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Some thoughts:

• Who knew it was pronounced ka-SHEIK? I'd been pronouncing it CASH-ick.


• I hate hate hate hate hate Padmé with a burning passion. She got progressively worse as the prequels went on... from humoring Anakin's creepy "Are you an angel?" comments to putting up with his streams of drool down her shoulder to the pathetic and disgusting lines and delivery of Episode III. I am not one to be militantly feminist or anything, but on behalf of women everywhere (actually, on behalf of mank ind because this would make me equally mad coming from either sex), I would like to kick her in her stupid face. Unfortunately I've forgotten the exact phrasing, but it was something along the lines of "I only live for your love!" You're a goddamned Senator and the Republic is falling apart. Here's something for you to live for, you pathetic waste of flesh*: Saving the Republic. Founding the rebellion. Raising your kid(s). Actually doing something instead of going "Oh, I was so wrong about you, I guess I'll have to die." I am even madder at her because I had taken a stupid Internet quiz a few hours before seeing the movie. I'd rather be Darth Vader than that feeb.


• Similarly: I never ever ever want to hear Natalie Portman say "I'm pregnant" again. I knew it was coming in the scene where they met up again... I knew she was going to tell him and it just felt all wrong for her to say it like that. I don't know if the word creeped me out (if it would have been any better if she'd said "I'm with child!" or "I'm going to have a baby!" or "You're going to be a father!") or if it was her delivery** that grated on me so badly. I wanted it to be over, but at the same time, I wanted it never to happen. At least she didn't say placenta.


• Did Obi-Wan know Chewbacca? Did he know of Chewbacca? Did he know that Chewbacca had saved Yoda? Or did he just know that he was a wookiee and wookiees were friends of the Jedi? Did he single Chewie out when they walked into the Cantina in EpIV? One of the things I appreciate about Episode III is that it answered a lot of questions but it created new ones.


• In EpIV, Luke says, "She's beautiful..." and R2 stops playing the message. I like to think that R2 didn't want to show him anymore because he knew what happened when his dad's dialogue started getting "romantic" and that was kind of gross that he was thinking that about his sister. He knew!!!!


• ... or did he? Who's to say that just because his memory wasn't wiped at the end of EpIII that it wasn't wiped somewhere else along the way?


• It's not something I've given a lot of thought to in the past, but one of the twins is taken to live as a princess on a beautiful mountain planet, leading rebellions and being an important figure in politics... and the other is plonked down on a moisture farm in the desert and not allowed to go to the academy and doesn't even have his name changed. COME GET ME, DAD! I'M HANGING OUT AT THE LARS' PLACE! I'm just sayin'... I'm surprised Luke doesn't get even more whiny when he finds out all of the advantages that his sister had in life that he missed out on.


• It made me sad that all the younglings had to die. When we were introduced to them in Episode II it crossed my mind that when all of the Jedi were wiped out, they would be among them. I didn't think they'd address this directly, though. He killed them. Even the women and children. And archivists.


• Speaking of archivists, this isn't really relevant because she didn't appear in EpIII, but do you think Jocasta Nu was a Jedi? Do you have to go through all that training to be a Jedi Archivist, the way you have to get a law degree to be a law librarian? Or was she just temple staff? Or was she, to mix fandoms, a sort of Squib from a Jedi family, who they took pity on and gave a job to? We never see her doing anything Jedi-ly. It kind of would have kicked ass to see her draw a lightsaber in the stacks and try to defend herself against Anakin.


• I laughed out loud several times at the dialogue and once or twice or eleven times made gagging noises. Georgie, you suck. Your ideas are great, but you need help in carrying them out.


• General Grievous was not as bad as I expected. He could do a lot of cool stuff. I liked it when he effortlessly switched to crawling on all fours like some kind of bug. He wasn't a major plot point and he didn't have too much dialogue - he was just there to make some fight scenes interesting and I think he did.


• I still don't understand the point of Qui-Gon.


• TV series??? Has anyone else heard about this? They're going to make a TV series that bridges the gap between EpIII and EpIV. I do not approve. I prefer for my imagination to do this.

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* Soft, smagggggggggllllllllth flesh...
** Pun completely unintended but not removed!

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