why did obiwan and anakin wait so long

[rodeo]

in the phantom menace obiwan frees anakin from slavery, but didn't have enough money to free his mom.

so anakin waits 10 years to bother going back to his home planet, and finds his mom dead.

when he was freed in the first place why didn't they just fly to wherever and get a few bucks and go back and get his mom?

i mean, they had a queen with them. she is rich. i'm sure she wouldn't have minded if they flew to naboo to get 200 bucks to free the kid's mom instead of waiting a full decade to bother thinking about her again.

i'm rewatching the prequels for the first time since they first come out, and god damn i forgot how much they suck.

[Sultan33g]

"Attachments lead to jealousy. The shadow of greed that is". He doesnt look for her because he is now a jedi. Jedi's have a strict code and until he started seeing really bad dreams he didnt do anything about it because it was forbidden and thats what his mom would want. The only reason he went to tattooine was because he wasnt supervised by the jedi at the time.

[Darth Biscuit]

Rodeo, this is called "George Lucas sucks as a screen writer"...

You can't over-analyze the plot in the movies too much, too many holes.

I don't disagree with Sultan's theory, but in reality, wouldn't it make more sense to remove that temptation from Anakin since Yoda said his future was "clouded" anyway... yeah, Lucas could have tightened up a lot of stuff in the stories.

[Delhomeboy]

Because the prequels are terrible; save for Ewan Macgregor and Ian McDiarmid.

[cookinwithgas]

Turns out the mom was really into the whole slave thing as well as flying blue skinned fatties

[Sultan33g]

revenge of the sith was good

[Darth Biscuit]

revenge of the sith was good

Meh... it was certainly the best of the three prequels, but good, I don't know. It wasn't good compared to the original trilogy. The acting and dialogue is so incredibly bad in all the prequels that it's really hard to get past for me. But I love the story so I deal with it.

[Sultan33g]

Meh... it was certainly the best of the three prequels, but good, I don't know. It wasn't good compared to the original trilogy. The acting and dialogue is so incredibly bad in all the prequels that it's really hard to get past for me. But I love the story so I deal with it.

i dont like u anymore

[Darth Biscuit]

i dont like u anymore

Why because I critiqued your boy Lucas? I'm as big of a Star Wars fan as anyone, but I think he did a disservice to us with those 3 prequel films. As much as I enjoy the whole Star Wars Universe, and even with the incredible FX and all, I was disappointed... sorry.

[Sultan33g]

Why because I critiqued your boy Lucas? I'm as big of a Star Wars fan as anyone, but I think he did a disservice to us with those 3 prequel films. As much as I enjoy the whole Star Wars Universe, and even with the incredible FX and all, I was disappointed... sorry.

lol hes not my boy....i just liked revenge of the sith

[Scrumtrilescent]

ROTS was better than ROTJ.

And for the OP, it's that old copout, deus ex machina.

[Darth Biscuit]

lol hes not my boy....i just liked revenge of the sith

It would have been much better if there was more Vader and he was more badass at the end. I wanted to see him kill something as Vader in the suit.

Have you read 'Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader' ?

Excellent book.

[Scrumtrilescent]

That was sorta the point and one of the things about the prequels I actually liked. The fact that Vader wasn't some big bad ass, but a pathetic shell of what could have been makes it even sadder and poignant when you see him in ANH.

[Darth Biscuit]

ROTS was better than ROTJ.

Really? I don't agree...

In order to me.

#1 5:ESB

#2 6:ROTJ

#3 3:ROTS

#3 4:ANH

#4 2:AOTC

#5 1: TPM