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Another thing about TPM is that it was doomed before anyone ever saw it. The hype for this movie was unparalleled, the hype for TFA was nothing compared to it. In a time where your main source of movie information was Entertainment Tonight, Star Wars was every where, every news show, cover of every magazine, everywhere. It had no chance of living up to that hype, even if it had been the greatest movie every made, which it obviously wasn't.

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It really suggests a more interesting and interesting conflict between the Sith and the Jedi that the film simply doesn't explore.

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Brian Earl Spilner said:

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Also, interesting note, the word Sith was never said until Episode I.

And unless you read the EU beforehand, that was brand new information in that movie. (It was for me, though I was 11 and not a huge fanboy like I am now.)

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C@LAg said:

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the whole thing about only two sith was just dumb from the start.

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Brian Earl Spilner said:

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The EU technically started in 78 with Splinter of the Mind's Eye, but didn't realize the term was widely known before 99. My mistake. I wasn't much into Star Wars as a kid.

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Brian Earl Spilner said:

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Also, interesting note, the word Sith was never said until Episode I.

And unless you read the EU beforehand, that was brand new information in that movie. (It was for me, though I was 11 and not a huge fanboy like I am now.)

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Until the tragic Holy Rebellion of "06", the respected JEDI BENDU OF ASHLA were the most powerful warriors in the Universe. For a hundred thousand years, generations of Jedi Bendu knights learned the ways of the mysterious FORCE OF OTHERS, and acted as the guardians of peace and justice in the REPUBLIC. Now these legendary warriors are all but extinct. One by one they have been hunted down and destroyed by a ferocious rival sect of mercenary warriors: THE BLACK KNIGHTS OF THE SITH.

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Brian Earl Spilner said:

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You got me.

I still find it so odd that they released the novelization in 76, before the movie was even out.

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Urban Ag said:

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that is an interesting bit of trivia that the novelization was released a year before the movie. Had no idea.

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twilly said:

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Urban Ag said:

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that is an interesting bit of trivia that the novelization was released a year before the movie. Had no idea.

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Just like many people don't know that the novelization for The Empire Strikes Back came out a month before the movie did. To those of us who read it, we knew who Luke's father was before we ever got into the theater.

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Cinco Ranch Aggie said:

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That's a nice expansion of that scene but I think it proves one thing

James Earl Jones = Darth Vader

whoever was doing the voice over was nothing but a clown, I think

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redline248 said:

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..and I know a lot of people have a problem with the Rule of 2, but the way it was mostly laid out in the Darth Bane books (now, of course, not canon) makes a lot of sense.

However, the part that makes the least sense is that Yoda somehow knows about it. Alias man or someone might be able to give an update on current canon, but if the Sith were 'extinct' for 1000 years, and the Rule of 2 started with Bane when they were hidden...how does Yoda find out about?

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Presley OBannons Sword said:

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redline248 said:

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..and I know a lot of people have a problem with the Rule of 2, but the way it was mostly laid out in the Darth Bane books (now, of course, not canon) makes a lot of sense.

However, the part that makes the least sense is that Yoda somehow knows about it. Alias man or someone might be able to give an update on current canon, but if the Sith were 'extinct' for 1000 years, and the Rule of 2 started with Bane when they were hidden...how does Yoda find out about?

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honest question because I never got into the EU. were those books written before Episode 1, thereby making the rule of 2 thing make sense in context, or were they authors desperately trying to make the nonsense make sense retroactively?

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