So anyway. I bunked off this afternoon to finally see Revenge of the Sith before it’s taken off on Thursday.

Those of you who don’t want to know the score, look away now.

With brain disengaged and belief suspended I actually really enjoyed it. The acting wasn’t up to much again (I can’t wait to hear Ewan McGregor slag off the whole trilogy in a few years time) but at least Anakin Skywalker had ditched his disturbing teenage stalker persona from Episode II.

And the bit where Darth Vader goes “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!” was hilarious.

I don’t really have much else to add to what’s already been said about the film…

…except, that it didn’t fit seemlessly to the older trilogy at all well. More like two mismatching pieces of jigsaw hammered together by an impatient child.

Where was the scene where R2D2 has the natty little rockets that allow him to fly removed? He doesn’t use them in Episodes 4, 5 and 6. Or his James Bond oil slick dispenser either. He gets into all kinds of scrapes in 4, 5 and 6 where such doohickies would have been dead useful but he doesn’t use them. Hmmmm.

And where was the bit where Anakin tells Obi-Wan to give his lightsabre to Luke as related by Obi-Wan to Luke in A New Hope?

And the conversation between Luke and Ben in Return of the Jedi where Luke says he can still sense good in Darth Vader and Ben says that he’s “more machine than man, twisted, twisted and evil” will have a nasty resonance from now on. I won’t be able to watch that scene without thinking, “Well you’d know, you old sod. You’re the one who chopped his legs off and left him to burn to death in a volcano.” Obviously, telling a young man who you want to save the galaxy that you once tried to off his dad isn’t the best way to go about things but it turns out that Obi-Wan Kenobi has been a lying, conniving, murderous get all along.

And how does Leia remember her mother, as she tells Luke in Return of the Jedi? “She was very beautiful. Kind, but…sad,” she says. But her mum was brown bread before Leia had barely opened her eyes.

And does Luke never mention to Chewbacca that he’s being trained by Yoda? Like at the end of The Empire Strikes Back? At no point does Chewie ask where the hell had Luke been while him and the others had been shot at, frozen, blown up and tortured? Chewbacca could say, “Yoda? Hell, I know Yoda. Saved his life once, y’know. Give him my best, won’t you?”

And George Lucas has a really creepy thing for amputations. Loads of them. By the end of the film there was hardly a character that hadn’t had a bit lopped off.

Apart from that, it was really good.