Posted on 02/13/2012 8:42:27 PM PST by nickcarraway
Perhaps she promised them "Hope" and "Change."
I have to admit to having Red Letter Media as one of my guilty pleasures.
I've only half-seen a couple of episodes so far, but they were pretty good. You get to see the clones as a bit more human and less as an organic counterpart to the droid army, as they deal with the conflicts between following orders and doing what they think is the right thing.
Yes, the Midichlorians absolutely ruined the mystical connotations of the Force.
It was no longer “Do or do not, there is no try”, where belief in your abilities and a strong connection to the Force was all anybody needed to move a rock, or an entire spaceship.
Now it was “sorry, your midichlorian count just isn’t sufficient to move an object of that mass.”
Idiotic.
Oh yeah. I’ve seen all of the Plinkett reviews. When I first saw the Phantom Menace review, I was astounded at how well he nailed exactly what I’d been thinking.
And that bit he does with the background Star Trek officer asking questions about the logical flaws in everyone’s plans never ceases to send me into hysterics. I don’t even know why, it’s just damned funny.
::shudder::
I can only imagine! Meesa gonna have nightmares.
It is amazing to me how much that review has shaped my view of storytelling.
Stories should usually follow a classic narrative pattern with an protagonist people can identify with.
Characters should have defining characteristics above and beyond what they do and what they look like.
Action sequences should have an element of danger to them for dramatic tension - otherwise it is just guys dancing around with light swords knocking down special effects.
I’d be interested to know what some of the common innacuracies are. I can’t say I know enough of the details to respond to them.
The Red Tails movie was definitely historical fiction, not documentary. The plot was about a specific group of fictional flyers who happened to be Tuskegee Airmen, but but the Tuskegee Airmen as a whole were secondary.
The aerial combat scenes were spectaculaer to watch, but they were very sanitized. The Captain starts losing it over a couple of KIAs. A few bombers are shot down, but in historical accounts we normally hear about massive attrition rates for bomber uinits. The Red Tail kill to loss rates were unrealistice.
Despite the flaws, and I don’t know that they were really flaws, the movie was very good.
I know this rthread is supposed to be about Phantom Menace, but I’d rather talk about anything else.
The whole Anakin Skywalker plot was stupid, and full of holes. They end the movie with Anakin's mom still being held by the slave owner, which turns into an issue in the next episode. An organization like the Jedi couldn't be bothered to send somebody back to get Anakin's mom after they get off the planet?
To be fair, the Jedi were portrayed (intentionally or not) as arrogant and short-sighted. In fact, they fairly well deserved what they got in the end.
You owe an apology to every Basset Hound that ever lived.
I took “No, there is another” as Yoda only knew.
And OW does tell Luke after this, once he was told by Yoda. That was my take.
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