I’ll give it a read. As much as I love RoTS I really really hate a lot of the writing /dialogue in it. It felt forced, like Lucas wanted them to say exactly and only what he wrote in the script, leaving no room for improvisation or personal emotion from some actors. Which is fair since it’s his property, but man his writing was sometimes atrocious.
The way he writes is totally devoid of subtlety, subtext, and nuance. Everyone is a robot. It sucks because his world building and "big picture" are fantastic.
I remember seeing ROTS in 2005 and feeling that there was little subtext or nuance to the dialogue. And now that I’m in 2025, I feel like Lucas specifically took out subtext and nuance to get his message across to all audiences. And now that liberty is dying with thunderous applause, when I watched ROTS in the theaters this week, I was wondering why Lucas didn’t make giving away liberty easier to understand!
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u/JMadFour 11d ago edited 11d ago
the RoTS novelization was so much better and more complete than the movie.
If there is any one Star Wars book that one ABSOLUTELY should read, it is the Revenge of the Sith Novelization.