Taking the Sith...

...extracting urine or large wodges of cash via marketing? I'm not a Star Wars devotee, but have always remembered my five-year-old impressions at the cinema as well as the Darth Vader poster from The Empire Strikes Back that would scare me witless when the lights went out. Well, I was not impressed by Episode 1 with that blasted Binks thing, but thought that Episode 2 brought back some of the tension - what a disappointment Episode 3 was then. Don't get me wrong, some of it was good from a story perspective, but some of the lines were appalling and I got the impression that the effects were pulling the strings, not the plot. The problem with these prequels has been that they never captured the gung-ho enthusiasm of Star Wars onward (as embodied by Han Solo) - what a shame.