Poll of the Day > Favourite moment in Star Wars? (potential spoilers)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLFhbLSl1CU

That's mine.
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When the gungan do the silly fighting
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It was so great that we didn't get to see Anakin actually do anything in that scene. You know, because it's not like Darth Vader's purge of the Jedi temple was an event that had been hyped for decades at that point, or anything. Nope, him marching up the front steps scowling and then turning on his lightsaber in front of a bunch of scared kids was good enough.

Anyways, my favourite moment was Darth Vader's rampage at the end of Rogue One. Close second is the Battle of Endor. Just... in general. As a culmination of the saga, it was brilliant. If I have to pick just one part of it, it would be where (do I really need to mark spoilers for a 30+ year old movie?) the Emperor starts killing Luke and Vader intervenes - the music in that scene is just haunting, easily some of Williams' finest.
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Luke confronting Vader and the Emperor in the throne room in return of the jedi. that whole sequence is my favorite part of star wars. and possibly my favorite moment in all of cinema.

^Endor was awful because the Ewoks... If it had been anything but a bunch of fucking caveman Carebears, sure.... But come on... I understand they were supposed to be Wookies originally but they couldn't find enough tall people... Okay, so be creative with special effects and camera angles like every other part of the fucking series. I can begrudgingly accept the Empire losing to a bunch of bullshit if it's at least half plausible. My survivalist friend could single-handedly commit an Ewok genocide successfully.
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TheCyborgNinja posted...

^Endor was awful because the Ewoks... If it had been anything but a bunch of fucking caveman Carebears, sure.... But come on... I understand they were supposed to be Wookies originally but they couldn't find enough tall people... Okay, so be creative with special effects and camera angles like every other part of the fucking series. I can begrudgingly accept the Empire losing to a bunch of bullshit if it's at least half plausible. My survivalist friend could single-handedly commit an Ewok genocide successfully.

If you watch closely, you'll note that the Ewoks fail to actually kill any stormtroopers (aside from the AT-STs they knock over) - the best they do is knocking a few of them over. They spend most of the battle getting butchered wholesale.
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darkknight109 posted...

TheCyborgNinja posted...

^Endor was awful because the Ewoks... If it had been anything but a bunch of fucking caveman Carebears, sure.... But come on... I understand they were supposed to be Wookies originally but they couldn't find enough tall people... Okay, so be creative with special effects and camera angles like every other part of the fucking series. I can begrudgingly accept the Empire losing to a bunch of bullshit if it's at least half plausible. My survivalist friend could single-handedly commit an Ewok genocide successfully.

If you watch closely, you'll note that the Ewoks fail to actually kill any stormtroopers (aside from the AT-STs they knock over) - the best they do is knocking a few of them over. They spend most of the battle getting butchered wholesale.

It was still absurd though... Like throwing rocks at Stormtroopers and stuff?! And also, after the first Death Star blew up, they would obviously have things defended more securely, to the point a strike team would have difficulty accomplishing much of anything. It'd be like sneaking into North Korea, especially as the Emperor knew they were coming and the trap didn't involve leaving Endor actually wide open so everything there would get botched. The trick was solely "the Death Star isn't operational yet... Oops, it is."
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RoJ
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darkknight109 posted...

If you watch closely, you'll note that the Ewoks fail to actually kill any stormtroopers (aside from the AT-STs they knock over) - the best they do is knocking a few of them over. They spend most of the battle getting butchered wholesale.

We see only one Ewok die onscreen.
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Either the Luke/Vader fight on the 2nd death star and Vaders redemption

Or Vader killing all the rebels at the end of rogue one in spectacular fashion
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Kinda hard to pick one moment.

I loved "Execute Order 66" but I always felt bad for poor Aayla Secura

darkknight109 posted...

It was so great that we didn't get to see Anakin actually do anything in that scene. You know, because it's not like Darth Vader's purge of the Jedi temple was an event that had been hyped for decades at that point, or anything. Nope, him marching up the front steps scowling and then turning on his lightsaber in front of a bunch of scared kids was good enough.

Darth Vader's purge mostly continued *after* that initial purge, though. The bulk of the Jedi were killed by Order 66 and then Vader, etc, hunted down the remaining ones. As for the Jedi temple scene, he mostly just killed "young ones" (because they couldn't say "children")
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Porgs!!! xD
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darkknight109 posted...

Anyways, my favourite moment was Darth Vader's rampage at the end of Rogue One.

This.

And the reveal that you're actually Darth Revan!!!
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I really like the whole Bespin sequence.
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"I am altering the deal. Pray that I do not alter it any further." was a pretty badass moment. I was also a fan of "This battle-station is fully operational." which was a great twist

I also loved the battle on Hoth.

Garlands_Soul posted...

I really like the whole Bespin sequence.

Especially when they walk into the room and find Boba Fett, Vader, etc, waiting for them.
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Zeus posted...

Darth Vader's purge mostly continued *after* that initial purge, though.

...which we also don't get to see.

