Star Wars Overview-My Problems

Here I'm just going to tell you what my main problems in the entirety of Star Wars, please note that they are not all my problem but I am not going to write a list that's as long as the screen play for all three of the Prequels. When I start writing the plot synopsis  for my versions then you will start to understand the rest of my concerns, enjoy!

1. My first problem with the films is that Anakin should not have been 10 when the story started. Being 17+ would have set up a parallel with Luke, make the pod race and subsequent space battle more plausible and make the make the romance less weird and creepy with Portman's character. 

I am also not one of the people who blame good actors for bad roles, and I don't count  Hayden Christensen as a bad actor, but he was given nothing by George Lucas to work with. All his dialogue was stale and sounded like a 3 year old could have written it. This is a running theme throughout the prequels, as Harrison Ford once said to Lucas “You can write this shit George, but you can’t say it.” 

2. Next on my list of concerns are Midichlorines. Making the force a medical condition, nay a parasite even, took the wind out of every sail. Remember when it was an energy force that surrounded us and bound the Galaxy together? Was anyone unsatisfied with that explanation? Because I wasn't,  the Force should not be something you can cure with a dose of Penicillin.

3. Wasn't one of the main concerns of the original trilogy the stupid death of Boba Fett and the beginning of Jedi, possibly the coolest character after Harrison Ford's Han Solo. That character just oozed bad ass and mystery, they could have made a whole film with Boba saying a word and I would have seen it several times, provided there's no Ewoks or Gungans. Actually a film in which Boba Fett and a team of bounty hunters hunt Ewoks and Gungans on some random planet sounds like it is something that I would like to see, as long as it's hard R with lots of blood and Gungan guts and all come together into a scene where Boba Fett beats the shit out of Jar Jar for 10 minutes, anyone?

But back on topic, they make the same mistake again and kill Darth Maul in Menace. Take the 1 new character that is actually several shades of awesome and you punk him out at the end of episode one. Count Dooku was pointless, no offence to Christopher Lee but he really was. All he did was chop off Anakins arm and his death came too quickly. Let's face it, Darth Maul should have been the main villain in these movies. That would've been so much better. Having him killing Qui-Gon, wounding Obi-wan, and then getting away, then plotting a huge campaign against the Jedi  for episode 2 and then having Anakin becoming Vader by slaying him in Episode 3 would have been the cherry on the top. 

4. Stupid creatures and characters, we got those. I don't even have to talk about the Gungans and Jar Jar because you've heard it a million times from a million sources. But what I can talk about are the Ewoks, I didn't like the end of Jedi, not even the original before the changes, because of the stupidity. I would have love the final battle to have been between an army of Wookies and rebels and the Empires spec op's. How cool would that of been? But instead we got a bunch of care bears tea bagging the Empire, it really took me out of the film.

5. Ewan McGregor, Liam Neeson, Ian McDiarmid were perfect for their roles. PERFECT. But their co-stars weren't as much. Samuel L. Jackson may play a lot of bad ass characters (Nick Fury, Jules etc) but his acting was dull and plain. His character was bad ass, but the acting wasn't. Black Swan has proven to us that Natalie Portman is a very talented actress. But where did that talent go in Star Wars? Apart from that I really had no problems with the original trilogy casting.


6. Darth Vader building one of the droids that he was looking for in a New Hope. Plus he used to own the one who has the plans he’s looking for. It is just another thing that Lucas did to try and connect all the strings between the two trilogies, and it just didn't work. R2-D2 and C3PO should have been kept in the originals where they belong.

7. Yoda should never have been shown in the prequels, only alluded to. This would have made his appearance in Empire all the better.

8. Han shoots first.

9. Love triangle! Anakin was too young for Padme, so she fell in love with Obi Wan. But he saw her only as a princess to be served, not an equal. But Anakin loved her more than life itself, but this is how it should have went, and never understood why she couldn't love him in return. Especially seeing how Obi Wan rejected her. Finally he couldn't stand it and as he became seduced by the dark side he raped Padme, spawning Luke & Leia. Obi Wan sought revenge and that led to their epic battle on the molten planet. (His failure with Anakin, his responsibility) Knowing how the Emperor seduced Anakin, Obi Wan forced Padme to send her son and daughter into hiding but in a way that makes it seem like the kids where his. Heart broken and alone she killed herself like that girl in Last Of The Mohicans.

Hopefully you got a lot out of this and I will Blog again soon,
~Luk3