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Star Wars Episode 3 1/2? Inconsistencies? Anakin ain't Mannikin anymore! (SPOLIER)
5/22/05 | Conservatrix

Posted on 05/22/2005 7:45:44 AM PDT by Conservatrix

For those who have seen Epsiode 3, will there be a 3 1/2? Click though to comments... I don't want to post my spoilers where those who have not seen it will see....


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To: Jeff Head

Sorry still messes up, I don't know why.... weird....


21 posted on 05/22/2005 9:29:19 AM PDT by Conservatrix ("He who stands for nothing will fall for anything.")
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To: Cowboy Bob
I read the other day that Darth Vader was 6'7" in the original Star Wars. How tall is the actor who plays Anakin (since he ends up being Darth)? THIS is a spoiler, but... He gets burned severely near a lava flow at the end of a long fight with Obi Wan... he is basically a torso and head... During his long operation to keep him alive, they give him fake legs (which are a foot taller than normal legs-- something DEFINTELY inconsistent visually anyway) and the Vader mask... they must have given him fake shoulders also and a fake longer torso... it is obvious it is a different person... THAT was the least believeable part of the whole story...
22 posted on 05/22/2005 9:32:47 AM PDT by Conservatrix ("He who stands for nothing will fall for anything.")
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To: Cowboy Bob

Sorry, everything is coming up in italics... hope you can read what I wrote.... why is it doing that!


23 posted on 05/22/2005 9:35:19 AM PDT by Conservatrix ("He who stands for nothing will fall for anything.")
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To: Conservatrix

All I can say is I thought it was soooo unfair that Luke's twin sister gets to grow up a princess and he has to grow up a dirt farmer!


24 posted on 05/22/2005 9:37:05 AM PDT by ConservativeLawyer
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To: ConservativeLawyer
All I can say is I thought it was soooo unfair that Luke's twin sister gets to grow up a princess and he has to grow up a dirt farmer!

Why was Leah a princess? Not becauseof Padme, she had ceased to be a princess long before she died. Can anybody help who knows the backstory?

25 posted on 05/22/2005 9:51:31 AM PDT by Conservatrix ("He who stands for nothing will fall for anything.")
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To: Conservatrix
Why was Leah a princess?

I thought there was some mention of her adoptive family being some type of royalty. But I'm not sure--I was passing popcorn to the kids at the time.

Why didn't Vader go to his wife's funeral? I didn't see him there. Can't be because he was afraid of anyone there.

And how does Vader eventually learn that Luke is his son? No one tells him about the babies. Does he just sense that through the Force?

26 posted on 05/22/2005 10:10:25 AM PDT by ConservativeLawyer
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To: ConservativeLawyer

yes I agree. These are indeed INCONSISTENCIES...

perhaps warranting an Epsiode 3 1/2?


27 posted on 05/22/2005 10:13:51 AM PDT by Conservatrix ("He who stands for nothing will fall for anything.")
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To: ConservativeLawyer

I just remember in one of the original movies when luke is facing down vader and vader reveals he knows about leah when he says to luke,..."ah yes...sistaaah..."


28 posted on 05/22/2005 10:16:59 AM PDT by paltz (New York is a blue city talking for an overwhelmingy Red State)
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To: Conservatrix
perhaps warranting an Epsiode 3 1/2?

I'm not sure its enough to build an entire episode around.

I'd rather see and Episode VII where Luke turns to the dark side--following in his father's footsteps. But thats just me.

29 posted on 05/22/2005 10:19:15 AM PDT by ConservativeLawyer
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To: Conservatrix
I also thought Anakin -> Vader was totally believeable. Remember that Anakin had an extremely bad childhood as a slave and this pretty much led to him being totally nutso. Being strong and also unbalanced is not out of the question. I liked this part of the story a lot.

For Padme not to see this was pretty ridiculous. He was doomed from the beginning.

I also think Lucas got cold feet, he must have thought about putting in the storyiline that Anakin killed Padme, but then chickened out for the "will to live" crap.

All in all, a good movie, well worth $5.50 if you don't try to analyze the crappy script, the story is good, script, pretty awful. Lucas almost screwed up the climax of the movie with odd word choice.

