The last spoken line in the Star Wars saga ...
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The lack of variety in fighting styles bothered me. The fact that everyone could jump and move like ninjas got very old. Darth Vader was supposed to be the baddest of the bad and he had a style which was very slow and deliberate. Why does that have to be a liability? He was so powerful he didn't need to jump around like Daffy Duck. Should have been the same way with Yoda. In fact, I would have prefered Yoda to have been much more subtle and, frankly, scary in his attacks. Someone who can raise an X-Wing out of the mud with a gesture shouldn't need to eviscerate someone with a lightsaber.
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I don't remember C3PO being particularly festive. If memory serves, he was always sort of nervous, uptight and tetchy. I wouldn't categorize him as gay or happy.
IIRC Anthony Daniels the actor who plays C-3P0 is gay... not that there is anything wrong with that.
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Count Dooku is older in the prequels than Obi-Wan is in A New Hope. And he manages to be all spry and impressive with his lightsaber.
And Greivous is a man-machine just like Vader. Again with the spry.
Oh well. I'd rather have inexplicably awesome lightsaber fights than explicable ho-hum ones. 
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Maybe we should just put it down to the fact that one film is now nearly 30 years old, was made on a smaller budget and didn't have such high expectations to live up to...Times and stunt coordinators have changed.
The Yoda flipping though does get a bit tiresome though - in fact I was playing one of the new Ep III games last night and the damned thing was bouncing around all over the place. Very annoying (although quite effective).
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Yep, that pretty much sums up my views of Eps 1,2 & 3.
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Originally posted by Piotrowski:
Count Dooku is older in the prequels than Obi-Wan is in A New Hope. And he manages to be all spry and impressive with his lightsaber.
And Greivous is a man-machine just like Vader. Again with the spry.
Oh well. I'd rather have inexplicably awesome lightsaber fights than explicable ho-hum ones.
1) dooku - not 20 years out of practice
2) greivous/vader -
- Greivous - essentially a droid with a biological brain grafted in, and enough of the original creature's organs to sustain the brain.
and i know if i were desingning an uber-super-dee-duper battle droid, i wouldn;t limit my design specs to resembling/behaving just like your stock humanoid....
- Vader - While also " More machine now than man", his machinary is designed to mimic/replace the "stock parts" if you will. and most folks I've known with prosthetic limbs, ( while there are always exceptions to the rule) don't move quite as well as those with natural limbs. and don't forget the full pressure suit and moobile life support gear attached to it. adds to the bulk, decreases manuverability.
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Besides, if you could kill someone just by squeezing your fist and glaring at them, how agile would you need to be? I don't suppose Vader took part in any physical fights between those fights with Obi Wan.
Hmmm, we seemed to have strayed slightly off-topic here!
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You know, I'm getting pretty sick of people having episodes I-III just because they're not IV-VI. Sure, the plots are cartoonish and scattered, the dialogue is stilted, and the acting is weak, but the same all holds true for the original trilogy!
The prequel trilogy's biggest crime is that most of us are viewing it as adults rather than children.
Attacking Lucas's decision to give Threepio the last word is ludicrous, given that the character a) have the first line in Episode IV, and b) has served as sort of a detached observer for the entire trilogy.
Personally, I would have been disappointed if Lucas had given the last spoken line to anyone else!
Grow up, guys! Or, rather, grow down. The prequel trilogy can be just as much fun as the original one, but only if you let it!
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Quote:And (according to the novel, at least), Dooku was the best duellist in the Order before he quit (he trained Qui-Gon, who was the second-best swordsman).
Originally posted by optimus1998:
1) dooku - not 20 years out of practice
Which, I think, puts Dooku on the same level of skill as Leia in the EU.
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Personally I've enjoyed all the prequels - minor inconsistencies aside. There are other threads on this site which have been far more damning.
No, the prequels were never going to match up to the originals but perhaps we do tend to look at them through rose-tinted glasses! And were the Ewoks as hated so much when ROTJ came out as they are now? I'm not so sure...
But then (ahem) I loved Jar Jar...
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