It *really* needed a rewrite by someone chatty, capable of sparkling banter.My vote for best prequel moment ruined by un-sparkling dialog:  ”I don’t mind flying but what you’re doing is suicide.”  

i’ll have to disagree on plot, but i won’t argue it; it’s been done to death and no one is going to change their mind now. but i have to say, it appears that there was almost zero effort to make it match up to ep. 4-6 in anything other than the broadest way.

Remember in “Phantom Menace,” when two Jedi Knights report back to tell him that Naboo is under full-scale attack and they were nearly killed by an evil Sith Lord? He responds that the Jedi Council will immediately investigate using “all their resources…”

…then just sends the same two guys back, with zero backup, to fight off a planetary invasion by themselves. Way to step up, Mace.

I’m watching all this with great curiosity.  Disney’s “Got Water” game with the character Swampy is phenomenal, and shows how when they get themselves together, they make something greater than great.

If they can stitch together the new episodes with the same panache and integrity, we may be in for a treat.  Given CGI these days, some no-name actor could play Luke and then have Mark Hamill’s youthful face pasted on top.  Done well, we’d be getting the full organic and healthy Star Wars dose.

And the whole thing will be much more socially networked.  No more feather-headed paperback sources for the backstories – we should be getting worlds and reams of information out of the studio.

Unless, of course, they simply give Leia a big arse and lapdancer outfit.

This is going to be a challenge.

Also i think Yoda is the only Jedi Master who actually justifies his title, the rest are largley either arrogent or clueless or both.

The dialog was uneven, and generally anemic throughout.  You could tell that it was written by someone who seems to feel that having to converse IRL is more uncomfortable than a delight. So that was unfortunate.

More importantly, the absence of Han Solo/Harrison Ford, however appropriate to the story, was *the* real loss for most (complaining) fans, and the actual source of most complaints, however they attempt to justify them. 

But regardless, I’ll fight to the death over Jake Lloyd’s performance, which was very good, very consistent, very professionally done.  Watch the documentary on the “making of” to see the other two options.  Jake was clearly the best choice available.

Perhaps I am a believer in Jake Lloyd’s performance because I’ve spent so much time with real children.  And most of the Episode 1 critics seem to be too young to have done so.  I think the absurd overacting that most child “actors” do is what seems unreal.  

Jake did a fantastic job. And it’s high time these mindless critics lay off.

That said, Disney owns it now and has shown a willingness to beat the horse into a black hole with the Marvel properties, so 20 years from now we could well be watching a dramatic film with no action that takes place on one of the planets. 

Maybe they will make him a purple space ship this time.

Something along those lines though. Maybe like Jean Grey, preserve his life essence in a paperweight that sits around on someone’s desk until some magic shit happens years later and brings him back to corporeal life.

Leading Jedi often left behind an interactive 3d image on a holocron, to train future jedi, and answer questions they alone would know.  The semi-living versions of themselves are limited in what they can answer, but much of their personality and desires are embodied within the Force-embued technology.

So.  That would work. 

SPOILER(?):  Although, I suspect that much of Luke’s future breakdown (a la Vader) would have to do with him **not** knowing how to run things very well after the Emperor’s purge of all things Jedi…  I predict it would end up Luke vs. Leia.  Leia was trained to rule; Luke, uh, wasn’t.  Archetypally, there are few other ways. 

Plus:  ”If you leave now, help them you could; but you would destroy all for which they have fought, and suffered.”  And, he left.  Before there was a prophecy that Skywalker would bring balance; now there’s a prophecy that he would undo everything.  After all, there’s a reason it’s called Star **Wars**.

“no, not so much. i’mma chill and commune with yoda. maybe keep an anthropological record of the surviving sandpeople. i dunno.”