History Narm / STARWARS

** And then Obi-Wan absolutely insists, "Anakin, Chancellor Palpatine is EVIL!"

** "I can't watch any more." Delivered with Ewan McGregor's trademark phoned-in performance, attempting to rev up Alec Guiness's corpse to 300 rpm, some viewers were in hearty agreement with Obi-Wan at this point.

-->"I killed them like ''animals! I HATE THEM!!!!''"

*** It's also a YouFailLogicForever moment for her. Ice ''melts'' when confronted with fire or anything above freezing temperature.

--->[[CaptainObvious "I'm Luke Skywalker and I'm here to rescue you!"]]
*** It wasn't obvious to Leia, though. At first she thought he was a short, tongue-tied stormtrooper. Then she thought he was a short stormtrooper who took his helmet off for some reason. It was only after Luke told her that he was there to spring her, and that he was there with Ben, that she got moving.
** There's also his BigNo when Obi-Wan gets cut down which sounds more annoyed than angry.

* "Love cannot save you. Only my new powers can do that." Just the very matter-of-fact Anakin says it. He might as well have said "Santa Claus didn't give you those presents, I bought them all."

*** [[EasyModeMockery Fine, use the one everyone always uses]].
** Funny, you'd think that if anyone could pull off a BigNo, it would be [[VoiceOfDramatic James Earl Jones]]...
** That wasn't Mufasa. Just Hayden Christensen with a voice changer.

* From Episode IV on one of the Death Star attack runs "Allllllmost there" has forever labeled that guy as "constipated X-Wing guy" for me

* The [[http://www.youtube.com/user/StarWarsAudioDramas#g/a Star Wars Audio Dramas]], which are [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin audio dramas of the original trilogy]], are overall excellent. Pretty much every bit of the action has to be narrated by someone. To the writers' credit, they make most of it seem pretty natural - but there are definitely times when it seems forced. One prominent example is during the ESB one, while Luke wanders around Hoth after escaping the wampa.

** Zahn was probably going for something like RightHandCat, given that Thrawn strokes the ysalamiri's fur more than once.

*** Wait, so a whiny teenager acts like a whiny teenager? This is [[RealityIsUnrealistic realism]], baby!
*** That would be fine if Anakin wasn't meant to be twenty-three in this episode.

* Personal hated moment of the series: Anakin's ridiculous line uttered in the middle of the ''most important battle of his entire fucking life''.
-->"From my point of view, the Jedi are evil!"
** What? You're in the middle of a lightsaber duel with your former [[HeterosexualLifePartners heterosexual life partner]], and you break out that gem? WHO TALKS LIKE THAT? Why not just say, "It's time to end this!" Or "At last you know the truth." Or "Is it hot out here or is it just me?" ANY of those awful lines would be better than the vomitfest you just spewed, [[RiffTrax Anakin Skywanker]].
** It might not have been so bad if he hadn't delivered the line like he was arguing in a 1,000 level philosophy class.
** In all fairness, he says it in response to Obi-Wan yelling "Anakin, Chancellor Palpatine is evil!" Obi-Wan's response "Well, then you are truly lost!" which is said with a bit of smug disdain, isn't much better, proving debate skills probably isn't very high on the Jedi academic catalog.
** The problem with Anakin's line is he ''acknowledges that it's his own point of view''. Nobody who's angry, hateful, like Anakin is supposed to be would say that. They ''would'' speak in absolutes. If Anakin had answered, "The Jedi are evil!" that would've been a much better line. Instead, you have Obi Wan, Mr. "Only a Sith deals in absolutes" offering the "absolute" that Palpatine is Evil, and Anakin, who's supposed to be singlemindedly dark-sided, saying it's just his point of view. Just...''ugh''.
** That final scene should have been epic: Obi-Wan and Anakin dueling to the death, flaming lava shooting up all around them, [[SugarWiki/CrowningMusicOfAwesome Wagnerian brass fanfare]] blaring on the soundtrack... Then this stupid little toylike robot wanders onto the screen, delivers a series of whiny bleeps, and runs off.
** And then there's the infamous "patticake" moment in the fight where the two try to Force push each other but look like they need to desperately [[HoYay hold hands]].
* Many of Yoda's lines in the prequel trilogy are noticably less tolerable than his dialogue in the original films. This can be partly attributed to the fact that Yoda's voice was awkwardly changed to sound younger, and the rest is due to the fact that the new writers decided to just [[{{Flanderization}} mix up random words in most of Yoda's lines to make him seem in-character]]. Whereas the original Star Wars writer Lawrence Kasdan was fully conversant with how other languages address the reversal of noun and verbs in an actual system, the new writers did not. This results in some hilarious lines like:

-->"Around the survivors, a perimeter create!" (Attack of the Clones)
-->"Not if anything to say about it, I have!" (Revenge of the Sith)
-->"Hurry, careful timing we will need." (Revenge of the Sith)

*** That would be fine if Anakin wasn't meant to be about twenty-five in this episode.
*** He's twenty three, actually.

* The 2004 DVD release of the old trilogy gives us Darth Vader, who used to be known as the epitome of evil and just downright badass, with a pink lightsaber. [[HilarityEnsued Hilarity ensues.]] It's either that or you are totally angry at George Lucas for releasing unfinished, half-assed crap like that. Also kind of a WallBanger, since they had the time to add and change all sorts of stuff, but they didn't have the time to check if the color correction looked good or not.

* The image of Admiral Thrawn with a yslamiri on his shoulder kinda spoils his whole steely cold evil air. It's like how a pirate can't be taken seriously with a parrot perched on his shoulder.

-->"Kiss me like you did at the Lake on Naboo".