Something that really bugged me was Amidala's death. She just "loses her will to live". In Return Of The Jedi, Luke asks Leia if she remembers their mother. Leia says that their mother was often somehow sad. Now how does Leia remember Amidala being OFTEN sad if she dies immediately after childbirth?! Bad job, George Lucas! (of course Amidala would have been sad if she had her husband turned to the dark side and betray the republic!)
How can't he make movies that link together? I think it would have been a better way to make the ending if Amidala would have lived sometime with his children in some sort of a hideout and then handed the children for adoption as the risk of exposion had been too great.
What do you think of this?

Fun to think about huh...

1) Why did Obi Wan get so old between episodes III and IV? I think only 20 or so years pass and aren't Jedi long-lived?

2) Also, how can he not remember C3PO and R2D2? Remember, "I don't reacall owning a droid" from Tatooine? Maybe he didn't own them, but he sure couldn't forget them!

3) At some point in the original trilogy, Kenobi tells Luke that he thought he could train Anakin as well as Yoda but he couldn't and this is what helped to turn him to the dark side. Well there is never any conflict in the new trilogy about who is to teach Anakin. There is nothing Obi Wan 'screws-up' that makes Anakin go bad. In fact the counsel decides Obi Wan should teach Anakin - Yoda included. (Boy those Jedi make some bad decisions along the way!)

Two thoughts; one, Lucas completely botched it and forgot that line. Perhaps when LucasFilm re-releases the set of movies (again) that line will be edited out. Two, perhaps it was intentional. Bail Organa and his wife had been trying to have children for sometime, unsucessfully. The novel cites this better than the screenplay. He jumped at the chance to raise Leia Skywalker - as they had always wanted a little girl. Organa's wife had been sad for a long time. Perhaps the memory Leia recalls isn't really her birth mother at all - she was deceived like everyone else to protect the twins. Perhaps shortly after the Organa's adopted Leia, events got bad and Bail Organa's wife dies.

Another twist - we didn't see the ultimate end of Master Mace Windu. Perhaps it is another loophole Lucas left himself in case he changes his mind to do another trilogy.

One more twist - the novel didn't touch on this in Chapter Twelve: Not From A Jedi as well as the screenplay did - but Darth Plagueis the Wise was Darth Sidious/Palpatine's master. Darth Plagueis had learned to turn his Force Sight so deep into himself that he found a way to influence the midi-chlorians themselves - not only to prevent death, but also to create life. Palpatine/Darth Sidious relates this story to entice Anakin Skywalker - but also tells him the truth - that Darth Plagueis' Apprentice was told the secret to safeguard the power and his Apprentice turned and killed him in his sleep. On screen, Palpatine/Darth Sidious tells Anakin that he indeed killed his master after learning the secret.

Going past the enticement to get Anakin to turn to the Dark Side in order to use this power to safe Padme - consider a deeper meaning...

Perhaps Darth Sidious - the most cunning and dangerous Sith Lord of them all - is Anakin Skywalkers' father. Perhaps Darth Sidious used this ability learned from his master to influence midi-chlorians in Anakin's mother to create life - Anakin. Perhaps Darth Sidious knew that the prophesy was true and a midi-chlorian produced being would be the ultimate force-wielder in the Galaxy - one that he could bend to his will.

maybe Sideous created Anakin

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Hey, wouldn't it have been nice to see the Millenium Falcon in a brief cameo in the last film? Maybe being built or something?

Steve

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i suggest you pay more attention my young padawan... the millennium falcon is in episode 3 !!!! but only for about 2 seconds !

when obi-wan and anakin return from the opening battle in space and land at the space port youalso get too see a rather new looking falcon landing there also... it's in the bottom right of the screen !

the reason for this is that lucas had planned for a very young han solo being in the film as a boy working at the space port but in the end it was deleted

hope this helps

I think my favorite part of the movie was the very end and how it tied into part IV. Could this be a future TV show?