Friday nights are REALLY boring

In the run-up to the Japanese premiere of Star Wars Ep. III, one of the networks is showing episode 1 tonight and episode 2 next week. I've started watching. Jar Jar has made his first appearance. I've started drinking. Sense a causal relationship here?

It's interesting to note that for the opening crawl, instead of using subtitles, they had some Japanese guy actually reading the thing in Japanese. Weird. Also, instead of letterboxing or pan&scanning, when there's action at both sides of the screen, they actually squish the picture so that both ends appear in the 1:33 screen.

I need (another) drink...

Rob