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Friday, June 03, 2005 |
| Star Wars Overview
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Well I guess most have seen the movie by now... I'm sure everyone already knows how it's going to be... If you've seen episodes I, II, IV, V and VI, there is no reason why your shouldn't watch this... after all it binds all the episodes together... I think the best actor in it is Ewan McGregor... He is soooooo hot with the beard!!! Hahaha... ;p In case you've been living in a galaxy far far away and do not seem to follow what is happening... Here's a short overview of the previous episodes...
Episode I - The Phantom Menace
This was when it all began, where Qui-Gon Jinn and his apprentice Obi-Wan Kenobi were called on to intervene in a trade dispute in Naboo, governed by Queen Amidala who was threatened by the corrupt Trade Federation, puppets of the Sith Lord and his apprentice Darth Maul. In the process the encounter a young boy of great talent, a prodigy, Anakin Skywalker. Qui-Gon dies in a lightsaber duel with Darth Maul but made Obi-Wan promise to train the young Skywalker. After saving the queen, Obi-Wan was made a Jedi and took Anakin as his apprentice at his master's dying wish.
Episode II - Attack Of The Clones
About a decade has passed and Anakin is now a teenage Jedi apprentice. Obi-Wan and Anakin are called upon to protect their old friend, Padme, the once Queen Amidala of Naboo who has stepped down from the throne but continues to serve in tthe senate. After an attempted assasination of Padme, Obi-Wan was sent in persue of a bounty hunter in another planet while the grown up but still impulsive Anakin is sent on his first mission alone to ascort Padme back to her home planet of Naboo for her protection. Obi-Wan soon finds out that there is a clone army being created over the past decade or so for the republic. Anakin on the other hand finds himself falling in love with Padme but Padme convinces him that they could never be together and that they should set aside their feelings. After Obi-Wan was captured and Anakin and Padme were captured as well in an attempt to rescue Obi-Wan, the Jedi came in full force with the help of the clone army to rescue them and defeat Count Dooku, the mastermind behind the attack on the republic. Anakin then finds himself in a showdown with Count Dooku who was Yoda's old apprentice, but was no match and had his hand cut off, the traditonal way of defeating an opponent in a lightsaber duel. But the day was saved by Yoda. Anakin and Padme are now husband and wife. However, it was only the beginning of the clone wars.
Episode III - Revenge Of The Sith
This episode, deemed the darkest, is the most crucial one. Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi are on a mission to save Chancellor Palpatine, captured by Count Dooku, who was in fact his sith apprentice (Yes if you don't know it by now, Chancellor Palpatine is the sith lord). Anakin finds himself duelling with Count Dooku again but this time Anakin triumphed, then with the chancellor urging him on, Anakin killed the count (It is actually against the Jedi code to kill if the opponent if defenceless, and since Count Dooku had both his hands chopped of he was pretty much helpless). As they headed for the ship, Anakin goes to save his master who was unconcious. The chancellor told him to leave Obi-Wan but Anakin refused. They make it back safe. Anakin is reunited with his wife, Padme and she annouces that she is pregnant. However, Anakin is less than thrilled as he is haunted by visions of Padme dying of child birth. Then Anakin is invited to join the Jedi Council but was not given the rank of master, only because the needed Anakin to report on Chancellor Palpatine's actions, who was a good friend of Anakin's, throwing him into a dilemma. Obi-Wan is later sent to battle General Grievous another of the sith lord's puppet. The chancellor reveals that he is the sith lord to Anakin and Anakin reports back to the Jedi council. They set off to arrest the chancellor but Anakin was not allowed to follow. However, Anakin is torn between capturing the sith lord or saving him because he was convinced that the sith lord could save Padme, whom Anakin was too afraid to lose. In the end, Anakin did what he had to to save Padme, he pledged himself to the sith lord becoming Darth Vader. Leading an army into the Jedi temple, Anakin kills all the Jedis including the little apprentices. Obi-Wan meets up with Yoda, the only two remaining Jedis. They find out what had happened. Yoda goes to face the sith lord while Obi-Wan goes to Padme to find out where Anakin has gone and in turn Padme learns of Anakin's fate. She refuses to give up Anakin's location but goes to confront him. When she does, she sees that Anakin has really changed and is heartbroken. Anakin becomes angry and begins to strangle her. Obi-Wan appears and they begin to battle. Yoda lost the battle with the sith lord and goes into exile. Meanwhile, in the master and apprentice duel, Obi-Wan defeats Anakin, and leaves him to die. However, Anakin does not die, saved by the sith lord, he is put into the black robotic suit that is forever associated with Darth Vader. As for Padme, she is brought to the hospital, medically she was fine but she was dying anyway, supposedly lost the will to live. But before she does, she gives birth to a set of twins, Luke and Leia Skywalker. To ensure the safety of the twins they were seperated, until it will be safe enough for them to be reunited.
