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...That's ultimately how The Phantom Menace measures up: it's a pretty good bad movie. It does everything it means to do, creating a visually remarkable world inhabited by strange and fascinating creatures, introducing the key players for the next two episodes and playing upon the audience's sentimental attachment to its predecessors. Its nostalgia about what's to come is perhaps its greatest strength and driving Force (forgive me); the plot borrows liberally from Episodes IV, V and VI both in structure and theme, and to good effect...
...teachers were low-key about what students described as extraordinary efforts...
Edelman's set works effectively to underline this theme of materialism. It seems at first ridiculously simple, consisting only of a large box and the three caskets that contain the key to Portia's fortune. These caskets, the very symbols of greed arranged and rearranged into the various settings of the play gradually drive home the inconsistencies in the Venetians' ideals...
Since Captain Ivy Wang's shoulder injury earlier this season, many of Harvard's key players have been rotated through the No. 1 position and have done an excellent job. If Wang does not play this weekend, it appears that junior Vedica Jain will once again step into the first position...
Before going on, I should note that the soundtrack apparently has huge spoilers in the track listing; that is, the titles of the tracks give away key parts of the plot. I say apparently because I have avoided them assiduously, and listing them here would only, of course, tempt the reader to spoil it for him/herself as well. So while I will discuss the few pieces that won't give anything away (such as "Anakin's Theme"), you'll have to buy the soundtrack (or glance at the back in Newbury Comics) to find out what the rest...