Jaina Skywalker Solo
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I've never seen The Clone Wars cartoons.  Are they available to buy on dvd?
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ORIGINAL: pablohoolio
When I was a kid [RotJ] was my favourite of all three. As people get older, they become more cynical and forget just why they loved it in the first place. As a kid I loved the Ewoks and the whole last hour was just unbelievable cinema! And it's a shame people bash it now for the Ewoks as it contains probably the most emotional core of the whole trilogy with Luke trying to get his father back from the dark side. The scene with Yoda telling Luke Vader is ineed his father and the scenes with the Emperor are brilliant scenes.
Two scenes in Jedi stand out for me above all else though. The Endor platform scene with Luke and Vader. The way Vader meets Luke for the first time since cutting his hand off but just calmly talks to him like father to son is superb. And when he lights Luke's saber up, and Luke has a slightly worried expression is very tense. When Luke says 'Then my father is truly dead' and is taken away, the way Vader stands there, even though you can't see emotion in him, you can tell that it really hit him what Luke said.
The second scene is when Vader throws the Emperor down the shaft. The way he is looking back and forth and then he picks him up (to the tune of the Force Theme by John Williams) is spine tingling.
That post gave me goosebumps. 
I especially agree with this bit:
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When Luke says 'Then my father is truly dead' and is taken away, the way Vader stands there, even though you can't see emotion in him, you can tell that it really hit him what Luke said.
It's literally quite amazing that we know exactly what Vader is feeling there, despite him being a usually-emotionless character and completely hidden from our view. Has a mask ever been more expressive?
It's a testament to the genius of George Lucas (*gasp* yes, I said it!).
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ORIGINAL: pablohoolio
Star Wars, for someone who grew up with it like I did, is more than just a movie. Its part of my childhood. So even though TPM was dissapointing, photo's like this still give me chills down my spine and any Star Wars fan would say, put the DVD of TPM in your player and stick the teaser trailer for TPM on and sit back and think just how good it was to see NEW Star Wars footage for the first time in 17 years!
I always remember where I was when I saw the teaser for TPM and how much seeing Maul and his double saber just made me feel like a kid again. Without getting into a prequels debate, it just made me remember the old movies and how I felt about them when I was 8-9 and growing up with them. Thats why this photo of Maul and Obi Wan makes me feel the same.
Love it.
Again, agreed 100%.
I have tried, in vain, to explain to people what Star Wars means to me, but most just do not understand. As you said, it's so much more than just three films; it's so many happy childhood memories spent watching them with my siblings, and being frightened by the Wampa and the Sarlacc; memories of feeling so happy when Han was released from the Carbonite (I’ve always had a major crush  ); memories of playing with my brother's AT-AT (how cool?!) and literally hundreds of figures and toys (he had Boba Fett's nifty Slave 1 ship with the walk-the-plank type thing at the end, and Han, and Luke, and Vader, and Leia in Boussh disguise - which was mine, goddamnit  - and the Millenium Falcon, the TIE Fighters, etc, etc), memories of imagining I was Leia, but with a lightsabre (I'm really showing myself up here as a geek!), etc.
I remember when I first saw the poster of little Anakin with the shadow of Darth Vader - it was in the now-closed Odeon on the South Bridge in Edinburgh - and I just stood there and shivered. It was Star Wars that I hadn't seen before, and it was a brilliant feeling.
To be honest, I think you either get it or you don’t. But, interestingly enough, I’ve spoken to several LotR fans who seen to understand completely. Because they also have a whole mythology and universe that they can buy into completely. I imagine that in 15 years time, there will be a generation of LotR fans obsessing over their childhood heroes in the exact same way that we do.
Although it’ll never be as good, of course.
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). It's not as though the Ewoks fought the whole battle. 
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