> 1) Samuel L. Jackson is truly the one person in the entire universe who could get away with having a lightsabre that colour.

Although on the posters, Count Dooku has a purple lightsaber and Mace Windu has a blue one. Funny, that.

Also the toy lightsaber for Mace Windu (which is one of the new light plastic ones and is therefore poor in comparison to the sturdy dark side effort) is lilac. Bit girly for a badass Jedi master, isn't it?


> 2) Jango Fett and Boba Fett are New Zealanders and they look like New Zealanders and they sound like New Zealanders. I can't begin to tell you how much that rules.

I soooo knew you were going to post something like this, BG. Or that you were going to be offline for a while because the image of a whole army of Temuera Morrison had weakened your knees such that you couldn't make it to the keyboard.
But he does rule as Jango - for a man of very few words he manages to make every one sound threatening.

> 3) Yoda kicks butt.

Yoda, I believe is also a master of extracting the urine. High points include him ripping it out of Obi Wan over the "disappearance" of the planet Kamino, his little kung fu pose whilst fighting Dooku, and the way he picks up the walking stick at the end, gives a little sigh, and then starts shuffling forward as if he hasn't just been doing butterfly twists and somersaults.

Other points I'd like to add:

4) The opening shot of Padme's silver ship over Coruscant rules - although I *was* looking for the Flash Gordon "sparkler out the back end" rocket and the wire holding it up as it flew...Mmmmm, 30's serial chic certainly hits the spot.

5) Christopher Lee. To paraphrase a reviewer in the guardian (which, for once, I totally agree with on this), it's nice to see someone in the film who can act, and is old enough to shave.

One thing that gets me, though, is the increasing complexity of lightsaber fights - I *know* it looks great to spin the thing round three times before trying to hit your opponent, but I think that they're losing a lot of the spirit of the fight. If you watch the fighting in Return of the Jedi, you can actually see the struggle between light and dark in Luke as his fighting style changes throughout the battle. And even though its very simple, direct work(although sometimes a bit inefficient with all the slashing), it's very moving and is still one of my all-time favourite fight scenes.

Bourne