I'd include a reason why no-one - Padme and Naboo, the Jedi, Palaptine - decides to dip into their coffers to rescue Anakin's mum from slavery. Anakin saved Padme's whole planet; the Jedi might not want him to see her, but surely they don't want him always worrying about her; Palpatine wants to stress him out, but…

I agree. I don't have any problem understanding why a lot of people didn't like the prequels. The way out of proportion reaction to them on the other hand… Only someone properly invested in Star Wars could have the emotional energy to hate the new films, and obviously a lot of people do.

There is one character in the prequels who was always freaking out when things went south. He showed Solo-esque concern for his own neck, wasn't afraid to speak truth to power, and was skeptical of the force. He was also made a general for no clear reason, and even sported a snappy waistcoat.

More prequels should follow MGS3's example: an adventure focusing on an important character which reveals more about them as opposed to dramatising what we already know, while telling its own story. When it finished we had an understanding of who Big Boss was and what pissed him off so much, and we had an idea of…

I think Blu-ray does a lot for films that have a lot of composition in them, and I'd use Star Wars and LotR as the best examples. On Blu-ray you can see all the intricate details of the CG backgrounds, making them seem more textured and tangible. I was amazed at how good both SW and LOTR looked on blu-ray after…

I think the age you see them makes an enormous difference. I love Star Wars and always will, but I doubt if I'd held off seeing them till I was in my 20s they'd have had anywhere near the impact they've had on me.

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That is true. I withdraw my criticism (sadly eats chocolate bar).

My deep attachment to Kyle Katarn is wholly because I played the Dark Forces games when I was young enough to over invest in what was going on. I was with Kyle when he stole the Death Star plans and blew up the Arc Hammer damn it.

I think he liked a lot of it while thinking a lot of it was shit. A not unreasonable opinion. Plus, considering he came up with the thing and the people producing the EU stuff were being hired and paid by his company, I think he was within his rights to disregard and steamroll over stuff when it suited him.

Nah it hasn't. Star Wars' setting is brilliant, but the characters - Vader, Leia, Han, Palps, Luke, the droids, Yoda, Lando, Ben - are interesting enough to be beloved and iconic, and for all the guff that's said about how Star Wars just threw together conventions in a new way (said so often of Star Wars as if it's…

I'm worried they're going to waste Mikkelsen in a tough-guy bounty hunter role, when he was born to play a chilly Imperial commander who drops references about art into everything.

I remember reading that when I was 8. It was probably the first time my critical faculties were acute enough to think, 'that was a fucking stupid route to take this'. Because I was taking everything Star Wars as gospel, it bugged me when I watched Return of the Jedi thinking that IG-88 was playing all the characters…

I really don't think this is a fair criticism. A dragon can breathe fire from its mouth, so it must have a damn impressive tolerance to heat; but there's a pretty massive difference between being able to weather flames and being able to survive being wholly submerged in boiling metal.

Jedi Knight and Mysteries of the Sith had great ambient sound, even moreso than Outcast and Jedi Academy. The Sith Temple in Mysteries was genuinely really eerie with the ghostly whispering and the distant sounds of movement, and the various spaceport noises in Jedi Knight really subconsciously sold the idea that you…

Mine is the opening two levels of Dark Forces II. They're set on Nar Shaddaa, this wonderfully huge spaceport, something like a cross between Mos Eisley and Cloud City. While it's a new environment, there are so many things that really capture the Star Wars settng - you start in a cantina, there are those black crates…

The prequels get some stick for apparently going against the 'a Jedi uses the force for knowledge and defense, never for attack' rule, but it pretty clearly wasn't meant totally literally from the very off: in Jedi he obviously kills a lot of Jabba's henchmen, and Yoda - the guy who told him this - was planning all…

This already funny joke is rendered brilliant by introducing the concept of a satisfying sexual disease.

"It's Jedi-riffic Master Yoda. But is my upper lip supposed to bleed like this?"

I think Prometheus was infinitely more damaging to Alien than the prequels were to the OT. Infinitely