Originally Posted by
GhostPirate
There's a bit of irony to your missing the point of my post in your defense of GL.
I never said he had to kill all the Jedi single-handedly; but it would have been more interesting to actually give us some taste of him fighting, and defeating, adult masters rather than slaughtering a few kids. A no, a few brief shots on a holo wouldn't have been enough, I'm just someone who prefers my filmmakers to show rather than tell... or worse, tease a much better story/scene that they only provide glimpses or Easter Eggs of.
And no, I haven't re-watched the prequels in a while. Life is short, why waste it poring over awful movies?
Regardless, the whole concept and execution of 'order 66' just came off as lazy and uninspired. These supposed masters were, uniformly, unable to recognize something was wrong (which, by the way, is ANOTHER problem- how much the Jedi and the Force are built up, only to get taken down by a bad, overwrought montage, and why was Yoda seemingly the only one to feel it happening?) and get taken out, in every case, by a bare handful of clone troopers.
In addition, there's something about murdering a bunch of helpless children which itself kills any real emotion of the so-called "redemption arc" that ended some 20+ years earlier in RotJ.
As far as Yoda v Emperor you missed the point... Yoda completely quit, and then went into seclusion for the next 20 years. It had to happen because of where he was in the OT timeline, but it didn't feel entirely in character, and came off as more than a bit forced.
I do get it though, what feels like the worst in paint-by-number storytelling to get all these characters into the positions they're in by the original Star Wars to me comes off somehow as visionary storytelling to others.