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[cabbitzilla]

To my eyes, the storyline was choppy and erratic; too many events shoved into a single film. The dialogue was stiff, a lot of the acting was wooden, and it left me with some mechanics and plot oriented questions:

• Why did Palpatine visibly age when using Force Lightning the first time, and then use it without noticeable effect later? Where's the consistency?
• Yoda admitting defeat after one battle? What the hell happened to Do or do not, there is no try.?
• How do you steer a starship when the engines -and- the atmospheric flaps are torn away? They were all mounted on the stern of that cruiser...
• What kind of lizard was that? Why aren't they more popular? The thing can leap down two stories without missing a step, and can outrun Grevious' air speeder. I want a lizard like that.
• When you're going to arrest someone who's just been revealed to be a Sith Lord, why the hell would ANYONE take three idiots with them that are so inept that they're all three mowed down in less than 10 seconds?

*shrugs* Oh well.


Other than that, there's very little going on, but here're the high points:

• I'm hopping about on the crutches. With toes extended, the leg will take enough of my weight to balance. A positive sign, I'm hoping.
• I won't be making the Eberron campaign I normally play in this weekend. I'm simply not coordinated enough, and I keep needing naps. Maybe next week.
• After a LOT of help from Kelly, my Gateway Solo (P-II/266, Fedora Core 1) has been converted to a wireless access point (AP). The apartment is now wireless enabled. I've got to find a way to mount the antenna a bit more stably, but that's compartively minor. When Megan's machine gets rebuilt, it's getting a cheap 802.11b card and the wire run through the hallway goes away.
• Most of my local friends are going to be away this weekend (or are already gone). Hilfie and Ray are off at GenCon, nightambre and several of her close friends are all at Otakon, Fuzzy's in Missouri meeting a girl he met through a cellphone chat, Grot's at a WarHammer tournament somewhere, and Crys and Kelly will be gearing up for their trip starting next Wednesday. Gonna be a long weekend, methinks.
• If anyone has a 5volt 2.5amp power adapter, could I borrow it? I have a purpose-built wireless AP that's also a 10/100 switch. I'd love to use it, but can't find anything to power it.

I think that's all of it. 'm gonna go find something to do now.

*hugs*

Comments

[freakishspleen.livejournal.com]

I wanna know why General Grevious kept his weak spot so unprotected. What an idiot.

[rowandoll.livejournal.com]

Grievous was so much more terrifying in 'clone wars' He was unstoppable. In this he was just something for obi wan to kill to prove he wasn't a pussy.

I liked the noise the lizard made. I wish he had shown up in lego star wars.

[freakishspleen.livejournal.com]

My favorite part of the movie was when General Grievous spun his lightsabers right through the floor while advancing on Obi Wan, leaving those molten fissures. That was some menacing shit.

[wibbble]

> Why did Palpatine visibly age when using Force Lightning the first time, and then use it without
> noticeable effect later? Where's the consistency?

I think that was supposed to be the first time he'd really used those kind of Dark Force powers. The idea is that using Dark Force powers visibly corrupts you, and until that point he'd had to maintain an appearance of innocence.

OTOH, Dooku used Force Lightning in Attack of the Clones without turning into a bag of ugly, so who knows.

> Yoda admitting defeat after one battle? What the hell happened to Do or do not, there is no try.?

I think that's consistent, actually: he chose to 'do not', having realised that trying more would be futile.

> How do you steer a starship when the engines -and- the atmospheric flaps are torn away?

Force Powers and/or the magic of bad scripting. ;o)

[wibbble]

Oops, didn't mean to hit return there...

> When you're going to arrest someone who's just been revealed to be a Sith Lord, why the hell would
> ANYONE take three idiots with them that are so inept that they're all three mowed down in less than
> 10 seconds?

They were probably the best he had available. Mace Windu is second only to Yoda when it comes to the bad-ass lightsabre skills, which is why he was able to take Palpatine by surprise. The others had probably never fought anything more cunning than droids before.

And also, here, have a random hug:

*hug*

[m-masque.livejournal.com]

Palpatine always did look like the human version of a Shar-pei; he was just using his dark force powers as a form of plastic surgery. And when he rained down force lightning on Mace Windu, the face lift went out the window, too.

After that, it was a political advantage to look hideous. "See what those Jedi did to me? See what they'll do to you?"

I'm just surpised he didn't accuse them of hiding weapons of mass destruction on Arrakis or something like that... You know how those Fremen are...