Useless Nerd Critique: Mace Windu

Don't know why I'm thinking about this. Maybe it has to do with the hundreds of pages I've had to grade the past few weeks and I'm just getting batty.

George Lucas's writing has strengths and weakness, but here's a specific one to address: Mace Windu. He knows he should be using the force only for foreshadowing, not exposition. Most force-enabled characters sense another person or something foreshadowy such as "great fear," "anger," or "pain." Mace senses "a plot to destroy the Jedi" (Revenge of the Sith minute 97 or so). Too specific. Too full of exposition. Undercuts all previously cool mystery established by indefinable sensory Jedi powers. Another Mace problem: actor whose identity in other films is too hard for me to shake as I watch him try to be a guardian of peace and justice. Not that he's a bad actor per se, he's just done too well in other roles. So, of course, someone had to create "I'm tired of these motherfucking Sith in this motherfucking Senate."

It's entertaining, but like I said, maybe I've been doing too much grading.