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Okay, so I've been playing "Knights of the Old Republic" -- enjoying it thoroughly, btw -- and I think the thing I like most about it is the fleshing out of the pre-movie history. It actually answers the age-old question of who the "Sith" are. No, I don't read the novels or the comics, and I know a game isn't canonical, but that's a question that's never been even touched upon canonically. There were a lot of backstory questions I wanted the prequels to answer canonically, even though I found some of the answers quite lacking (see Fett, Boba and the whole every-stormtrooper-looks-like-Temuera-Morrison implication). KOTOR gives me background on the evolution of the Sith -- including a basic definition -- and even how the Mandalorians fit into it all, too, for which I'm grateful. But there are a few still-outstanding questions I wanted "Revenge of the Sith" to address....
-- Accents. I've been figuring that the (pseudo-)British accent is a sort of formal speech, which would explain why a few characters seem to turn it on and off (and Obi-Wan would be the type to always have it turned on, at any rate).
-- So how in the hell does a Sith Lord get himself appointed Chancellor right under the Jedis' collective nose?
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daethkow says it, I will -- how the hell does Leia remember her mother? Is she hallucinating? Lying? Going all Force-y?
-- When Obi-Wan announces that, if struck down, he'll only be more powerful than ever -- where the hell did this come from? Has he been meditating for years in the desert while harassing sandpeople?
-- I thought Obi-Wan said he trained Anakin.
-- For that matter, did Palpatine arrange to have Shmi bumped off?
-- So assuming every stormtrooper's a Jango-clone -- are they all old? Are there new batches? Did they have obedience programmed in? Tell me there's at least recruiting. I need to make more Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy jokes. (And yeah, there must've been two decades of genetic drift between Obi-Wan's prime and his assertion that the blast points on the sandcrawler were too accurate for anyone but stormtroopers. By now the rejects from the Clone Trooper Maker must have two left feet, no fingers and a persistent twitch. Hell, even those they accept bang their heads on doors and emit quite unheroic Wilhelm screams.)
[Aside: I'm also still disappointed that Yoda ever picked up a lightsaber. Note that in ESB, Obi-Wan describes Yoda as a Jedi master, never as a great warrior -- that's entirely Luke's baggage and his perception of mastery. I was hoping Yoda would've proven to have transcended a need for violence with Zenlike placidity and empathy.]
I'm glad that the latest cut of ROTS answers a few of those questions, including one I'd never thought they'd get to. ( Big ROTS guest-star spoiler follows. )
-- Accents. I've been figuring that the (pseudo-)British accent is a sort of formal speech, which would explain why a few characters seem to turn it on and off (and Obi-Wan would be the type to always have it turned on, at any rate).
-- So how in the hell does a Sith Lord get himself appointed Chancellor right under the Jedis' collective nose?
-- Before
daethkow says it, I will -- how the hell does Leia remember her mother? Is she hallucinating? Lying? Going all Force-y?-- When Obi-Wan announces that, if struck down, he'll only be more powerful than ever -- where the hell did this come from? Has he been meditating for years in the desert while harassing sandpeople?
-- I thought Obi-Wan said he trained Anakin.
-- For that matter, did Palpatine arrange to have Shmi bumped off?
-- So assuming every stormtrooper's a Jango-clone -- are they all old? Are there new batches? Did they have obedience programmed in? Tell me there's at least recruiting. I need to make more Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy jokes. (And yeah, there must've been two decades of genetic drift between Obi-Wan's prime and his assertion that the blast points on the sandcrawler were too accurate for anyone but stormtroopers. By now the rejects from the Clone Trooper Maker must have two left feet, no fingers and a persistent twitch. Hell, even those they accept bang their heads on doors and emit quite unheroic Wilhelm screams.)
[Aside: I'm also still disappointed that Yoda ever picked up a lightsaber. Note that in ESB, Obi-Wan describes Yoda as a Jedi master, never as a great warrior -- that's entirely Luke's baggage and his perception of mastery. I was hoping Yoda would've proven to have transcended a need for violence with Zenlike placidity and empathy.]
I'm glad that the latest cut of ROTS answers a few of those questions, including one I'd never thought they'd get to. ( Big ROTS guest-star spoiler follows. )
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