And now, the other side: Things that bug you about Star Wars.

Yeah, but Wolverine has cooler hair, All Luke has is that 70’s Corvette Summer do.

So, Wolverine wins.

Um, “lightspeed” isn’t really “lightspeed”-it’s just a slang term. It’s called “hyperspace.” (Aren’t there some scientists who study hyperspace?)

I think the blaster shot that hit Leia only grazed her arm.

And you lose–wrong thread!

Guinastasia, I agree with you in regards to Leia’s blaster hit. Only grazed her. Han’s hand on the other hand–that was full contact.

Here’s what went wrong between the Good 3 and the Bad 2:

In the Good 3, we’ve got Han Solo, Chewie, Obi-Wan and the droids: interesting characters with distinct personalities and/or good lines. We also have Luke & Leia, who are stiff, wooden and/or whiney.

In the Bad 2, they’re all gone. Replaced by more stiff, wooden and/or whiney characters.

And in the case of Han, good hair. You’ve got to remember the good hair.

make one little mistake
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jsc1953: They weren’t all replaced. Obi-Wan was in the “bad” two. In fact, the only film I liked him in was Episode II. In that, he was a cool adventure hero. In the other films, he was either a confused dolt, or a pedantic, lying coot.

NoClueBoy–[Krusty]I kid! I kid 'cause I love.[/Krusty] I didn’t make any jokes about your user name, though!! :wink:

He was also good in Down With Love as Catcher Block, Man’s man, Ladie’s man, Man about town.

I also think that the “Vader murdered your father” line, which was later revealed to be a lie so Luke and Vader could have that wonderful “Luke. I am your father.” “NOOOOO!” exchange was a mistake in the first show.

They made a good go at fixing that one, though, so it’s not a huge nit for me.
But, I bet Lucas didn’t plan that until after he started to work on ESB.

What do you think?

Yeah, I’ll second this… That scene seemed pretty contrived – “But we’d be forced to live a lie…”

What lie? What’s wrong with hooking up? You’re still a senator, he’s still a Jedi, what’s the freaking lie? Tell people you’re hooking up and they can just deal with it.

(And while this outfit didn’t do it for me, I must admit that I really liked her torn arena outfit…! :D)


And then there’s the marketing of the Episode II DVD, a commercial inflicted upon humankind with no thought of mercy or compassion.
“Who Da Man? Yoda Man!”

I want retribution. I want satisfaction. I want the responsible party’s head on a platter.

No, he’d be kicked out of the Jedi Order if he got married.

But didn’t he get married at the end of ATOC? Does this mean he has to turn in his Jedi tie tack and label pin now?

Maybe he could just skip the marriage, and keep her as a bit of senatorial fun on the side… :smiley:

Well, you see, they’re setting him up for the required plot point in ep III of hunting down the Jedi.

Which was a good plot point, untill they ruined it by casting N’Synch/98degrees as a young pre-Darth Anikin.

But I liked the pedantic, lying coot. Or rather, I liked Sir Alec Guinness. And he’s either (a) lying, or (b) Lucas made stuff up as he went along and didn’t give a rat’s ass about continuity. I’m going with (b).

Here’s my biggest deal about Jedi…

In Star Wars I, Lucas established that it is some type of chemical (midi-whatisthat?) which affects how senstitive one is to the Force. Luke, because he is Vadar’s son, is therefore a powerful Jedi because his father is.

If Jedis are not allowed to marry, where does young Jedis come from? Aren’t they elminating potential Jedi population?

I don’t think it was a mistake per se, but I agree with jsc1953 that Lucas made this bit up as he went along. A lot of stories do this, which is fine with me, but you have to take the characters for what they are then, and you can’t excuse them because of the actions of their writers.

I liked Alec Guinness too, but I wish that he had been given the role of the EpII Obi-Wan aged 35 years instead of what he had. “Who’s the more foolish?” What a jerk. :stuck_out_tongue:

The changing of “The Force” from “zen-like harnessing of a universal force through practice” to “Scientifically calculable genetic coding that increases the ability to have astoundingly dumb luck.”

The change from exotic aliens with indisitinct and unusual dialects to aliens with identifiable ethnic origins (What’s next, “Greedo Gonzales”?)

Using American comedian Greg Proops as the dual headed commentator for the pod race, the voice just bugs me.

The astoundingly clitoral design of the platoform where Count Dooku and the Fett’s watch the Jedi battle in Pt II.

The man who gave us the Tie-Fighter, X-Wing and Millenium Falcon et al. Has the villain of Part II escaping from the Repulican army on a flying Vespa.

Yoda’s “Around the survivors a perimeter create”

Finally, I hate the fact that many millions of dollars are being spent to give us what is three movies of essentially pointless backstory. So the catalyst for the Empire was a trade dispute, great, put that in as a paragraph of expositionary dialogue in the first film, but for God’s sake don’t waste our time by showing us people arguing in parliament. Besides, doesn’t finding out the Annakin story ruin the big payoff of Empire?

The most entertaining thing for me in Episode Two was something related to this. There was the controversy about the Trade Federation people being Asian stereotypes with the accents, then the one about Jar-Jar and black/slave stereotypes… and then some people complained that Watto was supposed to be Jewish. The last one amused me by itself. THEN came his appearance in Episode Two. Watto appears only briefly… and he’s got a beard, and is wearing something that looks a good deal like a yarmulke. I’m surprised I didn’t have a fatal aneurysm from laughing so hard. :smiley:
You can see a picture here if you scroll down.

Ooh, we have a serious candidate for “worst line ever” in here: “No matter what universe you’re from, that’s gotta hurt.” UGH.

That dead people evaporate and there are no remains to bury!

Wrong series! There are lots of corpses in Star Wars.