>> I watched the extended versions of all three LotR films in the same day
>> once.
>>
>> I felt like I just ran a marathon or something...
>
> We do that once a year (this year twice, because we got the Blu-Ray
> versions).  It is a marathon, has to be started around 9 AM to finish at
> a reasonable time. :)

Oh, wait - I thought you meant you *actually* run a marathon one a year. o_O

>> That's the thing about Episode 3. Who wants to see a guy go mad and
>> become evil? That's not a very happy story...
>
> Not all stories are intended to be 'happy'.

Yeah, that's the part I never understood. If I /wanted/ to be unhappy, I 
could just look at reality. I mean, in a few years' time I'm going to 
die, alone and unloved, and nobody is going to care. That's prety much 
sadder than anything any story writer can come up with.

I want stories as a /escape/ from reality. :-P

> Empire Strikes Back ends
> with the rebels getting their asses handed to them.  Not exactly a
> cheerful ending, but most consider it the best of the 6 films.

Um... it ends with the rebels describing the AWESOME PLAN they've 
hatched to epically overthrow the Empire. Which worked, by the way. 
Sounds like a pretty up-beat ending to me...

> I was glad that episode 3 ended the way it did - how else could it have
> ended, given what the audience knows about Vader after episode 6?

Well, that's the other thing. It's like watching Titanic. Everybody 
dies. You know that before the opening titles. So why bother watching?

(Unless you're like those kids who were overheard laughing at the idea 
that the events debated REALLY DID HAPPEN...)

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