"First off, I'm impressed and appalled that Lucas managed an entire movie in which not a single female character other than Padme had a speaking line."

Oh good - I'm not alone. No-one else I know seems to have noticed (or at least cared enough to mention it).

And the film was rather spoiled for me by the bits where I went "Oh god, I hope they don't make that into a level in Lego Star Wars - because that's gonna irritate the hell out of me."