If only we could go back to that period of innocence.
I remember watching it on opening night and the thrill I felt when the Lucas films logo appeared and then the opening music.
"OMG it is really about to happen" :'(
Two hours later I was crying for another reason.
Those first few moments may have been the last happy ones of my life...
eh, I actually liked it until the end....it took some time to sink in.
I don't know how, but I was able to block Jar Jar out, and chalked the kid off to just being a kid. That final battle was just so fucking epic in the theater, though.
It's weird...I probably saw it in the theater 6 times that summer--as much as I actually disliked it--I don't know, I just needed new Star Wars. I think it's because we all knew it was bad, but still held out hope that by the second one, we would get Darth Vader becoming Darth Vader and murdering the fuck out of some Jedis. We still had hope, you see. The ending, the first time, was rather promising, not knowing what was to actually come. Palpatine to Anakin: I expect great things from this one!
YESSSSSSS!
Episode 2 ruined all of that. Lucas said "it would be dark." what a bunch of shit. Not until the final act of episode 3 did it become dark, and then we're given the spectacle of "Darth Vader" making his bones by murdering 6 year-old younglings....um, WHAT THE FUCK? every god damn jedi that was murdered in that movie was murdered by a fucking 1st gen storm trooper. Now, we've been conditioned to know that storm troopers can't hit a god damn thing, so are we supposed to think that those 2nd or 3rd gen clones in the original series are somewhat more inferior? It doesn't really matter, though--because STORM TROOPERS CAN'T MURDER JEDIS!
yeah, I actually kind of admire Lucas's demonic raping of his own baby, much to our displeasure, but the absolute last thing I imagined him doing was taking away the icon that was Darth Vader, and replacing him with a PMS'ing emo boy that murders children.
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