And what is the deal with 'younglings"? WTF? Would it have killed them to use a regular word like "children"?

wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.

30 posted on 05/22/2005 11:26:46 AM PDT by Benrand
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To: Conservatrix
I saw A New Hope, IV, after I saw III.

There was one inconsistency that I saw. Luke and Ben are at Ben's home and Ben is starting to open a chest and he was speaking to Luke that Anakin wanted to give Luke his lightsaber.

Where in III did Anakin say that? No where. After Ben defeated Anakin, Ben did pick up Anakin's lightsaber, but Anakin didn't say anything about giving his lightsaber to his son, Luke. Heck, he didn't even know that he had a son, or twins at that moment of time!

Am I right about this or am I tripping? LoL

31 posted on 05/22/2005 2:14:27 PM PDT by GulfWar1Vet (Freedom is worth FIGHTIN FOR, for if we don't fight for it, we WILL lose it!)
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To: MikeinIraq
>I think I want to see the movie....

That's strange. Everything
I've heard makes me want to spend
this week's movie bucks

on anything else.
I'll probably watch Paris
die in House of Wax.

32 posted on 05/22/2005 2:21:53 PM PDT by theFIRMbss
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To: Cowboy Bob

I believe Hayden's real height is six foot one inches.


33 posted on 05/22/2005 2:26:16 PM PDT by marajade (Yes, I'm a SW freak!)
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To: ConservativeLawyer
"All I can say is I thought it was soooo unfair that Luke's twin sister gets to grow up a princess and he has to grow up a dirt farmer!"

Ever since Return of the Jedi, I've wanted to see Leia come into her own in the force. There is the implication that she does, and I know that Lucas had originally planned sequels to follow Episodes 4-6. Just always seems to leave the story incomplete/unresolved. I mean, why open that door at all if nothing is to be done with it?

34 posted on 05/22/2005 2:51:33 PM PDT by sweetliberty (Never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference.)
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To: ConservativeLawyer
"No one tells him about the babies. Does he just sense that through the Force?"

That would make sense, although he didn't know about Leia. Remember when he said to Luke in Return of the Jedi about "sister." And then he said "your feelings have betrayed her. Your mother was wise to hide her from me." Makes me wonder if he didn't know there was one baby, and perhaps had some knowledge of where he was all along, but he never knew of the second one until the showdown on the moon of Endor.

35 posted on 05/22/2005 2:57:59 PM PDT by sweetliberty (Never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference.)
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To: GulfWar1Vet
"Anakin didn't say anything about giving his lightsaber to his son, Luke."

Perhaps not in the script, but it makes sense that he might have said it in passing to Obi Wan at some point in time, before he ever had a son and when his intention was for good.

36 posted on 05/22/2005 3:01:27 PM PDT by sweetliberty (Never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference.)
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To: sweetliberty

I seem to recall in one of the first scenes of Episode IV Leia says something to the effect that her father is a powerful man and will be outraged that Darth Vader has kidnapper her. I suppose she means her step-father, since she is talking to her real father. Does anyone else recall that?


37 posted on 05/22/2005 3:09:10 PM PDT by ConservativeLawyer
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To: Conservatrix
Considering Palpatine maniplitive personality, that could have been a clone of Padme at the funeral, the real whereabouts of Padme not being know, and Palpatine cloned her and Palpatine told Vader she died just to screw with Vader's head.

That would account for the Leia remembering her mother plothole, or Leia could have been remembering her adopted mother.

38 posted on 05/22/2005 3:13:24 PM PDT by Paul C. Jesup
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To: ConservativeLawyer

Yep, I do. She probably figures that her "father" is her real father. She wasn't told that she was adopted.


39 posted on 05/22/2005 3:16:09 PM PDT by GulfWar1Vet (Freedom is worth FIGHTIN FOR, for if we don't fight for it, we WILL lose it!)
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To: Cowboy Bob

To stay true to the story, Darth doesn't have to be the same actor as Anakin since he's been essentially completely rebuilt - plus since he lost both legs and they're replaced with bionic ones they could be different heights from time to time. (like the cop in Young Frankenstein with the interchangeable arms...)


40 posted on 05/22/2005 3:17:43 PM PDT by Spyder (I'm in the WPPFF)
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