obsessed with her, you know Anakin was a slave, you know about Anakin's Mom. You don't really need to know about Qui-Gon or Darth Maul or the Nemoidans or how Palpatine got elected.

After all, the events in "Labyrinth of Evil" were just as eventful as TPM! And it also answered a ton of questions and directly set up ROTS.