I've posted this a dozen times on this forum, but I'm posting it again.
THIS is how you do a believable fall to the dark side with characters that people actually care about:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw5vZjRfAno
In "Dr Horrible" I actually CARE about Billy Buddy, and I care about Penny.
THIS little mini-masterpiece chokes me up at the end.
The prequels... sorry, guys - I couldn't be moved to give a damn.
I wanted to jump through the screen and kill Little Orphan Annie myself.
And Padme?... Yah, she's nice to look at, but there's nothing there to fall in love with.
She's a one-night-stand at best. And IRL, unless she took an interest in me, I wouldn't want anything to do with her.
Plus, Annie is such an overt FREAKY PERVERT, and downright whiney SCUMBAG, I don't believe for a
MOMENT that a
QUEEN would have anything to do with him.
Apparently, in George Lucas's world, all you have to do is tell a girl you love her and she'll love you right back.
Does that guy even live on the same
planet as me?
And please don't tell me I "need to watch the Clone Wars cartoon", because I'm not going to.
I'm a grown-up with a job and better things to do than watch cartoons. (no offense, astro)
If a movie (3 movies!) needs 6 seasons of a frakking cartoon to start to make sense, then maybe the movie (3 movies!) weren't very good to start with.