j. and i saw the new star wars episode 3. it filled in a lot of blanks ---making the story a tad bit more coherent. the light sabres have been juiced up substantially. as usual the visual effects are
spectatcular ---but the star wars series has raised the bar substantially since the first episode so we expect the visual display without surprise and awe.
episode 4 the ,first one, remains the best.
in episode three jar jar binks thankfully has a rather minor role (although it's as a senator!) but lots of time unfortunately is
given to the equally unappealing character of general grievous who seems to have an
asthmatic cough no doubt exacerbated by his chilled thorax open to the air and seemingly constructed of radio shack quality spare parts (really, lucasfilm should be able to do better than this).
although lucas says that he is finished with the series it's hard to believe that the draw of
hundreds of millions of dollars will not ultimately result in at least several more in the series pre-
prequel and post-sequel.
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Let's set aside the absurdity that I'm commenting about this instead of the revelation of Deep Throat.
Couple comments:
(a) Jar-Jar was a Senator in Episode II, also. Apparently, he is the best that the race of Steppin' Fetchits/Buckwheats have to offer.
(b) And, in that same vein, I thought it was interesting that Lukas changed the voice of the evil trade federation guys (apparently, their names are and ) to sound less like Chinese laundrymen from "Your Show Of Shows" and more like three-pack-a-day smokers. Definitely an improvement.
(c) The names of the bad-guy characters really bug me. "Darth Sidious," "General Grevous" and "Count Dooku" ... now, I'm no Latin scholar, but I feel like they could have been a little more clever. It's a miracle that he didn't name Luke Skywalker Hero McChampion.
(d) Did it seem to anyone else like Grevous was a robot? A long time ago, in other galaxies -- those far away -- did robots age? I mean, once your robot starts walking with a limp, can you save the hard drive and sell him for spare parts?
Sorry about that. I previewed it and there weren't any problems.
According to Rolling Stone, Lucas had a terrible cold during the filing and his voice was so horrible that they actually they used it to record to voice for General Grievous.
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