Post by Fritz on Apr 14, 2005 22:14:18 GMT -4
Oh, yeah, I'm looking forward to this...
You gotta understand, I was born in 1971. I was six when Episode 4 came out and twelve when Episode 6 came out. I AM the Star Wars generation...
Just yesterday I bought Dark Horse's comic adaptation of Revenge of the Sith. If you don't want to know what more or less happens in the movie quit reading now[/u] (I say "more or less" because stuff is always different...)
Ready?
The story opens about three years after Episode 2. General Grievous, military leader of the Seperatist movement (he appeared in the Clone Wars cartoons that ran on Cartoon Network), has kidnapped Supreme Chancellor Palaptine, and Obi-Wan and Anakin fly in to rescue him. They infiltrate the Seperatist flagship, and confront the Seperatist leader, Count Dooku (aka Darth Tyrannus).
Obi-Wan gets knocked out by Dooku, but Anakin owns him. With some prompting from the Chancellor, Anakin kills Dooku. Grievous, however, escapes, and Anakin must guide the damaged flagship to a landing they're able to walk away from.
Anakin visits Padme, and she tells him she's pregnant.
On planet Utapau, Grievous and the other leaders of the Seperatist movement contact their real leader, the Sith Lord Darth Sidius. The Dark Lord tells them to move the Seperatist leaders (including Nute Gunray) to the Outer Rim planet of Mustafar. Sidius regrets the loss of Dooku, but he tells them it was necessary--he has a new, younger, more powerful apprentice in mind...
Anakin has a prophetic nightmare, like the one he had in the last movie about his mother--it fortells that Padme will die in childbirth. She tries to comfort him, but he's clearly shaken.
The Jedi Council is becoming concerned about the amount of power the Supreme Chancellor is wielding; Palpatine, meanwhile, orders Anakin instated in the Jedi Council as his personal envoy. The Council relents in that, but refuses to give Anakin the rank of Jedi Master, which strains his relationship with them further.
Padme, Mon Mothma, and Bail Organa confer about the Chancellor's power grabs as well. Organa and Mothma hint that they're starting to build an organization that will fight the leadership of the Chancellor if necessary. Padme is conflicted--Palpatine served her as a Senator from Naboo (Episode 1) after all.
Kenobi is sent to the Outer Rim to hunt for Greivous; Yoda goes to Kashykk to lead the Wookie armies against the Seperatists.
Palpatine talks with Anakin, and mentions he'd heard of a power perfected by Sith Lord Darth Plagueis--one that could basically, if I understand it, resurrect the dead. Anakin, the memory of the nightmare, is intrigued, but still wary...
Obi-Wan finds Grievous on Utapau, and they have a big battle. In the end, Obi-Wan wins and Grievous is destroyed.
Palpatine admits to Anakin that he is a Sith Lord--Anakin is initially shocked, and ready to battle the Chancellor, but Palpatine plays on his insecurities and feelings of superiority to the Jedi Council. Anakin neverthless leaves to tell the Jedi what he has learned...
News of Grievous's destruction reaches Corscant. Mace knows it's the critical moment--to see if Palpatine gives up his "emergency" powers now that the emergency has passed. Anakin tells Mace that he's learned that Palpatine is the Sith Lord. Mace tells him to wait as he and other Jedi confront Palpatine--he senses Anakin's conflict.
Mace orders Palpatine arrested; Palpatine whips out a red-bladed lightsaber and kills Mace's contigent, and duels with Mace himself. Anakin shows up...Mace reminds Anakin of his Jedi oath...Palpatine spins that the Jedi are traitors, and reminds him of his promise of power...
Mace knocks Palpatine down.
Anakin makes his decision.
Anakin attacks Windu, slicing his right hand off, and Palpatine finishes Mace off by shoving him out the window with the Force. Palpatine officially inducts Anakin into the Sith, and christens him with a Sith name...
Darth Vader.
The Chancellor activates Special Order 66--the Clone Troopers turn on the Jedi all over the galaxy and slaughter them by weight of sheer numbers. On Utapau, Obi-Wan manages to escape the Clone Troopers; Yoda does as well with the help of the Wookies, including one named Chewbacca (!)
Bail Organa tries to land at the Jedi Temple where the slaughter is in progress--even the younglings are being murdered. The Clone Troopers let him go because he isn't a Jedi. Organa leaves Corscant in a spaceship that might be the Tantive IV and meets up with Yoda and Obi-Wan.
