Another week, another list of stuff I've been watching/reading/listening to etc. *sigh*

You know, the most popular search that ends up here is to do with The Phantom Menace. Which is weird, because there must be loads of sites that mention TPM. Although, clearly not that many that mention Spaced and Peter Serafinowicz as well. Having said that, I think only one person searched for Peter Serafinowicz. Every time I have to type it I have to look it up - it's too hard to spell. Heh. Most people search for Duane Benzie, instead. I mean, they search for "Duane Benzie Phantom Menace", which is weird since he was Duane Benzie in Spaced and Darth Maul's voice in The Phantom Menace.

As I'm mentioning Spaced, I'd like to point out that if you go to that site, I've provided them with one of their news items. It's one of the 15th June ones. I'm not going to tell you which. I'm not sure why, I just don't want to. It'll add some excitement to your life trying to find it. :-p

Anyway, I mention The Phantom Menace not because I want to impart any more info about it, but because I went to see Attack of the Clones this week. I can't wait to see what a third series of Spaced will say about it. It was definitely much much better than TPM. Not that that is hard! I was just... so disappointed after TPM. I thought George Lucas had lost it. I felt like Tim in Spaced. He burnt all his original Star Wars stuff. He lost his job because he shouted at a kid who liked Jar Jar.

I reckon there are two ways you'll approach the new films, if you're a fan. You're either going to love them just because they're adding to the story, or (like Tim) you're going to hate them because you've had such high expectations. Having loved Episodes IV, V and VI, I think it would be hard to make anything that was better. Those films have gone down in cinema history, after all. I thought maybe the problem with TPM was that it was just impossible to live up to the other films. I thought that might be the same with all the prequels. But AOTC has proved that they needn't be rubbish, even if they're not going to be groundbreaking...

Why did TPM spend so long telling stories that didn't matter? There wasn't really much of a plot. It was too... silly. With pod racing and... Jar Jar. Heh. Jake Lloyd annoyed me, though I'm prepared to give him another chance, now that I know he was in The Pretender! (Sad, eh?) But in AOTC George Lucas started telling the real story. We had to have seen the events in TPM, or at least some of the events, but I think it could have been organised differently. I really can't see how everything's going to be fitted into one more film! Hmm.

I've run out of time. I have to sleep. Maybe I'll talk more about this in the future.

Something to look forward to, eh? :-)

posted by Fiery Fred @ 11:05 PM