From: Dauntless Hunter | #023
But there's no good SPACE BATTLES! I could not give less of a **** about lightsabers and the Jedi who swing them. I came to see awesome starfighter dogfighting like only Star Wars can give you, and I got bupkis.
The really ****ty thing is that Episodes I and III have scenes that take place WITHIN awesome space battles, but instead of focusing on the battle we spend our time watching Anakin do boring crap.
This is a valid point that I never really gave much thought to.
(spoilers to follow)
Episode 4 = Awesome death star battle. Porkins and Biggs dying is ;_; but a lot of **** goes down in a great battle to blow up the death star.
Episode 5 = Battle against the AT-ATs on Hoth. Not quite an "outer space dogfight" but it still captures the desperate battle feeling you get in episode 4.
Episode 6 = Many bothans died to retrieve the plans that led to this awesome space fight that took place INSIDE of the unfinished superstructure of the second death star.
and then in Episode 1 all you get is close ups of anakin talking to artoo saying cute things like "oops!" when he messes up. I guess the movie gets partial credit for pod racing? But still nothing like the original trilogy.
Maybe this is why I love the Rogue Squadron and Wraith Squadron books so much..
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~Ç~ Eff_Dee
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