Hello sexy Jedi!

May the force be with you. :)

Nice Jedi!! Smooth, baby. XP

*does some fancy spin moves* :)

Lol.

I agree with you! I love the original episodes best! I'm not looking forward to seeing whatever Disney does with Star Wars next :T

But you make a pretty awesome looking Jedi!

Episodes 4-6 were strong because George Lucas had to write around his restrictions to tell his story. Once he had all the effects to do what he wanted, he stopped trying.

After the massive let down that 1-3 were, I'm not holding my breath. I will see them, I have to, but it must earn my trust back.

I like that my lightsabers are two different colors. ;) I always liked that idea. ;)

This is cool :D

Isn't it? :)

*vrrrrm!* Stylish! Gotta love dual-wielding!

I remember when they introduced episode 1 I was so jazzed about the double bladed lightsaber, but now I think I prefer dual wielding best. ;)

I'd go dual wield myself. Seems more versatile, if a bit more dangerous. But oh well.

*high fives you*

I don't know, the dual-saber was pretty awesome and for someone like me it would be the best route but in the end I guess it all depends on the wielder(yeah I know, I got all fancy historian on you, don't judge me).

Happy Star Wars Day!

It was hard saving this one for May 4!

I didn't wait. I celebrated a day early by wearing one (yes, I have more than one) of my Star Wars shirts on Saturday the 3rd. Because I was a bum on Sunday and didn't even get dressed, stayed in my jammies all day.

Woo hoo! ;)

Hehe well she does make a lovely jedi

*bows gracefully*

You do make for a nice Jedi Guardian I think and you keep finding such good artists to do your pics.

Guardians being the healers? :)

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/13377256/

YAY!

Well, I didn't change my name for the purposes of the pic, but I don't really go in for the star wars name thing anyway. :) No one says I can't have a normal name from some planet somewhere. ;)

Writing and direction were a big problem, this being because Lucas chose to do both, and not well. He just wrote what he wanted and that's all. No one seemed to take issue with the logic flaws and other things that made no sense, like going down with the army to warn the Naboo about said army... IMHO, Anakin was too young. Jake Lloyd just wasn't a skilled actor, not enough. I would've cast Haley Joel Osment. Of course, that's just my feeling.

She's the third character of mine to carry a lightsaber. ;)

Okay? I keep wondering every time I rewatch episode 1, why they even brought Anakin back to Naboo at all? He was on Coruscant to begin his training. He was safe. So Qui Gon takes him to a war zone to retake the planet, why? He has no combat skills. He gets there and they have no plan, as they discuss it during landing. Lastly, Anakin is ordered to hide in a fighter (where the bad guys would never look, sarcasm), and he just pushes the right button to activate the ship, which auto pilots out of the hangar and doesn't get shot down (though it is not evading in any way), flies up to the battle (which could not have been preprogrammed since the pilots only JUST got to their ships five minutes ago) and is not shot down until he gets into the battle, where he flies through their shields into the hangar. The fighter overheats, but even though droids are ten feet away, Anakin is not pulled out during the five minutes the movie follows the other characters. When we cut back to him, he's still there. REALLY??? He takes off, shoots the ONE THING that blows up the ship (from the hangar bay no less) and the other pilots act like they all accomplished something.

Plus, where did the blockading armada go? Why is there only ONE ship at the end?


The world isn't bad, it's just badly mishandled IMHO. I liked episode 3, it offended me less than the other two, but my biggest problem with two was that the pacing was poor. Slow love scenes with fast dark suspense, alternating with no flow, just two modes. NO.

Overall I liked the setting, but I wish the circumstances fit the story rather than the other way around.

Rowan and Kate. ;)

Yeah, but I still don't see why you bring Anakin with you. You know it is dangerous, and while anakin may not be trained, he won't die on Coruscant. He has no tactical skills and you don't have time to train him. Why bring him when the story and common sense avises not to?

Possible, but it still does not explain how a fighter designed to do such things overheats in battle in space but cools down in an oxygen/nitrogen atmosphere instead, a much warmer environment. Even if they occur at the same time, unless explained otherwise by overlapping feedback like a radio transmission between two characters, the assumption is that time has passed since movies are not still life.

Mission accomplished, yeah, but in Ep 4, they destroy the death star, and both times they know why. You attack a ship and it just explodes, it's the wing leader's job to know why. So Osama Bin Laden dies. If you don't know why, what sort of seal team are you?

Unlikely that 20 ships worth of droids would all be able to be controlled by one ship.

