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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: 2002-05-24 06:19 am (UTC)1) Artoo was more in screen-saver mode, probably. Besides, Amidala was bait -- it's hard to be a convincing bait-person if your amazing droid has the halogens on and is scurrying about the room. :)
2) No, but much like New York traffic if you know the metal ballet, it's easier to drive in it.
3) Why does anyone want a kid? You want companionship and someone you can teach the things you know to. In a purely biological sense, you want to get your genes into the system; now, normally you do that by mixing with someone else, but obviously bounty hunters just don't have the time for that. As for Boba, you have to figure he knew his father would die at some point -- just not by Sam Jackson slicing his head off.
4) By being the stick occasionally held over systems' heads and by being a negotiations force. All the systems have their own police and armies, so most internal things can be handled that way. If it threatened to get larger, their beef was brought to the Senate. If that still didn't work, then you send in the guys with the glowy swords.
5) I think he did want to go back, but just couldn't. Plus, since she was only in the major danger over that last month, there wasn't the "I must go get her now now now!" drive.
6) Convenient. Plot-convenient. I'm guessing that it was more poignant to the writers than having her be turned around and be all dry in a Psycho-like moment.
7) Um, yes. And personally, I think his brains were in the seat of his pants, but I've never liked C3PO.
8) I think he was intending on just getting Obi-Wan out of a cell; I don't think he intended on finding an arena full of bugs. And no, I don't think there were that many Jedi ghosts; from what we've seen only the most powerful get to be ghosts. As for why not kill all of the ones there... well, killing the Trade Federation heads is an intergalactic incident (something not done if you're supposed to be the peace-keeping side) and killing Dooku... I don't think he could have. From what we've seen, Dooku is the only direct student of Yoda's we've met. He must have been quite a talented child to get Yoda interested. As a side note, I liked the way Christopher Lee just looked at Sam Jackson with the "I have no time for you; go elsewhere and play" look. :)
9) Because she didn't have a nifty glowy sword? I figure this is where Leia gets her marksmanship skills and inclination to pick up any random blaster laying around. :)
10) First off, no being down on Christopher Lee. :) Sure the man is 80, but he still was more fun than almost anyone else in the film. As for Yoda, I don't consider it beaten; I consider it a draw, since without the column and wounded Jedi he probably would have kicked his former apprentice's behind. (Oh, and Mary, if Yoda had dropped the big column on Dooku's ship there would have been no Death Star plans, no Death Star, and no main trilogy. :D ) Plus, there wouldn't have been two wounded Jedi if Anakin hadn't run in there like an idiot.
And I do appreciate Palpatine; he took 20 years to slowly get everything into position. He didn't even have to work that hard to get people to come to the conclusions that he wanted. I look forward to seeing what's in store for the final film
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