Calling It The 'Dark Side' Of The Force Is Really Terrible Marketing
Over the last couple of weeks I re-watched the Star Wars prequel trilogy in its entirety. I still maintain the best movie of these three is Attack of the Clones, the film in the series most people like the least. This is not a contrarian point of view on my part. I just maintain that this is a movie with no real plot and, of the three, realizes it doesn't have much to say and just kind of owns being kind of trash. As opposed to the other two movies that don't seem to realize this. Plus, Attack of the Clones has four legitimately great action scenes that, if projected onto a wall at a party, would dazzle all of the attendees.
Anyway, this time, I did notice something new in Revenge of the Sith that bothered me. It all starts with the scene in which Anakin joins Palpatine at some sort of live rendition of a few watery orbs floating around. The watery orbs do not bother me. I am not here to judge what people do with their spare time in the name of entertainment on the planet of Coruscant.
It's during this conversation Palpatine starts to get Anakin at least a little dark side curious. Anakin mentions the Jedi use their power for good. Palpatine says "good" is a point of few. This is a good start on Palpatine's part. Anakin, while condemning the Sith, says, "they rely on passion for their strength." I have to admit, that doesn't sound too bad! Yes, the next part about only caring about themselves isn't great, but using passion for strength? Yeah, sign me up. If writing this newsletter could give me supernatural powers, yes, that sounds pretty ideal, actually.
