Bubbles, forever blowing

Rating: 3/10 (25 May 2005)

I would just like to point one thing out to all the apologists who are salivating all over this movie (the worst of the 6, in my opinion) -- there is a scene at the concert hall where Palpatine and Skywalker muse over the nature of the Dark Side while watching what appears to be a giant bubble. If anyone can explain this without sounding like an idiot, I will change my tune. This really changes the nature of the entire Star Wars sextet: when Lucas spliced in digitized shots of cheering crowds in the new edition of "Return of the Jedi", we now know that they were cheering not the demise of the Empire but a return of the bubble shows that were a hallmark of the Republic. Add to this the fact that the entire new trilogy seems to be built on the notion that Queen Padme is the freaknastiest lady in the entire galaxy -- to wit, she is the "elected Queen" of a planet populated by Rastafarian rabbit-men so annoying they are forced to live underwater; she takes a 6 year-old boy from his mother and ends up bedding him, even after (or because?) he is fitted with a robot hand; and she wills herself to die after giving birth to TWINS because the father, who just destroyed her beloved Republic, and attempted to kill her and all her friends, did not show up for the delivery. Yes, that Padme is one sick spacefreak.