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mikailborgOkay, so now I'm going to ask my questions about Episode 2, and hopefully get them out of my system.
1) Artoo is a droid, and doesn't need to sleep until his batteries run down (which, judging by available evidence, takes a long time). He's been assigned security duty for a diplomat who was just the target of an attempted assasination this morning.Why was he asleep?!?
2) Does Coruscant have *any* sort of traffic control? Or do they just trust that everyone in a flying car is no danger to himself and others?
3) Why did Jango Fett decide he needed a kid? What kind of upbringing could that kid possibly have had? And how did Boba Fett really expect his mercenary bounty hunter dad to die - in his sleep? For that matter, did Jango consider that?
4) Jedi aren't really that useful, are they? They are arrogant, tend to answer your direct questions with vapid platitudes, and really can't handle more than three or four bad guys at once. In fact, Luke and Qui-Gon are the only two Jedi that I've yet seen actually complete an assigned or chosen mission.
4a) While I'm on the subject, exactly how were a couple thousand sentients with swords (admittedly keen ones, but swords nonetheless) keeping together a government of hundreds of thousands of star systems? Did everyone in the Republic (including the Sith) just decide to play nice for a thousand years until Palpatine showed up?
5) Just how loving a son was Anakin to leave his mother in slavery for 10 years? He didn't care then, why does he suddenly care now?
6) And how freaking convenient is it that Shmi survives for a month in a Tusken camp just so she'll be ready to die in her son's arms the moment he arrives?
7) Am I really supposed to belive that both protocol droids and battle droids have Plug-n-Play parts? And exactly where was C-3PO's intelligence center: head, or chest? The movie bizarrely implies both.
8) I love Samuel Jackson, but I'm curious to know exactly what Mace Windu's plan was on Geonosis? Was he making it up as he went? Why didn't he take out a few of the lead bad guys while he was standing there with a saber blade at their throats? Is he going to have a couple hundred angry Jedi apparitions keeping him up nights for a while?
9) Why is a mostly non-combatant Senator Amidala the only one to realise that a distance weapon might come in handy in the big fight?
10) Why could Yoda, regarded as the greatest Jedi warrior of legend, not defeat one aging horror movie star? And don't tell me he wasn't beaten. His mission was to stop Dooku, and he failed (and got two more wounded Jedi to clean up).That will do for noe, but I have a final comment - you have to appreciate Palpatine. Here's a man that has more backup plans than the Impossible Missions Force used to. He's agot all the peices on the board so perfectly arranged that his plan will go forward no mastter what. This takes brains.And he also has enough sense of irony to send his own Republic-conquering army in to save the last ragged remmnant of the Jedi. Style, baby.
1) Artoo is a droid, and doesn't need to sleep until his batteries run down (which, judging by available evidence, takes a long time). He's been assigned security duty for a diplomat who was just the target of an attempted assasination this morning.Why was he asleep?!?
2) Does Coruscant have *any* sort of traffic control? Or do they just trust that everyone in a flying car is no danger to himself and others?
3) Why did Jango Fett decide he needed a kid? What kind of upbringing could that kid possibly have had? And how did Boba Fett really expect his mercenary bounty hunter dad to die - in his sleep? For that matter, did Jango consider that?
4) Jedi aren't really that useful, are they? They are arrogant, tend to answer your direct questions with vapid platitudes, and really can't handle more than three or four bad guys at once. In fact, Luke and Qui-Gon are the only two Jedi that I've yet seen actually complete an assigned or chosen mission.
4a) While I'm on the subject, exactly how were a couple thousand sentients with swords (admittedly keen ones, but swords nonetheless) keeping together a government of hundreds of thousands of star systems? Did everyone in the Republic (including the Sith) just decide to play nice for a thousand years until Palpatine showed up?
5) Just how loving a son was Anakin to leave his mother in slavery for 10 years? He didn't care then, why does he suddenly care now?
6) And how freaking convenient is it that Shmi survives for a month in a Tusken camp just so she'll be ready to die in her son's arms the moment he arrives?
7) Am I really supposed to belive that both protocol droids and battle droids have Plug-n-Play parts? And exactly where was C-3PO's intelligence center: head, or chest? The movie bizarrely implies both.
