Revenge of the Sith Easter Eggs

Ant writes "Via TheForce.Net, a StarWars.com article with a great list of Easter Eggs from the third prequel movie, Revenge of the Sith. There were many cameos and hidden images." From the article: " It's tiny, but visible enough to send a warm fuzzy through the hearts of original trilogy fans. In the establishing shot of the expansive Senate docking bays, there's a tiny Millennium Falcon easing into frame. And it's not just a non-descript Corellian freighter; it's on good authority -- namely George Lucas -- that this is the infamous hunk-of-junk before it came into the ownership of either Lando Calrissian or Han Solo."

Comments

Re:huh?

[croddy]

the kessel run, allegedly, was a test of maneuverability -- not of speed. a ship that could navigate a shorter route through a mess of spatial anomalies, asteroids, black holes, etc., was an admirable ship.

Re:What bothered me about Anakin's downfall

[sg3000]

> Instead of basically just a one-liner saying how he'd run the
> galaxy, it would have been more interesting for him to 'see'
> lack of order in the galaxy causing chaos.

It wasn't just a one-liner. Anakin's feelings about this were all through Episodes II and III.

In Episode II, there was the whole discussion between Padme and Anakin on Naboo. Anakin says the system doesn't work. Padme asked how would he make it work.

Anakin: We need a system where the politicians sit down and discuss the problems, agree what's in the best interests of all the people, and then do it.

Padme: That is exactly what we do. The trouble is that people don't
wlways agree. In fact, they hardly ever do.

Anakin: Then they should be made to.

Padme: By whom? Who's going to make them?

Anakin: I don't know. Someone.

Padme: You?

Anakin: Of course not me.

Padme: But someone.

Anakin: Someone wise.

Padme: That sounds an awful lot like a dictatorship to me.

Anakin: Well, if it works...

Anakin in the scene can tell that Padme is shocked, so he plays it off that he's joking. Padme can't believe that Anakin feels that way so she assumes he's just kidding.

In Episode III, when Obi-Wan laments that the Senate is going to vote for more direct power under Palpatine, Anakin is pleased because it will help them make decisions faster and fight more effectively.

Re:What's Wrong with New "Star Wars" Trilogy?

[Reverberant]

Nowhere is said that Darth Vader/Anakin gets weaker losing limbs. What is the midichlorian just jumped from the limbs to his head? He would be strong anyway. But I would be jumping into conclusions, don't I?

It's never stated in the movies, but the idea of Vader losing power because he loses his limbs comes straight from an interview with Lucas in the February issue of Vanity Fair (the one with the SW actors on the cover, p 167, 1st paragraph).

The article isn't online, but you can find people who have quoted portions of the article:

"Anakin, as Skywalker, as a human being, was going to be extremely powerful. But he ended up losing his arms and a leg and became partly a robot. So a lot of his ability to use the Force, a lot of his powers, are curbed at this point, because, as a living form, there's not that much of him left. So his ability to be twice as good as the Emperor disappeared, and now he's maybe 20 percent less than the Emperor. So that isn't what the Emperor had in mind. He wanted this really super guy, but that got derailed by Obi-Wan. So he finds that, with Luke, he can get a more primo version if he can turn Luke to the Dark Side."

Re:What's Wrong with New "Star Wars" Trilogy?

[Brandybuck]

You have to think of Episodes I - VI as as a single movie, and due to the way Lucas made the movies, you walked into the middle of "the film".

Hate to burst your bubble, but that's utter crap. It's Lucas Revisionism at its worst. The original Star Wars was a stand alone movie. Period. It didn't even have the "Episode IV" subtitle in the original theatrical release. The plot wasn't one sixth of a story, but a near-direct reuse of the plot from "The Hidden Fortress".

Lucas may have orginally envisioned a series of movies, but he most certainly did not have a complete plot in mind for all six episodes.