Last night my father took me to watch Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith as he has every other Star Wars movie starting with the Special Editions.

I feel I was too spoiled to enjoy it fully. I came out thinking about all that I thought was going to be in the film and was missing instead of thinking about all that had been put into it.

Some examples include Mon Mothma and the Delegation of the Two Thousand, an explaination of the relationship between Dooku and Syfo-Dias, Yoda landing on Dagobah, The shot featured in the trailer of the Theta shuttle coming out of Hyperspace with a V-Wing escort, Liam Neeson's cameo and so on.

I look forward to seeing some of that on the DVD release, especially something with Mon Mothma and Yoda on Dagobah.

Anyway, now that all that is off of my chest I'll say that the movie did an excellent job in tying up all the loose ends I can think of. There was only one thing that didn't make sense to me having left the cinema, but after a bit of thought I've discovered that it does indeed work better this way.

It has always bothered me that Anakin never faded when he died. I always assumed it would be better if his head faded from the armour and Luke burned the armour. Now I feel it's better that they don't make this so, and perhaps it was George's plan all along, because Qui-Gon never faded but achieved 'immortality' as Yoda puts it in Ep III, because he hadn't trained himself to become a spirit straight away. Nor had Anakin. Obi-Wan and Yoda had, however, trained themselves and faded into the ether to immediatly become spirits (demonstrated by Obi-Wan telling Luke to run straight after his death).

It is my assumption that after Anakin's death he was pulled back from nothing by Obi-wan and Yoda, and it was explained to him how to become a spirit. Notice he only appears after his mortal body is crimated, just as Qui-Gon's was. I also assume crimation is integral to the process as the mortal body must be destroyed or brought with you.

That is my best explaination as to how the Force-ghost process works. It's all there in the movies and just takes a little pieceing together to see.

Quick point on 'Why use Hayden in RotJ?' Last time we saw the Hayden version of Anakin was 22 years ago, so here he's 45. I'd say Hayden could get away with looking older, just as Ewan did as a 38 year old Obi-Wan when he was 20-something? I don't know his age, but I know that the 60-something year old Anakin was definatly too-old-a-look for a 45 year old. Better he look slightly young for a 45 year old than really old in my opinion.

The only other 'loose end' I can think people will have a problem with would be the Sifo-Dyas issue, but this isn't really a loose end. It was always stated that Sifo-Dyas made the Grand Army and fans only read into it too much.

Actually, I just remembered Labrynth of Evil tells of how everything falls into place, though I'm not sure it's entirely accurate. I think it was always obvious Dooku deleted the files from the archieves. Also, when the clone army was ordered (by Dooku), he couldn't use his name as he was no longer a Jedi, and couldn't use Tyranus to order the Clones either. He needed a Jedi name but one who was dead so no one could ask questions. The reason he needed a Jedi was so that later the Jedi could pick up the clone army no-questions-asked.

And so all the loose ends are tied up properly, in my opinion. You may want to read into more but I like read into things as little as it takes to get everything to make sense, but not make up ridiculous half-truths by looking at the expression on someone's face and then adding various bits of imagined nonsense of how I want the story to go and then making it definitive.

Often the simplest explaination is the most valid.

Overall I figure this movie is a 8 or 9 out of 10. Empire remains my favourite (having been switched from Jedi after I read the novelisation), and so for me this ranks in the better half of the Saga.

Hope this got you thinking.

A24