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Given the level of inherent 'geek' detail to be found in the Star Wars poll I posted just below, and my fanatacism for the same, I thought it in, well, somebody's best interest to post my own responses here.  I dare you to argue with them.  They're iron-clad in my geekness.  Yes, everything below is pulled direct from memory.  Feel free to mock me.

Bonus points if you can interpret the significance of the post title.

Simon's Answers:

1. Best Star Wars moment:
Empire Strikes Back
Vader: "Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father."
Luke: "He told me enough.  He told me you killed him."
Vader: "No.  I... am your father."
Luke: "NOOO!!"

2.  Best Hero:
Luke Skywalker

3.  Best Villain:
Darth Sidious / Emperor / Chancellor Palpatine

4.  Best Alien / Creature:
The Rancor
(poor, misunderstood and abused beast...)

5.  Best Minor Character:
Salacious Crumb (Jabba's mouthy sidekick)

6.  Best line of dialogue:
A New Hope
Vader:  "The circle is now complete.  When I left you, I was but the learner.  Now I am the Master."

7.  Sexiest character:
Leia
(It's all about the golden slave bikini, baby)

8.  Best costume:
Boushh
(Come on; did anyone guess that was Leia?!)

9.  Best haircut:
Chewbacca

10.  Best innuendo:
Empire Strikes Back
Leia:  "Let go of me."
Han:  "Shhh!"
Leia:  "Han, please."
Han:  "All right!  Relax your highness, don't get excited!"
Leia:  "Captain, being held by you isn't quite enough to get me excited."
Han:  "Sorry Princess, we don't have time for anything else..."

11.  Best Lightsabre:
Luke's from A New Hope.
(It started it all.  Mace's from Clones was pretty cool though.)

12.  Best Gun:
The Death Star

13. Best Fight:
Attack of the Clones
Yoda versus Count Dooku
(Though by all accounts, this will quickly be eclipsed by the climactic Anakin versus Obi-Wan duel in Sith.)

14.  Best Vehicle:
The Millennium Falcon
(I mean c'mon, it goes point-five past light speed!)

15.  Best Title:
Revenge of the Sith

16.  Best Toy:
Just in general, the three and three-quarter inch action figures.

17.  Best Spoof / Spinoff:
Spaceballs: The Movie

18.  Best Game:
Star Wars Trivial Pursuit
(I am yet undefeated.)

19.  Best use of, "I have a bad feeling about this."
Luke in A New Hope, approaching the Death Star for the first time.

20.  Best use of the Force:
A New Hope
(It was also the very first use of the Force revealed to audiences.)
Trooper:  "I'll need to see some identification."
Ben:  "You don't need to see his identification."
Trooper: "We don't need to see his identification."
Ben:  "These aren't the droids you're looking for."
Trooper:  "These aren't the droids we're looking for."
Ben:  "He can go about his business."
Trooper:  "You can go about your business."
Ben:  "Move along."
Trooper:  "Move along, move along."

21.  Best Poster:

22.  Best Trailer:
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (theatrical)
(I'm slightly biased on this one right now.)

23.  Best Death:
Qui-Gon Jinn

24.  Best Entrance:
Vader's first entrance on the Tantive IV.

25.  Best Chase Sequence:
Jango and Obi-Wan through the asteroid field.

26.  Best Action Set Piece:
The X-wing attack on the first Death Star.

27.  Best musical cue:
Vader's march.

28.  Best sound effect:
The unmistakable snap-hiss of a lightsabre igniting.

29.  Best visual effect:
Lightsabre blades.

30.  Best expanded universe character:
Grand Admiral Thrawn
(I've exposed myself to very little expanded universe stuff, but Thrawn was cool in Timothy Zahn's trilogy of books.)

31.  Best Gag:
A New Hope
The stormtrooper head-bonk on the doorway.  It was unintentional at the time and has propogated through the rest of the films.

32.  Best Planet:
Tatooine - where it all began.

33.  Best Special Edition Tweak:
Improved X-wing attack on the first Death Star.

34.  Best Film:
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope

Comments

[fv]

Where Simon goes wrong.

1. Best Star Wars moment:
"It is too late for me, son. The Emperor will show you the true nature of the Force. He is your master now."
"Then my father is truly dead."

4. Best Alien / Creature:
Chewie

5. Best Minor Character:
Wedge

6. Best line of dialogue:
"All too easy."

8. Best costume:
Sarlacc Pit

11. Best Lightsabre:
Luke's from Jedi. He built it himself! His powers were complete! Plus it fits in R2-D2.

13. Best Fight:
Attack of the Clones
Yoda versus Count Dooku
Ugh! I have to take a moment to reject this fight. It was way too frenetic for a true Jedi Master. I was hoping for some Crouching Tiger minimal-movement fighting from him.

The real best fight so far is easily Obi-Wan v Darth Maul. Look carefully, padawan.

14. Best Vehicle:
Landspeeders.

20. Best use of the Force:
Qui-Gon using his lightsaber to melt the door to the trade federation bridge. Damn!

21. Best Poster:
Any Special edition classic trilogy poster. Love em.

23. Best Death:
Death Star II

25. Best Chase Sequence:
Luke and Leia vs two Scouts on landspeeders in Jedi

26. Best Action Set Piece:
Jabba's barge

32. Best Planet:
Coruscant - of all the planets to have one environment, this one I believe the most.

33. Best Special Edition Tweak:
Cloud City in Empire.

34. Best Film:
Jedi, just for the excellent showdown

[Simon]

vinny offers up some very respectable alternates for some of the poll questions. Being the open-minded fellow that I am, there is really only one to which I take exception:

The best use of the Force in the series was definitely Obi-Wan's jedi mind trick used on the trooper entering Mos Eisley. It shows the true subtle nature of the Force, not just the in-your-face kind of stuff.

Plus, Qui-Gon's use of the lightsabre was purely technological. Unless you count the fact that one must use the Force in the construction of the device, which is a bit of a cop-out on the question if you ask me. But you didn't.

[fv]

Is the lightsaber purely technology? Qui-Gon looks like he's concentrating on the force. He doesn't even notice the approach of the droidekas.

[Alan]

I'm just posting for the bonus points :)

3263827 - the serial number of the trash compactor. A friend of mine won at Star Wars trivial pursuit with that question.

[Chris]

I'd have to give the best death scene to Shmi Skywalker. Qui Gon did that lame stunt fall at the end of his.

[Ramification]

Best moment:
Luke go dark-side bad ass on Vader with massive aggression when the latter threatens with the corruption of Luke's sister.
Notice the background score turns towards a sorrow-esque melody, signaling the corruption of Luke and the struggle between son and father (nothing is as sad as a torn up family); then as he realises what he has wrought, one step from killing Vader, taking a look at Vader, then at his metallic cybernetic palm (arm) implant and stopping.
Second, perhaps, only to the "-I- am your father" scene as a dramatic climax.

[Saniyah]

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