Well, yeah. But still. Lucas lost his brain somewhere through years. Did he cast an 8-year-old as R2D2?
No, because the part is TOO SUBTLE for an 8-year-old.
Also, while we're complaining about the prequels, what in the WORLD was up with Chewbacca suddenly being a ******* prince of the Wookies? That is revisionist ******** at its worst.
For all you know he was always prince of the Wookies, and everytime it happened to come up the characters were offstage. I bet that's all they talk about when the camera's not on them.
Look, it's a movie, not an actual world. Nothing actually happens off stage, it's all pretend. If anything actually matters, it will occur in front of the camera.
Star Wars is not some documentary of a real armed conflict in space from long, long ago. Some some director didn't edit together some film of real events and left something out.
You probably believe that Leia was always planned to be Luke's sister. That kiss in Star Wars? Totally chaste.
No, you expect too much. It's only a movie. People change stories as they go along, as they think of new cool stuff to stick in there. Like midichlorians or purple light sabers.
I want internal consistency. Period. I don't care if it's Lost (where the time travel addition to the storyline was destructive) or Star Wars (midichlorians? Why would that have not come up in the originals if it were important? Darth Vader made ******* C-3PO? REALLY? and knew R2? And Obi-Wan saw all this? AND Obi-Wan never commented that he had known 3PO and R2, WHO EVEN HAD THE SAME NAMES, in his previous existence as a Jedi?).
Also, R2D2 can't fly. That's just stupid. Did he somehow lose the ability to fly? A flying R2 would have been pretty damned handy out there on Jabba's barge when Han was falling into the Sarlac pit.
Okay, well maybe that part stopped working.
But how come no OTHER R2 unit in the freaking galaxy can fly either? Stupid.
At least there was no time travel in the prequels. Just lots of cartoon robots who said unnecessarily cute/silly things, like "Roger roger." What is the freaking point of that?
I think you're thinking about Episode 1. Actually, I'm sure you are.
ReplyDeleteWell, yeah. But still. Lucas lost his brain somewhere through years. Did he cast an 8-year-old as R2D2?
ReplyDeleteNo, because the part is TOO SUBTLE for an 8-year-old.
Also, while we're complaining about the prequels, what in the WORLD was up with Chewbacca suddenly being a ******* prince of the Wookies? That is revisionist ******** at its worst.
For all you know he was always prince of the Wookies, and everytime it happened to come up the characters were offstage. I bet that's all they talk about when the camera's not on them.
ReplyDeleteLook, it's a movie, not an actual world. Nothing actually happens off stage, it's all pretend. If anything actually matters, it will occur in front of the camera.
ReplyDeleteStar Wars is not some documentary of a real armed conflict in space from long, long ago. Some some director didn't edit together some film of real events and left something out.
You probably believe that Leia was always planned to be Luke's sister. That kiss in Star Wars? Totally chaste.
No, you expect too much. It's only a movie. People change stories as they go along, as they think of new cool stuff to stick in there. Like midichlorians or purple light sabers.
ReplyDeleteExpect too much?
ReplyDeleteI want internal consistency. Period. I don't care if it's Lost (where the time travel addition to the storyline was destructive) or Star Wars (midichlorians? Why would that have not come up in the originals if it were important? Darth Vader made ******* C-3PO? REALLY? and knew R2? And Obi-Wan saw all this? AND Obi-Wan never commented that he had known 3PO and R2, WHO EVEN HAD THE SAME NAMES, in his previous existence as a Jedi?).
Lost, yeah.
ReplyDeleteDid you know Julie Bowen was in Lost?
You're lost if you think I know who Julie Bowen is. Was?
ReplyDeleteAlso, R2D2 can't fly. That's just stupid. Did he somehow lose the ability to fly? A flying R2 would have been pretty damned handy out there on Jabba's barge when Han was falling into the Sarlac pit.
ReplyDeleteOkay, well maybe that part stopped working.
But how come no OTHER R2 unit in the freaking galaxy can fly either? Stupid.
At least there was no time travel in the prequels. Just lots of cartoon robots who said unnecessarily cute/silly things, like "Roger roger." What is the freaking point of that?
I'm getting all riled again.
I don't think fighting with a lightsaber that has blades coming out of both sides would really be an advantage over a regular lightsaber.
ReplyDeleteBut it looked cool. Easily my favorite scene in all the prequels, and maybe in the whole series. Great music, choreography, and drama.
You make it sound like Cats. Only with great music and drama.
ReplyDeleteJulie Bowen is the mom in Modern Family. The blonde one.
ReplyDeleteI like her husband and her son, they are great characters.