Friday, May 27, 2005

Pilot Episodes

Have you ever seen one of those pilot episodes of a hit American show and been surprised at how lifeless your favourite characters seemed in their first outing, as if the actors haven't quite discovered the élan vital of this person they are going to have to live with for the next ten seasons?

George Lucas' Revenge of the Sith is much more like a first episode than a last one. You sit watching Obi Wan, Padme and Anikin waiting for them to come alive, to be themselves, but they don't. It's like Joey in the pilot of Friends. You can practically see the wires.

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