Fisting_Furbies: You'll always be wondering why R2-D2 isn't jumping around burning stormtroopers./>
this, the droid booster rockets R2 sports during the prequels have gone out of warranty by the time the classic trilogy rolls around. Even if you didn't see this EU bit, a little creativity could have supplied you with a million reasons why R-2 doesn't use rockets in the classic trilogy. All you have to do is not stop at "this makes no sense".
Fisting_Furbies: You'll be confused just how Chewbacca went from piggie-backing Yoda, to serving Han./>
Fisting_Furbies: You'll wonder why there is no Qui-Gon in the ghost scene of ROTJ, since he was the first to discover the power./>
Fisting_Furbies: After finishing ROTS and starting the OT, you'll constantly be hoping that Jar-Jar was not an invention of the OT so you never have to see him again./>
okay, so Chewie's in ROTS to bring warm fuzzies to the fans...which inevitably makes them want to run to the stores to buy the new Chewie figure, Chewie Lego set, and Chewie brand beef jerky.
same difference. and I'm saying that as someone who LIKES ROTS at the end of the day.
Right...but Lucas has gotten far more shameless in his pandering to the marketing and the merchandising of his movies.
Yoda is on Kashyyk (sp) to get him off Coruscant so that Anakin/Vader can ransack the temple without the ugly story complication of him having to smack down the most powerful Jedi in the Order. (obi-wan's chasing grievous for similar reasons--he can't be in the temple or on coruscant when anakin goes crazy.)
Why does Yoda HAVE to go to Kashyyk? he doesn't. it's a story device.
so sending him to the wookiee planet, THEN having him coincidentally hang with the most famous wookiee ever, is a little shameless to me. and whether it's direct shameless (check out chewie! buy this toy!) or indirect shameless (check out chewie! feel warm fuzzies! buy this toy!), it's still shameless.
lucas has been making every effort he can to tie this trilogy in with the OT, and sure, they're the same story. but it's also marketing that he has NEEDED as the films have been revealed as essentially weak to awful movies and he's had to play upon the public's sentimental attachment to the first three, awesome movies to get butts in the seats.
again, I say all this as someone who LIKES ROTS.
and I could just as easily say that I just don't see how a thinking human being can sit through the unmitigated pile of stinking dog s*** that is TPM, or the limp and lifeless snoozefest that is AOTC, and actually LIKE those movies, which I hate.
i DON'T say that--never have, because lots of my friends like the prequels, and they're all smart, nice, sensible folks (except dave, although he hates the prequels too). which is why I personally avoid unnecessary generalizations or attacks on the reasonable opinions of others.
Who's the stars of the Cingular ads? Who's the stars of the Frito ads? It aint Anakin, it aint Aayla Secura, it aint Darth Maul or even Jar Jar....it's Chewy, Vader & Stormtroopers......icons that people appreciate. Dooku is obviously a more important character than Chewbacca in the prequels, but obviously no one outside of the core fan-base gives a crap about Lee's character...Cingular knows it, and Lucas knows it. Why do you think there weren't any fast food tie-ins for AotC?
TPM had the fact that it was the "new" Star Wars giving it the hype engine prompting it's marketability to Taco Bell and Pepsi. RotS had not only "the last" Star Wars...but being directly tied to the actual franchise that the general public cares about and recognizes was license for exploitation.
Lucas didn't put Chewbacca in there for "us" he put Chewbacca in there for Cingular and Burger King, and for Joe-Average Gen-X'r who wont remember who Count Dooku is 10 minutes after he walks out of the theater, but remembers who Chewbacca is...and would think it's cool to download that new ring-tone.
I like RotS too, but don't deny that marketing department didn't get to be script consultants on these films.
Bosh
"Board Trolls! You know they're still shipping them over here. They put'm in cars, they put'm in yer TV, they put'm in stereos and those little radios you stick in your ears, they even put'm in watches, they even have teeny message board trolls for our watches!!!"
Obi-Wan and Yoda had plenty of time to talk through the Force while they were learning from Qui-Gon. Certainly Yoda would have mentioned Chewbacca's help at some point.
The only reason you missed this is because it's supposed to happen in your mind.
You can't blame Lucas for that, you are the one dropping the ball here.
you honestly think that in the twenty-odd years that Yoda and Obi-Wan had to chat about this, that, and the other, that Yoda would have said, "Way the by. A cool Wookiee I did meet. Chewbacca, his name is. Fly with him on a smuggler ship, you should, if an opportunity you should have."
besides, we have no evidence to suggest that Yoda and Obi-Wan can or do chat at all during those twenty years. i'm sure the EU will change this right quick, however.
as apologist claptrap to cover up plot holes, that takes the cake, my man!
Right, I missed typing up some imaginary fan-boy script that never happened. How short-minded of me. Maybe you should post this on the Fan-fic boards...since that's what it is.
BTW, Sidious doesn't really die at the end of RotJ, he totally fakes it using the Dark Side of the Force so that everyone thinks he's dead, then Moff Jerjerrod gets him off the Death Star II in a troop transport. I mean why would Lucas kill such a cool character off? I mean Vader turned good, so you don't need to kill Sidious. It'll all tie in in Episodes VII, VIII & IX. You'll see.
