Okay, my butt is officially dragging. Got to bed around 3. We had to be at the theater around 10:15 as we had priority seating (got to be at the front of the line with the other 2 winners of tickets). It was a lot of waiting around, surrounded by a lot of high school aged kids, some dressed in costume. Yep, fun time.

Accalia did great. She did fall asleep for about an hour before the movie started. She ended up being awake for about the first third and last third of the movie. In my opinion, she didn’t miss a whole lot in the middle.

I had been disappointed on a couple levels with the I and II. Have not liked the casting of Anakin in either movie, or the attempts at comic relief (Jar-Jar was blessedly silent in III). What I liked about this movie is it started with action and got back to action to end it. It did a good job of tying in this set of movies with the original movies. Things make more sense now. Still didn’t like that Darth Vader was basically a petulant, whiney little bitch before getting his ass kicked in and torched. Hard to buy that as evil. He was quasi-evil, semi-evil. I saw him more as the diet cola of evil – just one calorie – not evil enough. But the end made more sense as he lost a lot and was forced to harden his heart and fully turn to the dark side. All in all, it is the best of the three movies released after Jedi. Possibly even ties Jedi for #3 on my list of favorites.