ok, about to get embarrassingly geeky here...

imho, i think his lack of subtlety was perfectly placed. the sith had been waiting in the shadows for early a thousand years, since darth bane, to be perfectly poised to rule the galaxy. now with palpatine as the chancellor of the senate thetime is perfect. most of the jedi are out leading the clone troopers, and palpatine can execute order 66 at any time. he knows that the jedi council is already suspicious of him and they need to be destroyed.
what better way to goad them into a face to face confrontation that saying "hey hey! im a dark lord of the sith!" at the same time he promises anakin a way to save his wife, playing on his fears. as is predictable anakin tells the masters in the temple, who then go and confront palpatine. straight out palpatine kills 3 of the jedi masters, and probably could have taken mace, considering he later kicked yodas ***. however he waits till anakin arrives to see him being 'attacked' by mace windu. anakin believes palpatine is his only chance to save his love, and disables mace allowing palpatine to kill him and firmly cementing anakin in the dark side. if you ask me its a plan that was perfectly executed....

...eesh, oh the terrible nerdyness...

With the death star completed, R2D2 realizes they're out of time, so he gets Bail Organa to order Antilles to take him and Leigh to Obi-Wan right away, and he makes sure Chewbacca is waiting there to wisk them off. This is why R2D2 is so insistant upon 'escaping'. When Obi-wan calls him 'my little friend', he means it, but it's also a reminder to R2D2 not to spill the beans to Luke just yet.

I hate the scene with Anakin and Padma, on her home world, and he says that stupid line, "blah blah your skin is soft blah".. It makes me want to puke

Two words.

Mind Erased.

Leigh aye?

Probably what pissed me off the most with the PT is that the soundtracks aren't the complete scores as seen in the movies like the OT sets are. I want the Order 66 temple music, dammit.

actually, its a great march, and it is on the soundtracks, its reused from Episode II around 2:35 in "Love Pledge and the Arena"

=]

There really are some jewels in the Prequels

Obi Wans haircuts = my fave.

The whole reusing music from the other movies is what pissed me off... and battle of the heroes was not that great.... too short. The lightsaber battle, could have been 10x more dramatic.

leitmotifs

That's what happens when fat middle-aged geeks try to write intimate, emotional dialog.

I don't have any problem with reusing music, that's the entire point behind the thematic style that Williams started doing in the OT. You here a piece of music and you instantly know what it's relating to.

Except the problem with the prequels is that it reuses many music tracks with no variation. Take for instance, Duel of the Fates. It was a great piece, but why did it have to be used when Anakin races on his speeder bike to his mother? A variation of the force theme that sounded more desperate or heroic would have worked better there. Finally, Duel of the Fates is used again when Yoda fights Palpatine. For such an epic duel, you think Williams would have created an entirely original piece. I think I recall reading somewhere that he had little time to record the score for the movie, but I honestly think he started to grow tired of Star Wars or something.

Just to note, in the original trilogy a bunch of leitmotifs are reused, but they always had a different spin to them kind of like Lord of the Rings.

Also I going to say that the diner scene with Obi Wan and that poorly rendered fat-a**, what the ****. Did anyone in the movie's production team thought this through? A diner that looks like it's directly from the 50's in a Sci Fi movie? I know it'si suppose to be comedy-relief but good job making the most disjointed scene in the movie.

I'm not going to sleep well tonight.

Well, that and the fact that they built a one story fifties diner in a place where land in so scarce that skyscrapers have to be built tens of miles high over the entire planet's surface.

This actually pertains to Ep I, but regarding Toydarians being immune to mind tricks. You'd think that something like that would be covered in Jedi Mind Trick 101, would save some embarrassment from waving your hand around trying to buy engine parts.

after watching ESB the other day i FINALLY figured out why people like Boba Fett so much

VADER: (to Fett) You may take Captain Solo to Jabba the Hut after I
have Skywalker.

Han's screams filter through the torture room door.

BOBA FETT: He's no good to me dead.

VADER: He will not be permanently damaged.

He stands up to Vader and shows he doesn't care who the hell he is all he wants is his man and his money, he even does it AGAIN later

BOBA FETT: What if he doesn't survive? He's worth a lot to me.

VADER: The Empire will compensate you if he dies. Put him in!

Normally, Vader wouldve been like STFU you get what you get, but he actually is AFRAID of Fett and agrees to pay him

Why is he afraid? probably because Boba knows how much of a ***** Anakin used to be and would spread rumors.

I think it's that George's way of directing sucks./QUOTE]

"Faster, more intense!"

Isn't it EU-canon(non-canon) that Boba Fett and Vader have faced off on a few occasions in the past? I'm pretty sure it was part of a comic book series.

I think Vader likes Boba, and it seems as if they know eachother. "No disintegration".

It may also be that they both lost someone (boba lost Jango, Vader lost Padme) so he might be going a little easier on him?

Or it may be the sheer fact that Boba is the only gunslinger to kill a jedi?

For the record, I thought Hayden's acting was fine. He did pretty good in Jumper and a few others. I think it's that George's way of directing sucks. He basically says "just do it how you think you should" instead of actually directing how it should be acted.

Out of all the prequels, Qui-Gon and Obi-wan are my favorite characters. Ewan saved obi-wan for me, as I didn't much care for the obi-wan of the OT. Especially in ep4, where his dislike for acting in the movie was obvious. I can't quite remember the scene, I just know he didn't like it. Which is actually why the cut him from the film, if I'm correct...

He did appear in the later ones, because he changed his mind after SW made such a huge debut.