Nitpicky, you're talking to a writer/storyteller here. It may not bother you, and that's fine. To me it's a cardinal sin. I want movies that I can enjoy and escape into, not have cause to question whether the world works because the writer/director didn't take the time to do their job properly. Most SW fans agree with me on episode 1, for sure. No offense of course, but I have held Episode 1 as one of my examples of bad storytelling for 12 years.



Episode 2, that's what I mean exactly. Anakin's story didn't sync with Obi Wan's. If he'd had to fight for her, that would've made it a love story. I don't buy couples that just 'fall for each other' with no real obstacles at all. That's not how love works, in fiction or reality. Not in romcoms, not in scifi, not with my mate and I. We had fights. We had to learn how to be a couple, etc.

I agree with you, Anakin and Obi Wan should've stayed together.

At least episode 3 was moderately decent.

There are RARE instances where being bad is good, but it is an even finer art to make bad film good or achieve cult status. These are few and far between, and it takes an even more skilled hand to do so.

Yeah, episode I.... I had not thought it possible to ruin movies BEFORE I saw that train wreck. I had waited my whole life to see a new star wars movie in the theatres, and we get Jar Jar Binks? Anakin's bad dialogue about angels? Characters with one dimension that don't make sense half the time? I mean, you want Amidala to sign a treaty to make it legal, but as soon as you get her, you send her away? Why fake out the gungans when you want to earn their trust? If they're going to kill you, a double won't change that you die too. Not to mention if the first thing someone does is lie to me, I'm not going to aid their culture. Sorry.

I agree there. The new trilogy... Really isn't needed. A lot of fans will fear the damage being made worse after episodes 1-3. They could redeem the franchise, but it will take a LOT of crow eating for the franchise to win some back. With the bad episode 1-2, passable 3, and the horrible CGI clone wars cartoon (though I admit the pilot was enough to turn me off) plus video games ranging from great to horrible, so many books that don't line up..... UGH. I don't know if it's salvageable. JJ Abrams and I have a 50/50 relationship. Half of his stuff I like, half if it I hate with a passion. There is no middle ground, and each time he must earn my approval. When I see a trailer, I will make my judgment then.

As for episode II, this sums it up nicely what I found wrong with it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nJS-LPcFfw

Perhaps, I just got so mad at the fact that in the pilot episode (which is intended to give you an idea of what to expect for the show... The jedi get past a force field by hiding under a washtub. :P SERIOUSLY????? Then she called him 'sky guy' which just... No.
Then anakin is promoted to master, when the whole point of episode II or III was that he was added to the jedi council but not made a master. It seemed like if you're planning on doing a television series, his becoming a master would be in season 2 or 3 at the soonest.

To me, Episode 4-6, KOTOR, and a handful of the books seem to be 'consistent' and of sufficient quality for me to ok it.

The rest, I have to deny its existence for my own sanity. Episode 1-3... I watch them sometimes, but if they'd been done well, I'd want to watch them a lot more.

I don't deny that sometimes they need time to grow, but a lot of shows don't make it out of their freshman year. Starting out with less than your best is just not a good way to begin. In the world of pro story writing, your A game is always needed. A bad pilot can mean a show gets cancelled after 3 episodes.

I'm not saying you can't do it, I just found it so insulting to my intelligence and the plot that I just can't forgive that. Strike one, stands.

Yeah, they do, but that name just... UGH. She didn't even try to come up with a good nickname. She rhymed. If they dropped it eventually, the damage is already done. Though at least that means their learning curve isn't a flat line.

I admit I didn't pay a lot of attention to the pilot so you may be right, but between the bad pilot and Lucas just being.... So bad for episodes I and II, I just can't bring myself to go back to an abusive boyfriend for more abuse, even if he says he's changed. I'll tentatively keep an eye out for 7-9, but I refuse to give Lucas any more validation than necessary, even if it's in thought waves. I can't. Scar damage that bad takes a LOOOONG time for fan wounds to heal.

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/5229486/

The problem with the books is that everyone and his brother wrote for new republic, and unlike the modern day trek authors, the SW authors do not talk to each other or Lucas that it seems. The continuity is such a mobius strip that there are levels of canon in star wars.

NO. I don't like having to argue with others what is 'legit' and what is not. A franchise must have a guiding hand. One canon, and that's all. A main book series, a movie, a television show, whatever, but the creator's hand must be present to guide it.

Joss Whedon and Ronald D. Moore are the masters at this, and my idols regarding writing.


The characters will be around. :) Star Wars arts... rare, but it happens. :)

I don't know how many fanfictioned star wars, but I honestly I don't care because i made up a fanfic jedi too.

