One of the things that was most missing from The Phantom Menace was a cool character that all guys want to be, like Han Solo from the first three. I wondered why Lucas would not put someone like that in these movies and now I think I get it.
Hayden Christensen will be that cool guy. Have you seen the stills of him fighting with that light-saber? Have you seen him in the night-club? He looks, well, just plain cool.
If they have a cool guy in these next movies, it might just save the series. I don’t know. I just thought I’d write this.
Actually, what I thought was missing was no love interest: no romance, no flirting, no rivalry, no tension. Left a big void in it for me. Somebody shoulda been after somebody, y’know?
Hopefully, they’ve changed her character from “Stoned Cardboard Cut-out”. Luckily, Amidala is no longer Queen in Ep.II, so she won’t have to have that “guarded politician” air.
On a side note… aren’t “Queens” typically part of a monarchy? So what’s up with this whole thing about Amidala being “elected”? And who was her competition for the throne if the people chose a 14-year-old (or however old Amidala was supposed to be)?
Wasn’t it implied that Amidala & Anakin were up to some adolescent & toddler snogging when no-one was looking? Sure, it’s kind of creepy, but the annoying little squirt was supposed to be so preternaturally precocious-- Confident with fast machines…
“Yes Luke, your father was already a great lover when I first met him.”
I kind of wondered about this; there was that “look” she gave him at the end…but I kept telling myself I was imagining it (in between bouts of imagining some adolescent & adult snogging betwixt Amidala & meself, natch).
All will be revealed in due course, but you may all rest assured. Anakin is the cool guy, but he has shadows… so Obi Wan also has a roguish side to him too.