Ok, so I’m watching AotC again for the umpteenth time. Ani, Padme, and OB1 are in the gladiator arena on beastback surrounded by about 8 Destroyer Droids. They’re screwed, right? DDs cause even the best Jedis to run off because they can’t get through their shields and we’ve never seen them force-pushed either (maybe they keep ysalimari in their stomachs.)
Cut to the observation deck where Samuel L Jedi sneaks up on Dooku and Co. “This party’s over, motherfudder!” Jedis pop-up all over the arena. When next we see the trio in distress, the Destroyer Droids are gone. Why? Why didn’t they just blast the trio then turn on the other Jedi? But they aren’t seen again. The most useful weapon against a Jedi so far and they’re nowhere to be found. Whatsupwiddat?
Though, it’s one of those things that most people won’t catch (I didn’t notice, but then I’ve only seen it once) and even good directors screw up details such as this.
When Jedi Sam Jackson was doing his megaflip, all of the destroyer droids fell apart like the battle droids do at the end of Phantom Menace. Either that, or the purple lightsaber blade scared them off.
Try this on for size. After Sam Jackson says, “This party is over”, we see all the jedi light up their sabers.
One of them is Ki-Adi-Midi, the dude with the long head. Thing is, he is shown later being escorted(with the lady Jedi who has a three pronged thing coming from her head) without light sabers.
This is because they flimed a sequence where he and she went into space and shut down the power core of the robots(ala Anakin in Phantom Menace). The robots were going to shut down, the Jedi breathe a sigh of relief, then the robots were supposed to re-power up(showing that the bad guys learned in since Phantom Menace).
Not only that, but this is also the reason Mace Windu and Obi-Wan fight back to back. They are supposed to have a conversation at this point where Mace explains that they have someone working on “the situation”
Something I realized today (and you’ll have to pardon me for the hijack): Dooku told Obi-Wan that a Sith Lord was secretly controlling the Senate. Now, he lied when he said he wanted Obi-Wan’s help to defeat this menace (unless he’s a double-crosser) – but everything else was true. Does Obi-Wan believe him? Has he told the Jedi Council? How much will this plot-point drive Ep. III?
Will the Jedi turn against Chancellor Palpatine in an effort to expose his treachery? Will this give Palpatine an excuse to have the Jedi exterminated – since they are traitors against his rule? (If you criticize the Chancellor, you’re as bad as the Separatists!) Will Palpatine’s protege and bodyguard, Anakin, be convinced that the only way to defend the Republic is to hunt down the Jedi and kill them one by one?
Aw hell. I’ve already thought of a scenario more interesting than anything Lucas will come up with. It’s all downhill from here.
Shaak Ti? She’s hot! Is it wrong for me to think so? I mean she’s orange and got big horns. I don’t usually look for that in a woman but she’s done a mind trick on my weak mind.
The Twi’lek girl’s name is Aayla Secura, and she first appeared in Dark Horse Comics’ monthly Star Wars book, issue…#19, I think. Lucas liked her enough to include her in the film. (Yay, expanded universe!)
Precisely. And if the Jedi don’t know who in the Senate is being manipulated, they can’t trust anyone. This sets the Jedi in opposition to the Senate (or vice-versa). Since this would probably happen in the midst of an all-out Clone War, any prudent investigation by the Jedi Council would seem like open treason.
Why oh why do I set myself up for such disappointment?
Lucas recently stated on Entertainment Tonight that we will only see the end of the Clone War in Episode III and that the rest of the movie is a very small, charachter driven film.
"It took a year for Luke, Leia, Lando and Chewie to find out what happened to Han Solo and to plan a rescue. Seems like a long time to me. "
Actually, you have to assume travel time. And Luke’s planning the rescue and implementing parts of it might have taken quite some time. Since it involves getting Lando in as one of Jabbas stooges. Establishing Leia’s alter-ego Bounty Hunter. The Shadows of the Empire novel (which until recently was considered as much canon as the films)
Take into consideration that ESB takes place over months. So maybe that “year” in between starts at the opening of ESB and not the end.
Well you can safely assume it was alteast a few months. The Falcon had no Hyperdrive so it can safely be assumed that a signifigant amount of time lapsed.
Am I mistaken, or wasn’t Qui-Gon’s and Obi-Wan’s very first battle in TPM against those very same Destroyer Droids? And didn’t the Jedi dudes psychokinetically knock them back on their mechanical asses?
I’m not a big fan of the novel and comic-book spin-offs, cuz that’s where Chewbacca died.
