[Claire]

We took the girls and saw it a second time yesterday in the largest auditorium and on the largest screen that I know about in Portland. It made a difference to me....you could tell by the comments people were making, that many had seen it already, too. People clapped at the Lucasfilm screen, clapped at the end, and there were two women near us bawling again. My SW geek kids had lightsaber battles with other little geeks again before the movie played....so much fun.

I agree with ubergeek....it was much better the second time around. I was prepared for Dukoo being killed off so early, Padme and Anakin's scenes (while still sucky) didn't make me want to puke, and I noticed a lot more.....dialogue (still bad) and plot points that had me going "huh?" last time.

Someone mentioned here or on another board that it didn't make sense for Obi Wan to choose that weird dragon thing as his stallion....but when I watched it again, it did make sense to me. He was hiding....he had them believing that he'd taken off in his ship, so he was trying to blend in (there were dragon things flying all over the place) and it worked.

We went straight home and watched A New Hope. OMG. I can't believe how much of that movie I think I've never understood, even though I've seen it probably fifty or more times and can recite most of it by heart. All the senate and republic gobbledygook never really sunk in before. Now I've got it.

After almost thirty years, I understand it now.