Star Wars.... Is problematic there. Unlike star trek, the authors don't talk to each other and don't line up their books. I think I read somewhere there were 6 or 7 layers of 'canon' with star wars. There should only be one or two. ;P Canon being what's 'legit' insofar as the universe has established. Fanfic... Is random, since there is no governing body so to speak.

I heard that on tv just now

May the Fourth be with you? :)

yeah while I was watching a Nascar last Sunday they were their KFC how do you KFC? social pick

May the Fourth be w/ ya as well

this a cool picture and May The Fourth Be With You, LaurenRivers

Quite!

oh sorry Lauren Rivers of hurt to your feeling.

You didn't. :)

really?!.......oh my bad, LaurenRivers

I agree, the prequels did have a lot of problems with them. The original trilogy was just down impressive, but if you want to see the prequels done way better, than check out Knights Of The Old Republic. These games are what the prequels should've been.

It depends on what Era you like. I love the prequels and hate the old republic era

Can't agree with you there, the midichlorian thing just... Doesn't make sense. Red Letter Media pretty much sums up my feelings on episode 1-3. Of course, they're pretty to look at, but poor storytelling.

Midichlorians is just a little thing that tells us about the force, like what Obi Wan did in Ep4. Makes perfect sense. But Red Letter Media can rot in hell. they have no idea what they are talking about and are very annoying.

No, it does not. Midichlorians contradict what Obi Wan says in Ep 4. There is no reason to explain the same thing twice two different ways. Either they're something you test for like herpes or they're an extrauniversal force that everyone has contact with in some way. It cannot be both.

As I said elsewhere... I keep wondering every time I rewatch episode 1, why they even brought Anakin back to Naboo at all? He was on Coruscant to begin his training. He was safe. So Qui Gon takes him to a war zone to retake the planet, why? He has no combat skills. He gets there and they have no plan, as they discuss it during landing. Lastly, Anakin is ordered to hide in a fighter (where the bad guys would never look, sarcasm), and he just pushes the right button to activate the ship, which auto pilots out of the hangar and doesn't get shot down (though it is not evading in any way), flies up to the battle (which could not have been preprogrammed since the pilots only JUST got to their ships five minutes ago) and is not shot down until he gets into the battle, where he flies through their shields into the hangar. The fighter overheats, but even though droids are ten feet away, Anakin is not pulled out during the five minutes the movie follows the other characters. When we cut back to him, he's still there. REALLY??? He takes off, shoots the ONE THING that blows up the ship (from the hangar bay no less) and the other pilots act like they all accomplished something.

Plus, where did the blockading armada go? Why is there only ONE ship at the end?

Midi-chlorians are microscopic organisms which allow Jedi and other Force-sensitive beings to connect to the Force.

Obi Wan. "Well, the Force is what gives a Jedi his power. It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us; it binds the galaxy together.

Nowhere does it say tht they make the force or they are the force, they are just one of the many ways the force works. The force is still a huge mystery Through my interpretation, midi-chlorians are only important for one purpose: they are the way that the Jedi are able to measure force ability.( Hense Anakins is so high and the most skilled Jedi of the era) That's what the jedi looks for, to see how high your count is to see how good force powers you will have. Vader saying in ep 4 "the force is strong with this one." cause lukes count is high just like his fathers.

- Qui Gon took Anakin because the council would not let him train Anakin. there was no place for Anakin to go at the time. hense Anakin telling him he did to want to be a problem. Qui Gon being a Jedi he was, wanted to protect Anakin because Qui gon freed him and brought him with him to become a jedi. it would not be the jedi way to just leave anakin with no place to go.

- their first step to getting there would be to find the gungans cause they had a army. they could not plan anything cause they did not know if the gungans would join them or not.

- The auto pilot would had followed the leader of the attack group. That was Ric Olie, the leader of Bravo group.( another way would be R2)

- droids are dumb, they don't think. not till ep2

- the pilots did not know what was going on cause they even said they did not hit it. but what would you do if something your fighting starts to explode? your celebrate.

- the invasion was illegal, the trade federation was just trying to save their asses when the commission was sent to naboo for the truth. so the senate at the time only seen one droid control ship. If all the ships were still their Nute gunray would not have been freed and would still be the vicory of the trade federation after ep1

That's basically saying being a good jedi is entirely hereditary. NO. I refuse to believe in a master race.

That does not explain why Anakin was taken back to Naboo, an obviously unsafe place. No. Qui Gon would have put him up in a hotel or something. He might not be allowed to train him, but that makes no sense to take him back to Naboo, a certain danger. You leave him where he is safe, with a babysitter or a friend.