Episode IV - A New Hope
Luke is now all grown up at the care of his aunt and uncle in Tatooine. Hew was never told of his mother, father nor the fact that he had a twin sister. Luke longs to joinThe Rebels in their quest to ri the galaxy of the evil Empire controlled by the emperor (sith lord) and his apprentice Darth Vader. One day, Luke returns from an outing to find that his aunt an uncle were murdered by the Empire's imperial stormtroopers and finds a message from the leader of The Rebels, Princess Leia, seeking assistance from a man called Obi-Wan Kenobi. So he sets out to find this man and does. Luke then learns that Obi-Wan knew his father and they set off to find the princess. On their journey they received help from Han Solo and his sidekick Chewbacca. They manage to find the princess but when they were escaping, Obi-Wan faces Darth Vader in a lightsaber duel and is killed. Luke then becomes what he had wanted for so long, a Rebel soldier. In the process, they destroy the Death Star.
Episode V - The Empire Stricks Back
With the Death Star destroyed, the evil Empire is now seeking out The Rebels and their location. In a battle in Hoth, Luke is seperated from Leia and Han Solo. Darth Vader goes after Han and Leia in a bid to lure Luke into a trap. Luke however finds himself stranded in a strange place where he meets the old Jedi Master Yoda who then teaches him the way of the Force. Like his father, he was talented in the ways of the Force but was also impatient and Yoda warns him of the threat of turning to the dark side. When Luke finds out that Darth Vader has Leia and Han in captive, he has no choice but to rescue them, no matter how dangerous. There he finds out the truth of his father, hence the famous "Luke, I am you father" phrase and Luke loses his hand to Darth Vader after he refused to join the dark side. But she still manages to escape with Han and Leia.
Episode VI - Return Of The Jedi
Because of some bad debts, Han Solo is captured by Jabba the Hut and Luke goes to save him with the help of Leia, Chewbacca, R2D2 and C3P0. Meanwhile, the Empire completes the construction of a better more powerful Death Star. After that Luke returns to complete his training to be a Jedi Knight with Master Yoda. As for Leia and Han, they lead The Rebels to break down the protection shield of the Death Star to enable their fighters to destory it. As Luke grows stronger, Yoda grows weaker. Before Yoda died he manages to give Luke all his wisdom and told him the whole truth about his father, that Leia is his sister and that he has to face Darth Vader as their last hope. So Luke goes to confront Darth Vader again. This time the emperor urges Luke to kill him in the journey to the dark side. But Luke keeps refusing and convinces Darth Vader that he still has some good in him. Angered by his refusal the emperor took matters to his own hands. When he seems Luke's life draining away, Darth Vader finally came to his senses and Anakin Skywalker emerges again. He sacrifices his own life to save his son Luke. As the Death Star crumbles to destruction, Luke brings his father along back to give his father a proper burial. In the end the Force is brought to balance just like it was foreseen. |
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WanTse @ 6/03/2005 04:02:00 pm
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