By Patrick Dawson Guest writer

  With quarantine making everyone bored as ever, I decided I was going to rewatch all of Star Wars canon, everything officially in the Star Wars storyline. Every movie and every TV show. My favorite of them all is Episode 3, Revenge of the Sith. They made the movies backward, so it was technically the 6th episode, but if you’re looking at it in order of the storyline, it’s episode 3.

  This movie, along with episodes 1 and 2, otherwise known as the prequel trilogy, gets a lot of hate. Some of it is warranted, and some isn’t. In the prequel trilogy, there’s a lot of cringey “love” scenes, poor writing, bad CGI, unnecessary characters, things of that nature. But not Revenge of the Sith, which I will call ROTS from now on. 

  This movie’s storytelling is amazing. You can see, every time the Jedi disrespect Anakin, every time the Chancellor praises Anakin, every time Padme tells him something about her pregnancy and their future, and every time Anakin has a nightmare, how it just destroys him. He’s caught in a tug of war between the Jedi, who believe he is the chosen one but continue to disrespect him, and the Chancellor, a Sith Lord disguised as the Chancellor who is in need of a new apprentice. Every single thing that happens has an effect on Anakin’s mind and directly changes his actions. Eventually, the Chancellor wins. He convinces Anakin that by using the dark side of the force he can save his wife from certain death, as Anakin has been having nightmares about her death. You can tell that this is what made him go over the hump. From the battles, to the emotional conflict, to the storytelling. It’s all great. The effects are beautiful. The volcano planet Mustafar looks amazing. The music in the Order 66 scene just crushes you. It’s truly a work of art. ROTS has some of the best elements of Star Wars as a whole, the moral conflict, war, good vs bad, will to do anything to save the ones you love, and pure manipulation by the dark side. It’s an amazing movie, and I’d for sure recommend you watch it.