I sat through two and a half movies of dreck and the prequels didn't even have the decency to give me any sort of Darth Vader Jedi Killing payoff for it.

TheCyborgNinja posted...

And also, after the first Death Star blew up, they would obviously have things defended more securely, to the point a strike team would have difficulty accomplishing much of anything.

Star Wars is full of stuff like this, though. If you're expecting internally logical plots, you're watching the wrong franchise. The prequels are particularly bad for it, but the originals are far from free of it either. Here, I'll list one for each episode of the PT, which is far from an exhaustive list (minor spoilers for each film to follow):

-In Episode I, Qui-Gon picked the most obtuse and completely ridiculous way of getting off Tatooine when there were numerous other options available (like phoning back to Coruscant for a ride, or trading in their ship for a less-flashy one that actually has a working hyperdrive, or finding someone who wasn't immune to Qui-Gon's Jedi powers and mind-tricking them into swapping the Republic credits for the local currency [since Qui-Gon had already shown he was willing to do this to Watto, he should be fine with doing it to anyone else]). He literally makes a 9-year-old slave risk his life in a race that he's never successfully completed before, while betting multiple items that don't belong to him, and caps it off by standing in front of TV cameras with the winner of the race perched on his shoulders, despite his insistence that they have to keep a low profile to prevent the Trade Federation from finding them

-In Episode II, Jango Fett - supposedly the galaxy's most feared bounty hunter - receives a contract on the life of a galactic senator which, in theory, should be something that requires his personal attention. Instead, he sub-contracts to another assassin, who sub-sub-contracts to a droid (the assassin's role in this appears to have been nothing, save for walking five metres over to the droid and loading it up for the job). Between them, they pick the single assassination method that the Jedi could actually foil, bizarrely making the droid drop poisonous insects in Padme's room instead of just having the droid shoot her or blow itself up, either of which would have been undetectable by the Jedi until it was too late and would have been both faster and more reliable. When this fails, Obi-Wan makes the bizarre decision to jump on the droid's back, despite having no idea if it would just self-destruct now that its mission has been thwarted. However, he lucks out as, instead of just blowing up or carrying him off into the night, the droid takes him right back to its owner. Jango caps off this cascading chain of stupid by offing his underling using the only weapon in his arsenal that is highly traceable, which leads Obi-Wan directly to him and the planet his employer was attempting to hide from the Jedi (which ultimately culminates in a battle that gets a hair's breadth from scuppering Palpatine's entire plan).

Episode II/III: Thanks to Jango's aforementioned idiocy, Obi-Wan discovers that the records in the Jedi Temple have been tampered with. He heads off to Kamino and discovers a secret clone army, ordered years ago by someone impersonating a dead Jedi. Both of these point to someone with significant power working against the Jedi, likely from within the Republic itself. Yet incredibly, in the years afterwards that the Clone Wars raged, nobody in the Republic ever thought to maybe investigate this suspiciously convenient army or look into how they're being made and trained; if they did, they might have noticed that all of them have an anti-Jedi kill-order hard-coded into them from birth.
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darkknight109 posted...

Zeus posted...

Darth Vader's purge mostly continued *after* that initial purge, though.

...which we also don't get to see.

I sat through two and a half movies of dreck and the prequels didn't even have the decency to give me any sort of Darth Vader Jedi Killing payoff for it.

Yeah, that annoys me as well. The only reason I wanted to see Episode III was to see Anakin fighting a bunch of Jedi.

I also hate Order 66.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ev7rj70QYA
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Eating a bowl of this:
https://www.mrbreakfast.com/ucp/50_5271_ucp.jpg
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quigonzel posted...

As cool as that Vader moment was, it makes my brain itch because no more than a few days later he's battling Obi-wan on the Death Star like a geriatric.

That doesn't bother me cause I know it was solely because of the limitations of the tech way back then.

quigonzel posted...

Inconsistencies against established canon is one of many reasons I hated Rogue One.

What inconsistencies?
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darkknight109 posted...

Episode II/III: Thanks to Jango's aforementioned idiocy, Obi-Wan discovers that the records in the Jedi Temple have been tampered with. He heads off to Kamino and discovers a secret clone army, ordered years ago by someone impersonating a dead Jedi. Both of these point to someone with significant power working against the Jedi, likely from within the Republic itself. Yet incredibly, in the years afterwards that the Clone Wars raged, nobody in the Republic ever thought to maybe investigate this suspiciously convenient army or look into how they're being made and trained; if they did, they might have noticed that all of them have an anti-Jedi kill-order hard-coded into them from birth.

Ironically, it was a handful of the clones themselves that wound up investigating that. It did not go well for them.

Too many favorite moments in Star Wars for me to pick a specific one. Though Maul vs. Sidious is probably my favorite saber fight.

My favorite moment was when you could watch the original movies without the "updates".

Lucas order 66'd all copies of the original cuts.
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"All too easy."

*leap*

"Impressive"

*fwoom*

"Most impressive"
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