Star Wars (& HP)

[Caius Marcius]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "songbird3411" 
<SongBird3411 at a...> wrote:
> I have something Harry Potter related in my mind after seeing the 
new 
> Star Wars movie.  (Twice. Yes I am obsessed.)  Slight Star Wars 
> spoilers ahead.
> 
> I think that if these Star Wars prequels were good for one thing, 
it 
> might not be showing us Anakin's fall to the Dark Side.  No, I 
think 
> the best thing about these Star Wars prequels has been the 
depiction 
> of one of the best movie villains of all time.
> 
> Honestly, the only thing I find worthwhile about the first two 
> prequels is seeing the complete and total control Palpatine has 
over 
> events.  Palpatine has turned out to be one of the scariest 
villains 
> I have ever encountered.
> 
>[Catalogue of Palpatine's villainy excised.]

Granted, Palpatine is no mean Machiavel, but the one of the "scariest 
villains" ever?  No way! I can barely remember what he looks like, or 
recall a single individual personality trait about him.  A great 
villain (such as Vadar or Voldemort) is great because of who he is, 
rather than what he does. Palpatine is simply too boring and one-
dimesional a character - calling him cardboard would be an insult to 
that highly useful paper product - to secure even the slightest of 
toeholds in the pantheon of great cinematic/literary villainy.

   - CMC