karamazov80 will be happy to know that I noticed even more parallels between TWS and ROTS the second time around. The movie opens with some badasses boarding a ship due to a hostage situation, they fight a bad guy but he escapes. Otherwise the mission is a success. In the middle part of the movie there's an old guy in charge who acts good but is really bad. So bad that he tries to have SLJ killed. Council meetings with holograms sitting in chairs are involved. An executive order is given for soldiers to turn on the heroes. And then the finale features the old guy being confronted in his fancy office while elsewhere two guys who used to be friends (the bad one used to have short hair but now has long hair and a robotic left arm) and they fight until one of them is "defeated" and left in some dirt by his one time best friend.
Now we know what ROTS would have been like if it was good.
