Quote Originally Posted by Russ80
I agree with Ishin in that they certainly didn't explain things in the movie very well. Why would I want to go hunt down some novellas about a video game so that I can understand a movie sequel? If I wanted to do that, I'd buy some of that horrendous myriad of star wars books. Should I have to read "Rogue Squadron" to understand Revenge of the Sith? (Now yes, those aren't the same timeline, but that's certainly a famous one of the SW universe books, and if you like go find ones that are set before the trilogy)

Anyway, carry on....
You know, the delicious irony of that post is that I didnt even READ your post before posting what I said about my being a fan of the star wars novels, yet still thought the first two star wars prequels sucked despite how much knowing the background of the events during this time period, as was discussed in the comics and novels (such as the evolution of lightsabres, and how the double bladed lightsabre came to be) made them better stories. the first two prequels still sucked regardless, and having to have read a few novels just to understand the films better only validated the poor storytelling in the films, in the exact same way that including much NEEDED plot and character development in a few novella's rather then putting it in the film just shows that square wasnt even trying to make a solid story out of this film, rather they just focused on production values and shallow fan service alone.

Ahem, and incidently, rouge squadran is just about one of the coolest SW novels out there. use it to wash the bad taste of jar jar out of your mouth.

We now return you to your advent children discussion, any more star wars discussion, can we please keep it to pm? This was just pure fluke and I dont want to derail the topic.