I dreamed I saw soldiers...they were all dressed in white

COS THEY WERE STORMTROOPERS!!!

The Empire...Fuck yeah!
Is it accurate to call the clones "stormtroopers" yet? I never really liked the term, anyway, as it is evocative of Nazism, and I've never found the Empire to have overtly racist sympathies. Not like the Jedi Council, which is so flagrantly diverse that one wonders whether Annakin was denied a seat for so long simply because he was a human white male. Everything thing else I enjoy has been slandered as racist, so why not Star Wars? Shut up, Jesse Jackson.

Anyway, a few other thoughts. First, Episode III is waaaaaaaay better than Episodes I and Deuce, and I actually like those movies. The opening space battle is effing incredible, and I only counted two instances of ludicrously awful dialogue. If you still haven't seen it, and don't want me to spoil one of the funniest parts, skip to the next paragraph here. Ok, in the opening, when the text that brings us up to speed on the story so far scrolls up? And it starts with "War!" Everyone in the theatre laughed.

The lightsaber parts are totally rad, and there's actually some brutal violence, too. Ewan McGregor is just awesome. He's the best part of all three films. (Although, I left the theater wondering why he gives up to Vader so easily in "A New Hope.") But the guy who plays the Emperor has a ball, and he's really fun to watch, too.

Nobody clapped or anything at the end, which is good, cos that's retarded, but they all got up and left pretty quickly. That seemed weird to me, as this is most likely the last time we'll see a Star Wars movie on the big screen in our lives. What's the hurry? But the loose ends tied up nicely, and it was cool to see a young Moff Tarkin make a cameo. What up Moff. If you look closely, you can also see the Millenium Falcon make a brief fly-by in one scene. What up Lando.

Obvs, people my age will not revere the prequels the way we did (do) the original films. I happen to think the comparison is flawed and the expectations too high, but whatevs. These movies were for this generations' kids, not us, and to finish telling a story that began over 30 years ago. If you're still nerding out about how much they suck, well, I hear Star Trek had a pretty good ending.