revenge of the sith

[fox]

oh. my. GOD.

well, that was superlative.  i'm not quite prepared to say all is forgiven, but certainly this film is Worthy.  i am swoony and light-headed, and it's not because of the slasher-shout-out at the end there.

assorted thoughts:  yea, verily, and mightily i did go "eeeeeeeee!" at multiple other points during the movie as well.  ewan mcgregor is a good-looking man, inn'e?  i was glad they allowed him to smile for once.  sadly, i am not able to think of senator organa by that name; every time i saw him, i thought, "victor sifuentes is fomenting rebellion" or "victor sifuentes is doomed".  oh, the music, the music, LOVE.  oh!  the babies, in the council chamber, i'm glad we didn't see him killing the wee ones, and i'll tell you what, i wish they'd gone ahead and used the word "children" instead of "younglings" at least once; i feel like "younglings" should be a pet name.  the shot of the mask coming down on vader's face was really quite brilliant.

two quibbles:

1.  but, see, whatever you think about the extended (or expanded? i can never remember) universe (what i think:  not canon), or the novelisations (whose brother was owen lars, again?), it is existing film canon, both Correct and Special Edition, that leia has memories of her real mother, who died when she was very small, and that luke never knew her.  an explanation, please, and a plausible one?

2.  "only a sith deals in absolutes."  oh my god, y'all, i'm afraid i laughed out loud.  i wasn't able to control myself.  i laughed for about fifteen seconds.  i mean, seriously.  the irony was coming fast over the plate in this movie, but mainly in a foreshadow-y kind of way, and less in a but-he-just-said-that-with-a-straight-face kind of way.  only a sith deals in absolutes.  i need an icon, stat.

Comments

[axiom_of_stripe]

( a truly spoiler-free entry does not give any reactions outside the cut (though there may be, and are, spoilers behind it). )

*blows you a kiss without reading the entry*

[juice817.livejournal.com]

see, and i kept thinking "gah! it's jimmy smits!" :D his wife is the mother leia remembers, who died in her childhood. isn't she?

[titti]

My only explanation is that Leia didn't know that mrs. Senator Organa was not her mother. I know I'm stretching since she was princess Leia, but I've resigned myself to mean that while she kept the title, she considere Organa her mother and she was not talking about Padme.

I still want to know why Obi Wan didn't recognize C3P0 and R2D2.

[shezan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, and I was all "Congressman Santos will start the Rebellion! He must have lost the Democratic primaries after all!"

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I finally wrote you a birthday story, (http://trickster.org/res/four.html) such as it is. Sorry it's short, late, and smutless.