Following on from Adam Fields, I'd like to add (with lots of spoilers):
- In a galaxy far, far away, missiles that release funny little robots that try to eat your spaceship are considered far more useful than missiles that, say, explode.
- Maybe the Jedi temple should just spend less time on that flashy lightsaber stuff, and more time teaching novices to “Use the Brain.”
- Dragonball Z shows up in the weirdest places these days: “Dooku! My power-level has doubled since we last fought!”
- Given how only one person made the connection between a pregnant senator and the guy who was living with her, we can assume that people a long, long time ago haven't yet worked out where babies come from.
- Clones always inherit the New Zealand accent of their parent genetic material.
- Two wookies looking sideways at each other and moaning could be considered homoerotic, but only if it were possible to tell what sex a wookie is.
- Jedi: from tortured conscience to baby-killer in sixty seconds.
- Jedi also go from ‘impossible to kill’ to ‘deer in headlights’ whenever it's convenient, so to ensure success in killing Jedi just make sure you plan to do it in a way that advances the plot.
- Using the cutesy sci-fi term ‘younglings’ over the perfectly servicable English equivalent ‘children’ makes me far less sympathetic when they're slaughtered.
- After defeating the man you loved as a brother in combat, the compassionate Jedi way is to leave him to burn alive rather than deliver the coup de grace.
- A Jedi's power to be unaffected by the heat of several million tonnes of molten rock quite obviously resides in his feet.
- ‘Because it would be cool’ is sufficient excuse for any abuse — no matter how flagrant — of continuity, the laws of physics, or just plain common sense.
Hey now. Some of us here used to like Dragonball Z.
"Deer in headlights" :D
I wrote some more about the major plot holes at http://www.netalive.org/topics/36101 :
> Palpatine: <is evil>
> Palpatine: <is more evil>
> Palpatine: <seizes emergency laws>
> Palpatine: <abolishes senate>
> Palpatine: <abolishes republic>
> Palpatine: <eats babies>
> Jedi council: The chancellor may be up to something.
> Audience: NO SHIT!
Hahaha! That is awesome! Thanks for the link, Henning.
Given how only one robot figured out - in the delivery room - that the pregnant senator was pregnant with twins, we can assume that people a long, long time ago hadn't yet discovered ultrasound.
Here's one.
So Anakin (Darth Vader) built C-3PO and R2-D2 as a child. And as we learned in episodes 1 and II, If the situation gets bad enough R2 can actually fly! He shoots jet exhaust out of his little "feet."
So in episode IV- The Next Generation, when he and C-3PO are deposited in the dessert on the barren planet one would think he would simply fly to find "Obiwan." But instead he chose to "walk" and got taken prisoner by the Jawas! If he had flown directly to Obiwan's place he never would have met Luke and Luke's family would still be alive today!