I feel there's been a great disturbance in the force.

After leaving episode III I felt out of balance and ill for three days. It was not because the film ended on a down note. That was inevitable. After meditating on it I've concluded that:

GEORGE LUCAS has gone to the dark side.

Why, I haven't clarity at this time. But maybe some of you have. There were always the rumors that it was not his brilliance that created episode IV at all, but perhaps stolen from Alan Dean Foster. This is a lot more believable now. There is no way that episode IV and III are from the same spirit in any way.

Let alone insulting any true fans with the numerous inconsistencies in III. I shouldn't go into it all, but an obvious one was Leah's conversation with Luke where she claims to remember her mother being very beautiful and sad, etc. Oh yeah, we're supposed to accept she got that 75 seconds after birth. I could continue, but it is unnecessary.

The true give away is that Lucas paints an entirely weak and pathetic image of the Jedi, their ability, power, and use of the force throughout episode III.

It's hard to believe it was pure Hollywood glamor that drove him to do it. He must have read the reports of hundreds of thousands of people world wide who claimed Jedi as their religion on census forms. As well as the well known reality that for many people the fleshing out of the concepts of the Force has become their true connection to their own personal power and an opening to their spirituality. Lucas has to be aware of the intense influence the Star Wars saga has had on the collective spirituality of the species.

So why did he do it? Why did he make the much anticipated seduction of Anakin Skywalker to the dark side so weak and pathetic. This one soul turning is going to make quite an impact on their entire galaxy, he annihilates Alderon, etc. Let me get this straight Anakin turns to Darth Vader because of a nightmare? That's it. WEAK!!! His diluted shift to the dark side made jedi look weak, made the force seem like a set of mind games, it makes the dark side look like no real threat. What type of emotion did this evoke in his audience. Not a lot. I was groaning, with "Oh, please, how pathetic" disappointment. Now when Anakin slaughtered an entire tribe of Sand people after his mother dying in his arms, that was more believable. Each member of the audience could question their own feelings, and wonder if they too would have done the same. But a nightmare with no real detail, who could relate?

What about Padme? What was Lucas's intention there? Her character was developed as strong, intense, sworn to duty, and very much like a Jedi herself. Now what is the image Lucas leaves us with? Pathetic, absolutely pathetic, and out of character. Lucas has her die of nothing. A broken heart, how pathetic. Padme, Leah and Luke's mother who served her duties with all her soul. We're supposed to accept that she just "loses the will to live" while being called to the highest duty any woman ever could be, motherhood. She names them without hesitation, and then rolls over will less and dies of nothing. Was Lucas trying to make us sick? Leah remembers her mother, Padme was also strong with the Force. Well, not any more! Lucas just rewrote history and made it ugly, spirit less, and pathetic.

What about the numerous Jedi he showed being taken out by a few cloned storm troopers. Like they wouldn't have felt the shift and seen it coming. Lucas didn't even have the decency to have thousands taking down each Jedi. Since when do storm troopers take out main characters anyway. They had been shown previously as hardly able to hit a target the size of a barn. Let's all forget that Obi Wan said that Darth Vader assisted the Emperor in hunting down and destroying the Jedi, not a few storm troopers. Why would Lucas now choose to make the Jedi look so weak, unintuitive, and pathetic?

Tell me anyone left the theater sympathizing with Anakin or Padme. I bet most people left feeling weak and nauseated the way I did. Lucas let down his true fans. He also let down those who considered Star Wars a true awakening to our inner power and spirituality, those who are developing the force, or who live or practice in the ways and faith of the Jedi.

I've had to exert personal energy to try to shift my emotions continuously since the 19th of May. My judgment has been clouded with hateful emotions... I just can't see at this time why he did it.

If this sounds like an exaggeration, or a bit over doing it. I ask you what image of Jedi you left the theater with? How did you feel? I invite you to search your feelings.

-Shereen