{"id":798,"date":"2002-05-16T07:31:46","date_gmt":"2002-05-16T07:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/wp\/?p=798"},"modified":"2002-05-16T07:31:46","modified_gmt":"2002-05-16T07:31:46","slug":"the-requisite-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2002\/05\/the-requisite-post\/","title":{"rendered":"The Requisite Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, we went to the movie last night.  No spoilers, just my very vague impressions.<br \/>\nBetter than Episode 1?  Absolutely.  Much more visually interesting &#8212; Lucas acknowledges for the first time that I&#8217;m aware of that planets actually have weather, not just climates.  Also, the plot is much more convoluted and interesting.<br \/>\nFavorite episode?  No.  Pacing in the first half could have been tighter.  There was a slightly &#8216;off&#8217; feel to a great number of the action scenes that I think better editting could have fixed.  I&#8217;ll probably always be an <i>Empire Strikes Back<\/i> guy, I guess.<br \/>\nShould you see it?  That&#8217;s funny &#8212; what are you, crazy?  Go see it.  It&#8217;s pretty damn fantastic.  There are a great number of very, very good parts.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve got a lot more to say about individual scenes that will just have to wait for a week, or just for a long conversation with people face to face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, we went to the movie last night. No spoilers, just my very vague impressions. Better than Episode 1? Absolutely. Much more visually interesting &#8212; Lucas acknowledges for the first time that I&#8217;m aware of that planets actually have weather, not just climates. Also, the plot is much more convoluted and interesting. Favorite episode? No. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2002\/05\/the-requisite-post\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Requisite Post&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky-fanboy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}