Jaritan
"Lucas wrote the PT with these two things in mind- 1. how does a good person turn bad and 2. how does a democracy become a dictatorship. With that in mind, the two most important characters in the PT are Anakin and Palpatine, with every other character or event playing off them in some way. What Lucas seems to find more important is not the clone wars itself (the battles etc.) but how Palpatine sets them up. "
AZ..And all of these things could have been put into the film along with the Clone Wars. This could also have been shown as a turning point in Anakins character, not to mention add more depth in a few other Jedi characters. The truth is Anakin is the most important character, not Palpatine, but if that was what Lucas was aiming for he should have given us more scenes involving Anakin and Palpatine together, not just one in Episode 2.
"Which basically boils down to making a country fealful enough so that they'll give up their civil liberties, their rights, anything to the leader who says that he'll keep them safe. The idea of creating a war to stay in office literally happens in the film, but its a process thats happened time and again throughout history, and i'm sure you dont need reminding of the most recent example."
AZ..Thats another problem with these films, to much political elements rather than telling the story and adding character development, those should have been top priority, its Star Wars! Lucas pretty much bored the audience with far to much of it.
"Lucas took two films to cover it."
AZ. Not really. Anakins fall pretty much was covered in Episode 3, I wouldn't even say it was in Episode 2, because that incident appeared to be more isolated
"How was this glossed over?"
AZ..Anakins seduction was far to fast, even my wife who isn't even a SW fan thought it was rather quick and a drastic jump in character.
The Jedi Purge itself could have been a movie as well. All we get is a monologue and a cameo from Jett Lucas
Lucas didn't do the Jedi any justice and they were wiped out far to easy, which makes them look weak.
Despite the podrace being only 10 minutes long (still to long) it wasn't needed and neither was the Droid factory ordeal. So much potential wasted, how sad.
This post has been edited by Azrael23: 17 December 2005 - 09:57 PM