8) I love Samuel Jackson, but I'm curious to know exactly what Mace Windu's plan was on Geonosis? Was he making it up as he went? Why didn't he take out a few of the lead bad guys while he was standing there with a saber blade at their throats? Is he going to have a couple hundred angry Jedi apparitions keeping him up nights for a while?
9) Why is a mostly non-combatant Senator Amidala the only one to realise that a distance weapon might come in handy in the big fight?
10) Why could Yoda, regarded as the greatest Jedi warrior of legend, not defeat one aging horror movie star? And don't tell me he wasn't beaten. His mission was to stop Dooku, and he failed (and got two more wounded Jedi to clean up).That will do for noe, but I have a final comment - you have to appreciate Palpatine. Here's a man that has more backup plans than the Impossible Missions Force used to. He's agot all the peices on the board so perfectly arranged that his plan will go forward no mastter what. This takes brains.And he also has enough sense of irony to send his own Republic-conquering army in to save the last ragged remmnant of the Jedi. Style, baby.
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Date: 2002-05-23 09:25 pm (UTC)And the way Schmi said that she could go now or whatever made it sound like she was hanging on, and might have hung on for a good while after that, becuase she wasn't ready to go until she knew everybody was okay (or whatever) and now she knew her son was grown and (okay I don't think so) handsome and she was proud and could tell him that she loved him and she could go now. Methinks that was her "I give up now." moment.
I think R2 was in a kind of sleep mode to give the Senator privacy. He did seem to have all censors running. (he was programmed to detect a humanoi/assassin intruder).
If Corsucant has traffic control, I still don't see them having any way of really controlling anything ; ) If the books held a lick of respectability anymore, they do have some control, and people mostly follow it because it's just too dangerous not to. Some people probably risk it, but the Jedi do have that fun special senses thing that makes risky stuff a little easier.
I don't buy the Jedi system either.
And army is that bad why?
A clone army, sure not that horrid. But an army in general?
Love Palpatine. He even had plans for if he died.
Jango Fett was created to be Boba Fett when Boba Fett was too young to be Boba Fett. Just because people love Boba Fett. I still stand that he was cooler when he was dead in the Sarlac pit.
Still confused why Yoda didn't ram the big falling column into Dooku's ship. That's what I would have done. Not to mention something Zaggy pointed out: that one scene invalidated Yoda's biggest advice: size matters not. He should have handled that as easily as he handled the smaller objects, therefore freeing him up to fling it at Dooku, or something. And why couldn't Obi-Wan handle that? HM? Isn't he like, Mr. Jedi behind the council?
Zaggy also pointed out that Threepio conviently took on Jar Jar's role in the battle, randomly shooting things and being comic relief. Though I pointed out that he did it better because he didn't actually hit anything important and magically solve everything (hate that).
Lastly: My biggest problem is that the whole plot hinged on an assassination plot on Senator Amidala. Why were they plotting?
Because the dumb Nemoidian had a grudge. No real reason. Yeah, she was stoping the sepratists, but Palpatine seemed to be okay with that mostly. It was just because that dork wanted her head on his desk because she messed with him before. Woo, I'm sorry, get a voodoo doll instead.
Phah. That assassination plot uncovered lots of things that Palpatine and Dooku were doing, but again Palpatine made it work to his advantage.
Rambling when I should be in bed, big move tomorrow. Night!
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Date: 2002-05-24 05:19 am (UTC)Because the dumb Nemoidian had a grudge. No real reason. Yeah, she was stoping the sepratists, but Palpatine seemed to be okay with that mostly. It was just because that dork wanted her head on his desk because she messed with him before. Woo, I'm sorry, get a voodoo doll instead.
Actually, I don't think that's the only reason. When it came to the emergency power transfer, I think she would have sliced her own arm off before giving complete power to one person. Assassination attempts are a good way to get a person out of the public eye for a little while and when the strong piece is off the board, it's much easier to manipulate the weaker ones.
"Oh, if only there were a patsy... er, person strong enough to suggest this.. you know Amidala would do it."
I love what's happening in the Galactic Senate; I thought I would fall out of my chair laughing at the "I love democracy" speech. You could almost believe what he was saying... if you didn't know how it all ended. :