Star Wars is complicated for me.
On the one hand, there’s the new Clone Wars cartoon, which I could care less about (mostly because Genndy Tartovsky did this series in 2003 and it was goddamn fantastic).
On the other hand, there’s The Force Unleashed, which has me all but drooling.
So I am apathetic and very excited about the same franchise. Weird.
In that spirit, I’d like to mention the Star Wars prequels.
All you need to know about the problems of the prequels is contained in the climactic lightsaber battle scene between Obi-Wan Kenobi and the mint-condition Darth Vader.
Anakin (Vader) in the beginning of the scene: “You’re either with me, or you’re my enemy.”
Then, MINUTES LATER…
Anakin (Vader) at the end of the scene: “From my point of view, the Jedi are evil.”
Don’t have a character draw a moralist line in the sand and then have them be fully cognizant of the subjectivity of their own point of view. It takes a bit away.
Back to that same line, “you’re either with me or you’re my enemy.” Obi-Wan responds, “Only Sith deal in absolutes.”
Which is itself an absolute. But even so, let’s look closer.
Sith deal in absolutes, but not the Jedi. The Jedi, who at every opportunity mention that there is a Light side and a Dark side of the Force (and ONLY a Light and a Dark side; no hazy side, dim side, or twilight side), do not deal in absolutes?
And that is all you need to know about the Star Wars prequels. Next I will tackle some Titanic plot holes, out-of-date waste-of-water that I am.
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