The New Order Continues, featuring thoughts I've had before!

My plans to watch all the Star Wars movies but view the three new movies in between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi continue. I suppose that even before starting to watch The Phantom Menace, I was contemplating one small point picked out by having it follow TESB directly, that the tauntauns and the kaadu help illustrate how the "popular image" of dinosaurs changed in the course of two decades. The tauntauns (which have been called "snow lizards" at times) stand in what might be called a "kangaroo at rest" posture, with their bodies angled sharply upwards and their tails dragging on the ground. In what might be called a post-Jurassic Park era, the kaadu stand with their spines more or less horizontal and perpendicular to the line of their legs. (I was going to mention the eopies as well, until I realised again that they wound up with four legs.)

I suppose, though, that I was also contemplating something else ahead of time... I was beginning to toy with the thought that I can simply no longer see why anyone would get as upset about TPM as some people have kept themselves worked up to. Then, I started to worry that this was somehow starting to indulge in a sort of hubris bound to be clobbered by hard facts, and reverted to thinking that perhaps the comedy relief was laid on a little thick for some unable to make the certain efforts of will I do, and even being willing to allow some to question the particulars of the plot... Then, when watching the movie, I basically wound up convinced that I could no longer see why anyone would cling so desperately to their dislike as some people do, and enjoyed the viewing. To be fair, though, I might not have been that concerned with trying to focus on TPM as a continuation from TESB.
( Indulgent contemplation on some plot particulars )