Again, no. You don't not plan just because you don't know everything. You make several plans. One where the gungans help you, one where they don't. To just NOT plan until you get there is just stupidity. What if you're shot down on your return? You have the entire trip there.

Auto pilot is not magic. You're telling me you activate all the fighters on auto pilot, they just follow the leader? Why even bother with pilots then? Slave the controls to the leader. That's extremely unlikely. Autopilot is like cruise control. It keeps the ship moving but that's it. If you're going to say 'it's the future' or the approximation of it, it still makes no sense to have a button you can push that just 'flies' the ship until Anakin can get control of it.

Dumb, yes. This does not explain why they do not pull anakin from the ship. They were TEN FEET away. They took the gungans captive after the start of the final battle, so they are programmed for tactical threats. Why would you program your droids to ignore an active threat inside your ship?

If you don't know why, you don't.

He was freed because the Senate was corrupt. It does not explain why you have 20 ships at the start of the film and 1 at the end.

Wow, you have a point. Never really looked at it like that. But I can see why they brought him back, I mean he is a programming genius and he had to stay by Qui Gon due to the fact that he really wasn't supposed to have Anakin in the first place.

Wow, you have a point. Never really looked at it like that. But I can see why they brought him back, I mean he is a programming genius and he had to stay by Qui Gon due to the fact that he really wasn't supposed to have Anakin in the first place.

No, he built a robot. How much programming that required is debatable since C3P0 was clearly not finished and not necessarily that advanced at the time. Also, without a plan, you couldn't know you needed a programmer even if that's what anakin was, which arguably is not much since most of his backstory is not really that different from an NPC. I doubt seriously a child could survive a pod crash, considering they travel and hundreds of miles per hour, force powers be darned. One crash would kill most humans and aliens. Anyway, bringing him back made no sense. Leave him with someone who will take care of him until you get back. There's no way Qui Gon could've anticipated he'd be useful or safe based on what he knew at the time.

hmmm, I see your point. And the more I look at it the more I see that George and his crew really sucked on the story for this one. However, Anakin's programming skills are not as debatable as you might think, considering he was a translator droid and new almost every language there was. This means that one of to things had to be true-Anakin had to know almost every language(doubtful) or he had to know how to program them into C3PO, which I would see required a large amount of skill especially since he was a slave and got either barely to no education. I will take your point into consideration and remember to use it whenever conversation strikes up. Thank you for this little piece of knowledge.

Anakin probably didn't get much of an education, though many things with computers these days can be installed without much technical knowledge. Most of the programs on your computer, for example. Anakin could've just had the necessary programs, now if he'd had to repair or hadn't finished C3P0 at the time, maybe that would've been more clear to show his ability.

Still, my largest concern is that the more I watch the film, the more it seems apparent Anakin is only brought back to Naboo to facilitate the ending. Everything he does once there can be argued to be coincidence.

I feel the same, the more I watch it the more is seems do be a quick wright(didn't take their time and thus it doesn't make sense). However I still continue to try to make sense of it so to completely enjoy the movie. I see that with out that bit of poorly thought-out story, it wouldn't make sense for Anakin to be one of the best pilots there is.

Episode I is a pretty good example of things that don't work, but it's not unwatchable. I like the lightsaber battles and the eye candy, but it just isn't a strong story.

Yep, but back then when all the "eye candy" was new it didn't really matter about the story. All people wanted to see was action and explosions. Now, everyone's a critic so they notice these kinds of things.

I agree with you there. KOTOR was a far superior tale to the prequels. I loved the first game, though the second they ran out of time and did not finish the game properly. Still, the first game was impressive. The prequels had a lot of issues, mostly involving character development, convenient plot twists, and poor world construction.

I actually just bought both games for the bucks each, so that was definitely worth the price (Even if KOTOR 2 was fairly rushed and somewhat unfinished) The prequels had so many awkward problems and situations, and they made Anakin into a pansy. I only watched the movie for the Sith Lords, and General Grievous (And they somehow screwed up both of them)

I loved the first. The second, could've been great it if it was finished properly, but oh well. I'm with you on the prequels, the sith lords are some of the high points. I'm just mad every time they had someone with more than one lightsaber they lost it in three seconds.

Sorry, I meant to say three bucks each. I think for that amount KOTOR 2 is worth it (Although, technically I bought it back in the day for 20 but it glitched out and wouldn't run on my PC so I never got a chance to properly play it back then) The whole lightsabers thing was dumb, why carry two lightsabers and drop the other one right away? I'm a monkey and I can hold five lightsabers at once, and never worry about dropping any of them. XD

That's what annoyed me. We've seen the one saber style. I wanted to see more of the other kinds. All the battles develop into one before it goes very far. Both Maul (who gets his cut in half), Grievous (who loses two arms fast), and Anakin, (who has his hand cut off) when handeling more than one.