Vader goes to Mustafar, and under Sidius's--Palpatine's--orders slaughters the Seperatist leaders.
Palpatine finalizes his control over the Senate--the Republic is officially transformed into the Empire, and Palpatine named it's Emperor. (This also, by the way, features the only appearance of Jar Jar in the comic--he's seen in one panel as the Senate meets)
Yoda and Obi-Wan sneak into the Jedi Temple, and their worse fears are confirmed by the holographic records there: Anakin was behind the slaughter. Obi-Wan contacts Padme, and they journey to Mustafar to confront Anakin while Yoda goes to confront Sidius.
Yoda and Sidius battle in the now empty Senate chamber; in the end, Yoda loses, but manages to escape.
Obi-Wan and Padme confront Vader...Anakin rails that Kenobi has turned her against him, and uses the Force to throw her into a wall. The battle we've all been anticipating begins as Kenobi and Vader begin a ferocious light saber duel.
Obi-Wan defeats Vader, cutting off his left hand in the process. He takes his light saber, and leaves Anakin to die in the lava bubbling around. "You were the Chosen One...you were supposed to destroy the Sith, not join them. You were my brother, Anakin, and I love you...but I won't help you."
Shortly after, the Emperor arrives, and finds the heavily wounded Vader. He orders the Clone Troopers to put him in a med capsule...
In the asteroid base of Polis Massa, Yoda reveals to Obi-Wan he's been communing with the spirit of Qui-Gon Jinn, who has taught him how to become one with the Force after death. He will teach Obi-Wan this power as well.
Padme gives birth, (apparently) first to a boy, then a girl. Anakin's prophesy is sadly fulfilled, as she dies shortly after, her last words being to tell Obi-Wan she still senses good in her fallen husband...
Emperor Palpatine is informed that the "construction" is complete. The man once known as Anakin Skywalker is alive, but now encased in black armor. Darth Vader asks about his wife, and Sidius tells him she's dead--he lies and tells him that in his rage his attack had killed her.
Bail Organa offers to take Padme's daughter--Leia--to raise as his own on Alderaan. The boy--Luke--will be given to Anakin's step-brother Owen Lars on Tatooine, and be raised there under Kenobi's watchful (if somewhat by afar) eye.
And thus, as Vader puts it in Episode 4, "The Circle is now complete..."
You gotta understand, I was born in 1971. I was six when Episode 4 came out and twelve when Episode 6 came out. I AM the Star Wars generation...
Just yesterday I bought Dark Horse's comic adaptation of Revenge of the Sith. If you don't want to know what more or less happens in the movie quit reading now[/u] (I say "more or less" because stuff is always different...)
Ready?
The story opens about three years after Episode 2. General Grievous, military leader of the Seperatist movement (he appeared in the Clone Wars cartoons that ran on Cartoon Network), has kidnapped Supreme Chancellor Palaptine, and Obi-Wan and Anakin fly in to rescue him. They infiltrate the Seperatist flagship, and confront the Seperatist leader, Count Dooku (aka Darth Tyrannus).
Obi-Wan gets knocked out by Dooku, but Anakin owns him. With some prompting from the Chancellor, Anakin kills Dooku. Grievous, however, escapes, and Anakin must guide the damaged flagship to a landing they're able to walk away from.
Anakin visits Padme, and she tells him she's pregnant.
On planet Utapau, Grievous and the other leaders of the Seperatist movement contact their real leader, the Sith Lord Darth Sidius. The Dark Lord tells them to move the Seperatist leaders (including Nute Gunray) to the Outer Rim planet of Mustafar. Sidius regrets the loss of Dooku, but he tells them it was necessary--he has a new, younger, more powerful apprentice in mind...
Anakin has a prophetic nightmare, like the one he had in the last movie about his mother--it fortells that Padme will die in childbirth. She tries to comfort him, but he's clearly shaken.
The Jedi Council is becoming concerned about the amount of power the Supreme Chancellor is wielding; Palpatine, meanwhile, orders Anakin instated in the Jedi Council as his personal envoy. The Council relents in that, but refuses to give Anakin the rank of Jedi Master, which strains his relationship with them further.
Padme, Mon Mothma, and Bail Organa confer about the Chancellor's power grabs as well. Organa and Mothma hint that they're starting to build an organization that will fight the leadership of the Chancellor if necessary. Padme is conflicted--Palpatine served her as a Senator from Naboo (Episode 1) after all.
