Jaenera Targaryen
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[Darth Vitiate] Your striving is insignificant. Let your death be the same.[Palpatine] I am the woke mob!
[Darth Vitiate] Your striving is insignificant. Let your death be the same.[Palpatine] I am the woke mob!
Pretty sure the saberstaff appeared long before the prequels, with Exar Kun's first visual appearance in the Tales of the Jedi comics.
Pretty sure the saberstaff appeared long before the prequels, with Exar Kun's first visual appearance in the Tales of the Jedi comics.
That’s another thing.That, and they made the choice to have a true martial artist wielding the saber staff! Made it an awesome scene for me!
Eh, I agree with a good portion of what Plinkett said, but I feel like he was kinda off base about the lightsaber combat.I'm the opposite. While Plinkett is a lot knitpickier than I am, most of his points are valid, and one of them is the fight choreography. It looks like something out of an anime. I much prefer the fights in the OT. Agree with you about the sequels, though.
I liked it from a Narrative perspective. It felt like Sidious threw the fight with Windu in order to give Anakin the opportunity to fully embrace the dark side. My take.Honestly speaking, it would have made more sense to me if they had given Windu the last fight against the emperor and had him die there, facing off against a true master of the dark side.
Instead of getting sucker amputated by Anakin and thrown out a window.
Nah, Sidious was genuinely shitting his pants as that purple sabre flew towards him. Half of it was for show, yes, but in those last seconds of Windu bringing down the killer blow, you see the abject panic in Sidious’s eyes and voice as he pleads for his life.I liked it from a Narrative perspective. It felt like Sidious threw the fight with Windu in order to give Anakin the opportunity to fully embrace the dark side. My take.
The problem is...Anakin has been played since he met Palpatine and the Jedi did not help in that matter. Hell he killed Tyrannus earlier and Sidious said he was too dangerous to be taken in. Now he comes across Windu getting ready to kill Sidious and tells him they need to take him in for trial....What does Windu say? He is too dangerous to take in.Nah, Sidious was genuinely shitting his pants as that purple sabre flew towards him. Half of it was for show, yes, but in those last seconds of Windu bringing down the killer blow, you see the abject panic in Sidious’s eyes and voice as he pleads for his life.
Mace Windu is just that overwhelming. Unfortunately, Anakin had to be a fucking donut, and the Empire wasn’t nipped in the bud then and there.
Go sit in the corner. You know what you've done.And maybe some podracing.
Go sit in the corner. You know what you've done.
When Lucas looked back on Episode 2 a few years after, he apparently said, "yeah, you can tell that the people animating the CGI clones were animators".That’s another thing.
The prequels get, rightly or wrongly, a ton of shit flung at them. I personally blame Mr. Plinkett for popularizing a lot of the complaints.
But if there is one thing the prequels have going for them, it’s the fight choreography. Most of the fights in the prequels feel authentic and like there’s actual “weight”, for lack of a better word, to them.
None of the sequel fights feel like actual fights. They feel fake, there’s little actual emotion in them, or they just don’t make sense.
Let’s compare a couple of fights here. Maul vs. Jin and Obi-wan and Rey vs. Kylo.
Maul had a menacing presence throughout his fight. He’s completely silent as he fights the two Jedi and solidly holds his own throughout.
He actually manages to kill a main character and nearly kills another. The end of the fight is a bit of an asspull, but the rest of it is completely solid and gripping.
The fact that Duel of the Fates is one of Williams best works definitely helps as well.
Meanwhile, Kylo completely embarrassed himself. His aura of menace had already been shattered by his confrontation with Han and the actor himself can’t pull off menace. He doesn’t have the face for it.
Say what you will about Hayden Christensen, but when he didn’t have any cringe dialogue, he had some great emotional and facial control. Kylo? Eh, not so much.
Then he gets his ass kicked by a girl that has almost no experience with the force and no experience with a lightsaber.
Any hope of taking him seriously was ruined after that.
And the entire sequel trilogy is like that. It sets up villains that could be cool and threatening…only to completely undermine them later on. Sometimes in the same movie.
Snoke was killed with basically no fanfare. I already went in on Kylo. Blonde haired man whose name escapes me right now had a good speech, only to be repeatedly humiliated. Usually by Kylo. Silvery storm trooper lady gets thrown in the garbage shoot. And I don’t even understand what the hell is going on with Sidious. His entire appearance could honestly have a laugh track played over it.
The originals and sequels did not undermine their villains like this. They had their comic relief characters, but when the villains were on the screen, shit got serious.
Ironically, in the novelization Windu realized he couldn't overwhelm Sidious. He could only hold out thanks to Vaapad, and even then, it was a stalemate. Windu only managed to gain an advantage after the window was broken, as Sidious was forced to split his concentration between his bladework and avoiding getting sucked out the window.Nah, Sidious was genuinely shitting his pants as that purple sabre flew towards him. Half of it was for show, yes, but in those last seconds of Windu bringing down the killer blow, you see the abject panic in Sidious’s eyes and voice as he pleads for his life.
Mace Windu is just that overwhelming. Unfortunately, Anakin had to be a fucking donut, and the Empire wasn’t nipped in the bud then and there.
Pretty sure the saberstaff appeared long before the prequels, with Exar Kun's first visual appearance in the Tales of the Jedi comics.