Episode 29: The 30 Best Star Wars Characters
Posted in Episodes on January 16, 2013
We can all guess the top ten with our brains turned off, but who else makes the cut? Who is the greatest villain? Who, as Rob says, means that we all owe Jar Jar Binks an apology?
And just what is the name of the guy who co-pilots the Millennium Falcon with Lando?
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I’m disappointed that Tycho Celchu, Wess Janson, Derek “Hobbie” Klivian, and Corran Horn didn’t make the list. But it doesn’t look like the expanded universe was considered. Pity. I don’t rank those submissions equally. Corran Horn would be around #4 for me overall. The others would be further down the list.
If you want to have fun rewatch all 6 movies, only imagine the jedi are lying duplicitous religious fundamentalists (who act as the secret police to a failing bloated beaucracy) that go around chopping the heads off anyone that disagrees with their hokey religion. And that the Sith are instituting something of a meritocracy onto the bloated corpse of the republic.
And stormtroopers werent bad shots (well not until marketing became more important than story)…they are excellent shots, even kenobi says so.
If you are going to watch the prequel trilogy you should watch the movies in this order.
Ep4
Ep5
Ep6 – up to Luke’s meeting with ghost Obi-Wan.
Ep1-Ep3 (as if this is Obi-Wan’s retelling the story to Luke)
And end with the second half of Ep6.
I think the best banter in the movies is the ongoing one between Han and C3PO, although it’s quite one-sided.
Hey, you guys didn’t even say where you got this list from. I thought it was your list until you kept saying “this list,” and then I did a Google search and found Total Film.
Your discussion about Leia mouthing off to all the bad guys made me realize that she never really gave Jabba a piece of her mind. She just said something bland like “You’ll regret this.” Just another of the hundred reasons why Return of the Jedi was so disappointingly bland.