Why do you DO this to me, George Lucas?

The trailer for the new Star Wars movie, Revenge of the Sith looks fantastic. But so did the trailers for the last two Star Wars movies and my God what a pair of snorefests those were. They were like some intergalactic version of C-span, live coverage of the Jedi council debates, Imperial senate sub-commitees on trade and so on. It all looked so wonderful and then ... nothing happened, or things happened and I did not care at all. Watching the acting was like watching the Thunderbird puppets. Did Lucas direct all of his actors to not move their faces at all? It looked like every single one of them had their faces shot full of Botox.

What kills me is that I'm going to see the next movie. I've got to, just on the off chance that it'll actually be good, that I'll actually want to see this. For a change.

There are some good signs. Lucas didn't write this one himself, and that's a very good sign indeed. He's notorious for writing dialog that actors can't actually speak. Apparently he got somebody good to write this one.

The basic problem is that he now has no one to tell him when his stuff is crap. Whatever he does he thinks is great so it's all up on the screen -all four hours of a two hour movie.

Star Wars happens a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. But where, I ask, is God? Any kind of God. Wouldn't you think the supreme deity - however you call him(or her) - had as much to do with the Star Wars universe as he(or she) does with ours but he (or she) doesn't even get a mention. The movies clearly have Good and they clearly have Evil but not God - TheForce is talked about, of course, but in no ways does The Force seemto represent an all powerful anthropomorphic deity of the kind we're used to. And want. And need. Likewise we also don't have a Heaven or a Hell and that just doesn't seem to be right. It really burned me when at the very end of the third movie, Darth Vader chooses the good side, finally, then dies. The next thing we see is his ghost, laughing and smiling surrounded by a glowing blue aura while he's with the ghosts of Obi Wan Kenobi and Yoda, who also seem pretty happy.

Wait. This guy destroys billions of people. He's personally responsible for suffering on an unimaginable scale. And there's no reckoning for him? He just gets to party on in the Jedi after-life for all of eternity, because - what? He made the right decision at the very, very last possible moment? I've never seen the movie 'Clerks' but I've been told that this exact question is discussed with great insight.

Which bring me to the question of where is God in the rest of the Universe? Most scientists acknowledge that there must be life elsewhere in the Universe and NASA's strongly suggesting that they've found it for sure on Mars. I believe they actually found it there a long time ago, but that's another story. Some of this life is going to be intelligent. Does that mean then that Jesus's is going to have to go to each and every one of those planets and get crucified so that he can sacrifice himself for whatever intelligent species in on that planet? That would explain why it's taking him so long to get back to Earth. He's busy elsewhere and there are alot of places for him to get to before he can get back to us.