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Dammit, this piece by Keith Martin almost makes me want to re-watch the Star Wars prequels, it's so goddamn brilliant:

Then, on the verge of escape, Vader himself turns up only yards from both of his children, one of whom is leaking Force all over the place. Obi-Wan stages a distraction by letting himself die and go into the Force while the others escape. At this point, Chewie suddenly realises that he's been left in charge, not only of the Death Star Plans and the survival of the Rebellion but of the secret son and daughter of Darth Vader. With the Organas and Kenobi all dead, only Chewie, R2 and Yoda know who Luke and Leia are. And only Ob-Wan knew where Yoda has been hiding. Chewie is stressed out by the responsibility and R2 (who keeps making crude jokes about the whole affair) is being no help at all.

A re-interpretation of episodes 4-6 given what we learned in 1-3, it really does put an interesting spin on the flicks. And I love the concept of R2 and Chewie as the masterminds behind most of the events in A New Hope.

Also a podcast I need to check out is "How to Succeed in Evil":

How to Succeed in Evil is not a self-help page for the maladjusted. It it is the story of Edwin Windsor, Evil Efficiency Consultant. He’s like Arthur Anderson for Supervillians.

Just because a person can melt walls by winking at them or build a device to threaten the very fabric of our reality doesn’t mean that they know how to manage investments or squeeze money out of a scheme. Just look at M.C. Hammer. (Not that’s he’s evil or super — just that he’s exquistely bad with money.)

But the problem with supervillians is that they are all too egomaniacal to listen to good advice. (They always pay, but they never listen.) So Edwin gets so fed up with this state of affairs and decides to go into business for himself. This results in an efficient, ruthless (and often very funny) brand of evil.

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[rexluscus.livejournal.com]

*sigh* The last prequel had such potential. I could almost make out the good movie in there. The scene where the Jedi are all getting massacred? Awesome! I felt like that scene was actually taking place in the Star Wars universe I know. And I actually liked the rationale for Anakin turning to teh Dark Side. There was the beginnings of real characterization there. Too bad it got castrated, and Darth Vader had that awful "NOOOOOO!!!" bit at the end. *vomits*

Ironically, I think it was the emphasis on the kewl FX that killed the movies for me. If it had been more story/characters and less of that shit, it could have had a chance. But you know? In a way, Lucas almost HAD to include all that filler FX stuff. Because if he hadn't, everyone would have trashed him for not upping the FX ante, since that's what he's always done. Lowest common denominator and all. *sigh* Can't please everyone all teh time.

*mourns for what could have been*

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

And now I know all the important stuff about the prequels without ever actually having to *watch* them!