I think the reason behind it is that George Lucas has as serious dismemberment fetish, so every time someone tries to wield one lightsaber Lucas goes into his kinky place and decides to quell his lust. Or maybe he just wants every fight to be fair. XD

Handling

I'd have a light saber duel with you but it wouldn't be fair. Bunnies are so much faster than zebras you'd be totally outclassed.

Bunny isn't a trained jedi. :)

So far as YOU know. You are on the light side. Bunny has friends in low places, don't you know. *breathes like Darth Vader to hint at what she means*

EEK!

May it make you strong (I is sith)

EEK!

Wow, looking good. The artist did an amazing job on it.

The force was strong with her. ;)

The new Jedi council is off to a good start. :)

I am inclined to agree with your judgements about episodes 1-3. They put too much emphasis of flash and wow, and not enough on good acting/storytelling. And Jar Jar really had no place in the story.

Why thank you. ;) *hugs* Personally, I was hoping that with the new trilogy they'd start with a whole new cast. Maybe one or two key cameos. I'm hoping it's better than the prequels, but I am hesitant. I always had an idea of a star wars ish idea based around a pair of rival female masters, one of which had left the past behind, and the other trying to revive it.

Absolutely. It was a mistake for Lucas to write/direct/produce. He had said that the only reason he had to hold himself back on the past trilogy was that he didn't have the tools he needed. Now that he had CGI he didn't have to hold himself back, and clearly he didn't. Rather than make the circumstances fit the story, he made the story fit the circumstances. The writing was poor, the plot convenient, and many things put in there with no story justification at all. For example, Jar Jar was useful in part 2 and 3, but he was wasted in one. If he'd at least proved competent in the end he may have earned fan adoration, but his comedic bumbling simply provided the opposite. I keep wondering every time I rewatch episode 1, why they even brought Anakin back to Naboo at all? He was on Coruscant to begin his training. He was safe. So Qui Gon takes him to a war zone to retake the planet, why? He has no combat skills. He gets there and they have no plan, as they discuss it during landing. Lastly, Anakin is ordered to hide in a fighter (where the bad guys would never look, sarcasm), and he just pushes the right button to activate the ship, which auto pilots out of the hangar and doesn't get shot down (though it is not evading in any way), flies up to the battle (which could not have been preprogrammed since the pilots only JUST got to their ships five minutes ago) and is not shot down until he gets into the battle, where he flies through their shields into the hangar. The fighter overheats, but even though droids are ten feet away, Anakin is not pulled out during the five minutes the movie follows the other characters. When we cut back to him, he's still there. REALLY??? He takes off, shoots the ONE THING that blows up the ship (from the hangar bay no less) and the other pilots act like they all accomplished something.

Plus, where did the blockading armada go? Why is there only ONE ship at the end?

That plot is so full of holes you could've flown a star destroyer through it. Too convenient, too easy, too perfect for Anakin. Not a compelling story, I'm afraid.

BUT! Flashy! Explosions! Cool droid armies! And a supporting character entirely animated in CGI! This movie will make millions!

(sigh...)

That's one thing I still think I CAN do well. I know how to use what I have to best effect. I don't see how you can have all those assets and use them so poorly.

Very awesome work!

A lovely, graceful Jedi, with great poise.

Clemi did a great job, and thank you!

Wait, you mean I missed Star Wars day. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ah well, I'm a sith anyways, I probably would've "crashed the party".

Whoa... just seeing this reminded me that star wars exists. OvO

*shame

It's okay, it hasn't really been memorable since Jedi. I don't really like the prequels, Lucas ruined them, but hey, he's in denial and such, with luck episode 7 will salvage the series.

Hopefully... oh and I'm a Hippogryph now. ^v^

Oh and nice sub too btw. ^v^

Thanks :)

OH MY GOD!!! a jedi, so cooooooooooooool
P.S: i like the 3(at least until the part that Anakin becomes Vader) and wanted to see a movie of Star Wars set in the Great War between the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire

Clemi does a great job on these.

I like the original trilogy.... The prequels, they have great effects but terrible story. I watch them for the pretty, but I don't really consider them good writing. I hope Episodes 7-9 are better.

Seemed appropriate to finally fave this, given that the new film is out. Seen it yet?

I have, I was suitably pleased and glad that it felt like the old Star Wars. ;) I look forward to episode 8. :) I'm also pleased they acknowledged that just because Darth Vader and the emperor are dead, it doesn't mean the empire is gone. I love that they addressed that. :)