Star Wars 3

Just got back from Star Wars and the post-movie discussion. Final verdict: uh, yeah. Better than the ones before doesn't mean good. What's so terribly frustrating is that at its core there is a good movie, maybe even a great one, buried under the agonizing acting and overdone special f/x (am I the only one who thought Yoda was more convincingly alive as a Muppet, for all his ping-pong-ball-of-doom CGI stunts?) and wretched script. A movie I'd want to see, enjoy watching, maybe even love as I do the originals.

Instead, I can only bitch. ( 5 ways Revenge of the Sith could have been a better movie. Spoilers. )

Ah well. What's done is done. As it stands, I'm leaving the new trilogy out of my personal Star Wars canon (it never matched with the original properly anyway). Maybe in a few decades, with Lucas gone, someone might try again, you never know. Meanwhile...there's always Han Solo to console me.

OP ch.367

Meanwhile, to make up for George Lucas, we have Oda Eichirou proving himself once again to be a genius, able to make you cry, laugh, and cheer wildly in the course of a dozen pages. I thought I might be getting out of One Piece. Nope.

( manga ch. 367: the Revenge of the Squee )

Thank you, Oda-sensei.