Chat corner: 9: Attack of something

[annathecrow]

Welcome to this week’s chat corner!

 

Optional chat prompt

This week’s topic is “Star Wars: Attack of the Clones”. Second movie in the prequel trilogy, little Ani is all grown up and here to give us all a load of second-hand embarrassment! Also, is it just me or does Padmé’s penthouse look like a cross between Art Deco and 90s hotel lobby?

 

Comments

[fleurviolette]

Yes! Padme’s apt definitely has that Art Deco aesthetic.

I liked the deleted scenes where Padme brings Anakin to her family. So idyllic and sweet, yet very expansive on her back story. Definitely mentioned this before but it makes a very interesting what if? au if Luke or Leia was given to the Naberries to be raised tho hidden in plain sight. Very risky but hey they are family too.

Furthermore, I’m still fond of the legends canon that Leia and Pooja were fellow senator friends, not knowing that they were cousins.

[yourlibrarian]

It seems so telling to me that this rushed relationship plot should have one of the few development scenes for it cut while we have an endless speeder chase early on.

However overall I thought this was the best of the three films. The mystery (and horror reveal, really) of the clones and the arena scene and arrival of the Jedi was really striking at the time. For someone who grew up with the original trilogy when Jedi were rare, it was kind of amazing to see them in numbers in battle. Plus, of course, we finally saw Yoda in action, giving us some idea why he was the head of the order (aside from his long life).

Perhaps too it's because Clone Wars the series leads off after the 2nd film that it seems a number of important storylines are laid out in this one, whereas the third film is more like a checkbox of things that have to happen to set the stage for the next trilogy.

[fleurviolette]

Yup, agreed to all those things. The battle of Geonosis was epic to watch on screen. It was that movie that really got me into Star Wars, since I grew up around the time that the prequels were in theaters. I was a bit too young to remember ep 1 but ep 2 was the gateway to Star Wars for me.

The Clone Wars micro series was good too. And I also enjoyed playing Battlefront.

[annathecrow]

I gotta admit, when I saw the movie for the first time I could not take Yoda seriously at all. :D I just couldn't get the image of old cranky Yoda from OT out of my head.

You do have the point about Ep II vs Ep III - Ep II still gave a feeling that things are starting, while all Ep III could do was basically Ruin Everything (TM).

[fleurviolette]

That’s interesting! The first time that I watched the OT was after ep. 2. I didn’t imagine Yoda that way.

[annathecrow]

Yeah, I wish Padmé got more space in the Prequels. I'm sure it could have been done if she had been more of a priority.

[fleurviolette]

Agreed, without her, we wouldn’t have Luke and Leia.

[annathecrow]

Yeah, and she's a pretty cool character by herself, when the plot lets her. I'm reading Queen's Shadow now (the YA novel by E. K. Johnston) and she's great there.