So obviously I have a soft spot for Ithorians and Togruta ;)
Roron Corobb is my favourite Jedi because, in his few minutes of screen-time, he's just completely awe-inspiring. The big, gentle Ithorian species has produced one of the most amazing Jedi characters - he's a great fighter, and his roar is just stunningly cool. I've always found something compelling about gentle giants who prove to be truly powerful, like the Ents from LOTR, and here the Ithorians.
Ahsoka is my second favourite Jedi because as well as being a really cool fighter with a great look, her story arc over the course of The Clone Wars was just SO good - she went from being kind of annoying to the best thing about the entire prequel era. Star Wars really needed some decent female characters, and Ahsoka is a great addition. The stories that focused on her in later seasons were really compelling, and her departure from the Jedi order was just the perfect ending to the series. Her insertion into the narrative and what it did to Anakin make for a far more satisfying impetus for Anakin's eventual fall to the Dark Side.
Speaking of, the Anakin we get in both animated TV series is far better than the movie version. He's the hero we should have had on the big screen - a much more believable leading man, someone who's genuinely good but flawed. His relationships with Padme and Obi Wan work much better on the small screen where they're given time to develop and play out properly, and his love for his little padawan is palpable. When she walks away from him, after revealing that she knows his biggest secret, is just devastating to watch, you can actually see his heart breaking - impressive animation there.
Shaak Ti is strikingly beautiful, an amazing fighter (the way she takes on Grievous all by herself is SO cool), and a Togruta, like Ahsoka - a species I've already noted I find really interesting to look at. She has a real grace about her, and a cool accent. And I love the fact that she survives on her own for so long after all the other Jedi are exterminated. The most cunning Jedi, indeed.
Luminara is another really cool female character, she's wise and humble and disciplined, powerful and patient, and she looks really cool too. She has real poise, and it's so cool to see someone that reserved bust out the moves.
Yoda is the real heart of Star Wars, in many ways. He's so fundamentally good, so in tune with everything, of course he was going to be in this list. Everyone has a soft spot for Yoda. And he's awesome in the animated series and the prequel movies, but never as awesome as he was in his first appearance in Empire. That's who he should have been all along - not a warrior, jumping around with lightsaber flashing, but a quiet and astonishingly powerful being of great calm and patience.
Plo Koon is just a really attractive individual, he's the closest thing Ahsoka has to family, and he is so genuinely kind and caring it's impossible not to love him. It makes his failure to support Ahsoka at the end of the animated series all the more heartbreaking.
Obi Wan is, I think, the real hero of the prequel era. He's everything Anakin should be, and everything he ultimately fails to be. Superbly acted on both big and small screen. The addition of a tragic love story did a lot to make me like him more.
And Mace Windu is just a really awesome character. He has amazing gravitas, but it's his faults I find compelling - his distrust of Anakin and Ahsoka, his arrogance, his failing to see Palpatine for what he truly is. He's a great character.
How could the best Sith be anyone BUT Palpatine/Sidious? He's the ultimate bad guy, so deliciously, stylishly evil, he steals every scene his in. He's behind everything in the entire Star Wars saga from Phantom Menace onward, simply put, there is no Star Wars without him. And it's fantastic seeing him playing everyone for fools.
Maul is my second favourite Sith, because he's the perfect embodiment of evil - the guy looks like the Devil, and in The Clone Wars he even gets Satan legs. His re-emergence after years of madness is a really exciting storyline, and the way he brutally murders the person Obi Wan loves most, it's... chilling.
Vader would have been my number two Sith, but he's been redeemed a bit after all these prequels and animated series, he's less a brooding evil than a tragic figure. But he's still mostly pretty badass.
Plagueis hasn't actually appeared in any televised episode or movie, apart from when Palpatine tells Anakin about him, but the novel Darth Plagueis is one of my favourite EU stories, and he's just a fascinating character. And there are all sorts of theories that Plagueis somehow survived his death, becoming the most powerful Sith ever - even more powerful than Sidious, and I like that idea, that somehow Palpatine's arrogance prevents him from truly grasping the truth. I guess I like Plagueis so much because he makes Palpatine so much more interesting.
And finally Tyrannus - I've never liked Count Dooku much. He only makes sense to me as a puppet, a tool of Sidious' who doesn't realise how disposable he is. About the only thing I like about him is his relationship with Asajj Ventress.
