History YMMV / AttackOfTheClones

** Why does the Republic not care about Tatooine? If they're willing to shoot people for taking planet out of their control, why is the planet that has ''always'' been out of their control, not in the firing line as well?

* SugarWiki/AndTheFandomRejoiced: What's that? The second movie includes a major character who's [[EnsembleDarkhorse Boba Fett]] [[CloningBlues in all but name]], but actually kicks ass, has more than three lines, and [[spoiler: gets a spectacular death at the end]]? Sign us up!

** Not to mention, why she seems to somehow forget what Anakin did to the Sand People, including killing their women and children, between him telling her this and when he murders the Jedi Younglings in ''Revenge of the Sith''.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: A ''lot'' of the romance subplot actually begins to make sense if you interpret Anakin as (un)intentionally using the Force to manipulate her emotions, causing her to fall in love with him. This isn't actually too far out there because its not like we haven't seen Jedi casually MindRape people to get what they want.

* AndTheFandomRejoiced: What's that? The second movie includes a major character who's [[EnsembleDarkhorse Boba Fett]] [[CloningBlues in all but name]], but actually kicks ass, has more than three lines, and [[spoiler: gets a spectacular death at the end]]? Sign us up!
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Yoda with ''a lightsaber''. There was a disturbance in The Force, as if millions of fans were silent in awe... and then suddenly cheered.

** Or stormed out of the theater after witnessing everything Yoda talked about in ''Empire'' be swiftly destroyed.

* UnfortunateImplications: Padmé's [[MoralDissonance lack of concern for her boyfriend's violent tendencies]] shown in Episode II seems to imply that, for this supposedly ethical politician, mass murder isn't too bad when it involves the death of women and children of a tribe of primitive desert nomads.

* TakeThatScrappy: Lucas finally admitted that Jar Jar was a horrible character, and in making him responsible for enabling Palpatine to rise to totalitarian power, just wanted to give viewers one last reason to hate him. He later had a statue put up in his studio of [[http://www.flickr.com/photos/thoughtwax/2635563316/ Jar Jar frozen in carbonite]], so at least he can laugh at himself.

** Why the Seperatist's leaving the Republic is a ''bad'' thing. They don't seem to be attacking anyone or doing anything sinister, they appear to just want to ''leave''. And if the supposed benevolent leaders of the Galaxy see this as grounds to create a Clone Army tasked with relentlessly slaughtering them, can you blame them?

** Probably the most blatant is that where the Republic got it's cannon fodder is the main thrust of the plot, but there's no explanation of where all the walkers, artillery, and massive space fleet came from.

** Why the Seperatist's leaving the Republic is a ''bad'' thing. They don't seem to be attacking anyone or doing anything sinister, they appear to just want to ''leave''. And if the supposed benevolent leaders of the Galaxy see this as grounds to create a Clone Army tasked with relentlessly slaughter them, can you blame them?

** FridgeBrilliance: His performance becomes ten times better when you realize that most of his behavior isn't too far away from AspergerSyndrome (albeit a milder case with a dash of Hollywood Sociopathy thrown in). Think of it: Emotionally stunted, monotone, stone-faced, no idea how to properly convey human emotions in a social setting...

** Probably the most blatant is that where the Republic got it's cannon fodder is the main thrust of the plot, but there's no explanation of where all the walkers, artillery, and massive space fleet came from is never explained.

** [[http://redlettermedia.com/clones.html So does Plinkett.]]

* RomanticPlotTumor: At least to some degree between Anakin and Padme. Probably made more glaring by some of their scenes being really toe-crunchingly awkward. While by no means the worst tumor in film history, being a ''StarWars'' film is the reason that the trope was originally called a GeorgeLucasLoveStory.

* TakeThatScrappy: Lucas finally admitted that Jar Jar was a horrible character, and just wanted to give viewers one last reason to hate him. He later had a statue put up in his studio of [[http://www.flickr.com/photos/thoughtwax/2635563316/ Jar Jar frozen in carbonite]], so at least he can laugh at himself.

* UnfortunateImplications: Padme's [[MoralDissonance lack of concern for her boyfriend's violent tendencies]] shown in Episode II seems to imply that, for this supposedly ethical politician, mass murder isn't too bad when it involves the death of women and children of a tribe of primitive desert nomads.

* SoBadItsGood: The majority of the dialogue. Especially in the romance subplot.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Yoda with ''a lightsaber''. There was a disturbance in TheForce, as if millions of fans were silent in awe... and then suddenly cheered.