The Train Job... yeuch, and this comes from a die-hard Browncoat. I mean, not bad, especially compared to other not so hot sci-fi, but one of my least favorite of the short series (least favorite is The Message, though reviews on that one are always moxed; it seems it's a love it or hate it ep.
As much as I hate to do it, gotta agree with you about Lucas and women; Padme in particular shed a whole new different and unpleasant light on the situation. From the very beginning, we see her manipulated by just about everyone, something he would have never degraded Leia with. Imagine Grand Moff Tarkin actually tricking her into revealing where the Rebels are hiding? Didn't think so. And that wouldn't be nearly so bad as being tricked into, albeit in a backhanded way, helping boost Palps into power. I think she's more interesting weepy and preggers too, maybe just because it forces Nat to DO SOMETHING FOR F**KS SAKE! We saw how important he thought both she and Mon were when he chopped both of them considerably (Ms. Mothma completely!) out of RotS. And I quite agree on the female Jedi front as well; I can onyl hope, with the new tv series featuring lesser canon characters between the times of the PT and OT that maybe one of them what didn't get to be Clone fodder becomes a star (neither Barriss nor Luminara, my two faves, got mowed down on screen).
Sometimes I think that Leia in large part kicks as much ass as she does with extensive help from Carrie's take no prisoners performance and Kersh's ESB direction (for which I am eternally grateful to him for changing the Bespin 'You should dress like a girl more often' scene. Ew.).
As for the EU, well, that's just hopeless but that's not Lucas' fault; it's basically been confirmed time and again he has no clue what's going on in the books which is probably just as well 'cause the more continuity mistakes they make, the easier it is to dismiss it. Mara started strongly but became a SHREW (with Luke knuckling under and offering to join the Empire just 'cuase she missed, y'know, being able to kill people for no reason and having so much power) and Jaina, blech. The others are barely worth mentioning (except Shada. Shada rules and is so underused it makes my head fall off!) though I must say, prequel-era EU is definitely where it's at, if one is reading. Shatterpoint: Best EU ever.
And I can't help but feel that a lot of the OT EU female characterization is mostly done to put Leia down (Han had another love of his life, Leia was rebound girl; Jaina constantly puts her mother down; Mara is soo much more powerful and wise than any Jedi, including the males like Yoda or Ben). Just hopeless, I tells ya! :-/
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Date: 2005-10-28 04:56 pm (UTC)As much as I hate to do it, gotta agree with you about Lucas and women; Padme in particular shed a whole new different and unpleasant light on the situation. From the very beginning, we see her manipulated by just about everyone, something he would have never degraded Leia with. Imagine Grand Moff Tarkin actually tricking her into revealing where the Rebels are hiding? Didn't think so. And that wouldn't be nearly so bad as being tricked into, albeit in a backhanded way, helping boost Palps into power. I think she's more interesting weepy and preggers too, maybe just because it forces Nat to DO SOMETHING FOR F**KS SAKE! We saw how important he thought both she and Mon were when he chopped both of them considerably (Ms. Mothma completely!) out of RotS. And I quite agree on the female Jedi front as well; I can onyl hope, with the new tv series featuring lesser canon characters between the times of the PT and OT that maybe one of them what didn't get to be Clone fodder becomes a star (neither Barriss nor Luminara, my two faves, got mowed down on screen).
Sometimes I think that Leia in large part kicks as much ass as she does with extensive help from Carrie's take no prisoners performance and Kersh's ESB direction (for which I am eternally grateful to him for changing the Bespin 'You should dress like a girl more often' scene. Ew.).
As for the EU, well, that's just hopeless but that's not Lucas' fault; it's basically been confirmed time and again he has no clue what's going on in the books which is probably just as well 'cause the more continuity mistakes they make, the easier it is to dismiss it. Mara started strongly but became a SHREW (with Luke knuckling under and offering to join the Empire just 'cuase she missed, y'know, being able to kill people for no reason and having so much power) and Jaina, blech. The others are barely worth mentioning (except Shada. Shada rules and is so underused it makes my head fall off!) though I must say, prequel-era EU is definitely where it's at, if one is reading. Shatterpoint: Best EU ever.
And I can't help but feel that a lot of the OT EU female characterization is mostly done to put Leia down (Han had another love of his life, Leia was rebound girl; Jaina constantly puts her mother down; Mara is soo much more powerful and wise than any Jedi, including the males like Yoda or Ben). Just hopeless, I tells ya! :-/
Peace, Ghani