Revenge of the Sith trailer speculation
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mamishka, spazzkat, solarbird, kingchiron, darthhellokitty, and I all went to see The Incredibles today. And that was major fun. This post, however, is about the Revenge of the Sith trailer we got at the beginning of the movie! And I'm torn...
Half of me is rather worried that the majority of what we actually see in this trailer is footage from A New Hope: specifically, Ben telling Luke the original version of the tale of Darth Vader's origins. "A young pupil of mine, Darth Vader..." Etc., etc. In fact, Alec Guiness' lines are the majority of spoken dialogue in the trailer. This all made me rather think, "Gosh... they're advertising this new movie by showing us footage from the very first one? That can't be good..."
On the other hand, I did think that the contingent of armed and pissed-off Wookiees was pretty cool. I must of course speculate as to whether one of those Wookiees will be Chewbacca; Dara says, "Given that the Star Wars universe has about 50 people in it, yeah, I'd say so."
One thing also makes me think. A while back there was a theory going around the parts of the Net I frequent about the possibility of a romantic involvement between Amidala and Ben being the thing that tips Anakin over to the Dark Side. The more I think about it, the more I think that this is the scenario we're going to see in the new movie. And the thing that makes me think this is that we see Amidala in a passionate embrace a couple of times in this trailer. We see her face--but I didn't catch the face of who she was hugging.
And I also get to thinking, exactly when does Anakin tip over to the Dark Side? It must obviously be before the babies are born and before he even has a chance to know that Amidala is pregnant, because we know from the original trilogy that Vader was less than completely briefed on his own offspring. We also know from the new movies two big things about Anakin: 1) he's had this great love for Amidala all his life thus far, and 2) that boy ain't exactly stable.
I am envisioning a scenario where Amidala, possibly spooked out by increasing instability in Anakin, starts getting more partial to Ben. And hell, he may even also get partial to her. I can totally see them not ever acting on it--since Ben and Amidala would have the same issue that Anakin and Amidala would, i.e., the Jedi are supposed to be celibate, so neither one of 'em would be allowed to have some royal nookie. (An issue that does of course bug me, as it leaves wide open the question of how the hell Jedi manage to make little Jedi if they ain't supposed to breed, but that's another issue entirely.)
And they wouldn't even need to act on it in the scenario I'm seeing. All it would take would be the possibility that Amidala might turn to Ben instead of Anakin--because then, enter Palpatine, who can point at Ben and Amidala and go "aaaaah! Fooling around behind your back, mmm, bad, yes!" And Anakin (who, as previously mentioned, ain't exactly stable) goes apeshit out of jealousy, egged on by Palpatine, who's quite happy to use that to turn him into his brand new right-hand Lord of the Sith.
We'll have to see if this is in fact the movie we get. It's a simple, obvious answer to the question of what tips Anakin over--and let's face it, Mr. Lucas ain't exactly famous for hard-to-follow, complicated plots. ;) This isn't exactly a bad thing--classic plot archetypes like this can be just dandy when handled with skill. I just hope we get that skill.
Guess we'll find out in May 2005.
mamishka, spazzkat, solarbird, kingchiron, darthhellokitty, and I all went to see The Incredibles today. And that was major fun. This post, however, is about the Revenge of the Sith trailer we got at the beginning of the movie! And I'm torn...Half of me is rather worried that the majority of what we actually see in this trailer is footage from A New Hope: specifically, Ben telling Luke the original version of the tale of Darth Vader's origins. "A young pupil of mine, Darth Vader..." Etc., etc. In fact, Alec Guiness' lines are the majority of spoken dialogue in the trailer. This all made me rather think, "Gosh... they're advertising this new movie by showing us footage from the very first one? That can't be good..."
On the other hand, I did think that the contingent of armed and pissed-off Wookiees was pretty cool. I must of course speculate as to whether one of those Wookiees will be Chewbacca; Dara says, "Given that the Star Wars universe has about 50 people in it, yeah, I'd say so."
One thing also makes me think. A while back there was a theory going around the parts of the Net I frequent about the possibility of a romantic involvement between Amidala and Ben being the thing that tips Anakin over to the Dark Side. The more I think about it, the more I think that this is the scenario we're going to see in the new movie. And the thing that makes me think this is that we see Amidala in a passionate embrace a couple of times in this trailer. We see her face--but I didn't catch the face of who she was hugging.
And I also get to thinking, exactly when does Anakin tip over to the Dark Side? It must obviously be before the babies are born and before he even has a chance to know that Amidala is pregnant, because we know from the original trilogy that Vader was less than completely briefed on his own offspring. We also know from the new movies two big things about Anakin: 1) he's had this great love for Amidala all his life thus far, and 2) that boy ain't exactly stable.
I am envisioning a scenario where Amidala, possibly spooked out by increasing instability in Anakin, starts getting more partial to Ben. And hell, he may even also get partial to her. I can totally see them not ever acting on it--since Ben and Amidala would have the same issue that Anakin and Amidala would, i.e., the Jedi are supposed to be celibate, so neither one of 'em would be allowed to have some royal nookie. (An issue that does of course bug me, as it leaves wide open the question of how the hell Jedi manage to make little Jedi if they ain't supposed to breed, but that's another issue entirely.)
And they wouldn't even need to act on it in the scenario I'm seeing. All it would take would be the possibility that Amidala might turn to Ben instead of Anakin--because then, enter Palpatine, who can point at Ben and Amidala and go "aaaaah! Fooling around behind your back, mmm, bad, yes!" And Anakin (who, as previously mentioned, ain't exactly stable) goes apeshit out of jealousy, egged on by Palpatine, who's quite happy to use that to turn him into his brand new right-hand Lord of the Sith.
We'll have to see if this is in fact the movie we get. It's a simple, obvious answer to the question of what tips Anakin over--and let's face it, Mr. Lucas ain't exactly famous for hard-to-follow, complicated plots. ;) This isn't exactly a bad thing--classic plot archetypes like this can be just dandy when handled with skill. I just hope we get that skill.
Guess we'll find out in May 2005.