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So obviously I have a soft spot for Ithorians and Togruta ;)
ReplyDeleteRoron Corobb is my favourite Jedi because, in his few minutes of screen-time, he's just completely awe-inspiring. The big, gentle Ithorian species has produced one of the most amazing Jedi characters - he's a great fighter, and his roar is just stunningly cool. I've always found something compelling about gentle giants who prove to be truly powerful, like the Ents from LOTR, and here the Ithorians.
Ahsoka is my second favourite Jedi because as well as being a really cool fighter with a great look, her story arc over the course of The Clone Wars was just SO good - she went from being kind of annoying to the best thing about the entire prequel era. Star Wars really needed some decent female characters, and Ahsoka is a great addition. The stories that focused on her in later seasons were really compelling, and her departure from the Jedi order was just the perfect ending to the series. Her insertion into the narrative and what it did to Anakin make for a far more satisfying impetus for Anakin's eventual fall to the Dark Side.
Speaking of, the Anakin we get in both animated TV series is far better than the movie version. He's the hero we should have had on the big screen - a much more believable leading man, someone who's genuinely good but flawed. His relationships with Padme and Obi Wan work much better on the small screen where they're given time to develop and play out properly, and his love for his little padawan is palpable. When she walks away from him, after revealing that she knows his biggest secret, is just devastating to watch, you can actually see his heart breaking - impressive animation there.
Shaak Ti is strikingly beautiful, an amazing fighter (the way she takes on Grievous all by herself is SO cool), and a Togruta, like Ahsoka - a species I've already noted I find really interesting to look at. She has a real grace about her, and a cool accent. And I love the fact that she survives on her own for so long after all the other Jedi are exterminated. The most cunning Jedi, indeed.
Luminara is another really cool female character, she's wise and humble and disciplined, powerful and patient, and she looks really cool too. She has real poise, and it's so cool to see someone that reserved bust out the moves.
Yoda is the real heart of Star Wars, in many ways. He's so fundamentally good, so in tune with everything, of course he was going to be in this list. Everyone has a soft spot for Yoda. And he's awesome in the animated series and the prequel movies, but never as awesome as he was in his first appearance in Empire. That's who he should have been all along - not a warrior, jumping around with lightsaber flashing, but a quiet and astonishingly powerful being of great calm and patience.
Plo Koon is just a really attractive individual, he's the closest thing Ahsoka has to family, and he is so genuinely kind and caring it's impossible not to love him. It makes his failure to support Ahsoka at the end of the animated series all the more heartbreaking.
Obi Wan is, I think, the real hero of the prequel era. He's everything Anakin should be, and everything he ultimately fails to be. Superbly acted on both big and small screen. The addition of a tragic love story did a lot to make me like him more.
And Mace Windu is just a really awesome character. He has amazing gravitas, but it's his faults I find compelling - his distrust of Anakin and Ahsoka, his arrogance, his failing to see Palpatine for what he truly is. He's a great character.
As for the Sith:
ReplyDeleteHow could the best Sith be anyone BUT Palpatine/Sidious? He's the ultimate bad guy, so deliciously, stylishly evil, he steals every scene his in. He's behind everything in the entire Star Wars saga from Phantom Menace onward, simply put, there is no Star Wars without him. And it's fantastic seeing him playing everyone for fools.
Maul is my second favourite Sith, because he's the perfect embodiment of evil - the guy looks like the Devil, and in The Clone Wars he even gets Satan legs. His re-emergence after years of madness is a really exciting storyline, and the way he brutally murders the person Obi Wan loves most, it's... chilling.
Vader would have been my number two Sith, but he's been redeemed a bit after all these prequels and animated series, he's less a brooding evil than a tragic figure. But he's still mostly pretty badass.
Plagueis hasn't actually appeared in any televised episode or movie, apart from when Palpatine tells Anakin about him, but the novel Darth Plagueis is one of my favourite EU stories, and he's just a fascinating character. And there are all sorts of theories that Plagueis somehow survived his death, becoming the most powerful Sith ever - even more powerful than Sidious, and I like that idea, that somehow Palpatine's arrogance prevents him from truly grasping the truth. I guess I like Plagueis so much because he makes Palpatine so much more interesting.
And finally Tyrannus - I've never liked Count Dooku much. He only makes sense to me as a puppet, a tool of Sidious' who doesn't realise how disposable he is. About the only thing I like about him is his relationship with Asajj Ventress.