Kenobi is sent to the Outer Rim to hunt for Greivous; Yoda goes to Kashykk to lead the Wookie armies against the Seperatists.
Palpatine talks with Anakin, and mentions he'd heard of a power perfected by Sith Lord Darth Plagueis--one that could basically, if I understand it, resurrect the dead. Anakin, the memory of the nightmare, is intrigued, but still wary...
Obi-Wan finds Grievous on Utapau, and they have a big battle. In the end, Obi-Wan wins and Grievous is destroyed.
Palpatine admits to Anakin that he is a Sith Lord--Anakin is initially shocked, and ready to battle the Chancellor, but Palpatine plays on his insecurities and feelings of superiority to the Jedi Council. Anakin neverthless leaves to tell the Jedi what he has learned...
News of Grievous's destruction reaches Corscant. Mace knows it's the critical moment--to see if Palpatine gives up his "emergency" powers now that the emergency has passed. Anakin tells Mace that he's learned that Palpatine is the Sith Lord. Mace tells him to wait as he and other Jedi confront Palpatine--he senses Anakin's conflict.
Mace orders Palpatine arrested; Palpatine whips out a red-bladed lightsaber and kills Mace's contigent, and duels with Mace himself. Anakin shows up...Mace reminds Anakin of his Jedi oath...Palpatine spins that the Jedi are traitors, and reminds him of his promise of power...
Mace knocks Palpatine down.
Anakin makes his decision.
Anakin attacks Windu, slicing his right hand off, and Palpatine finishes Mace off by shoving him out the window with the Force. Palpatine officially inducts Anakin into the Sith, and christens him with a Sith name...
Darth Vader.
The Chancellor activates Special Order 66--the Clone Troopers turn on the Jedi all over the galaxy and slaughter them by weight of sheer numbers. On Utapau, Obi-Wan manages to escape the Clone Troopers; Yoda does as well with the help of the Wookies, including one named Chewbacca (!)
Bail Organa tries to land at the Jedi Temple where the slaughter is in progress--even the younglings are being murdered. The Clone Troopers let him go because he isn't a Jedi. Organa leaves Corscant in a spaceship that might be the Tantive IV and meets up with Yoda and Obi-Wan.
Vader goes to Mustafar, and under Sidius's--Palpatine's--orders slaughters the Seperatist leaders.
Palpatine finalizes his control over the Senate--the Republic is officially transformed into the Empire, and Palpatine named it's Emperor. (This also, by the way, features the only appearance of Jar Jar in the comic--he's seen in one panel as the Senate meets)
Yoda and Obi-Wan sneak into the Jedi Temple, and their worse fears are confirmed by the holographic records there: Anakin was behind the slaughter. Obi-Wan contacts Padme, and they journey to Mustafar to confront Anakin while Yoda goes to confront Sidius.
Yoda and Sidius battle in the now empty Senate chamber; in the end, Yoda loses, but manages to escape.
Obi-Wan and Padme confront Vader...Anakin rails that Kenobi has turned her against him, and uses the Force to throw her into a wall. The battle we've all been anticipating begins as Kenobi and Vader begin a ferocious light saber duel.
Obi-Wan defeats Vader, cutting off his left hand in the process. He takes his light saber, and leaves Anakin to die in the lava bubbling around. "You were the Chosen One...you were supposed to destroy the Sith, not join them. You were my brother, Anakin, and I love you...but I won't help you."
Shortly after, the Emperor arrives, and finds the heavily wounded Vader. He orders the Clone Troopers to put him in a med capsule...
In the asteroid base of Polis Massa, Yoda reveals to Obi-Wan he's been communing with the spirit of Qui-Gon Jinn, who has taught him how to become one with the Force after death. He will teach Obi-Wan this power as well.
Padme gives birth, (apparently) first to a boy, then a girl. Anakin's prophesy is sadly fulfilled, as she dies shortly after, her last words being to tell Obi-Wan she still senses good in her fallen husband...
Emperor Palpatine is informed that the "construction" is complete. The man once known as Anakin Skywalker is alive, but now encased in black armor. Darth Vader asks about his wife, and Sidius tells him she's dead--he lies and tells him that in his rage his attack had killed her.
Bail Organa offers to take Padme's daughter--Leia--to raise as his own on Alderaan. The boy--Luke--will be given to Anakin's step-brother Owen Lars on Tatooine, and be raised there under Kenobi's watchful (if somewhat by afar) eye.
And thus, as Vader puts it in Episode 4, "The Circle is now complete..."