DeaconBlues (imported) wrote: Sun Oct 07, 2012 9:17 am Odd, I was just thinking about the Star Wars movies. Like all movies, all the sequels and prequels released after the original just got worse and worse. It was like the writers were trying to make it even more politically correct, child friendly, earth friendly (or ecosystem friendly)... Honestly, the original was good, but they went down hill quickly with each new movie.

SUPPOSEDLY, the whole saga was clear in George Lucas's mind when he wrote and released the first book... But, there are a LOT of things that just don't add up, one or two for example....

IF Jedi knights are supposed to be some super disciplined order of super-beings, and they are all so well trained in the use of "The Force," why was the promising and up-and-coming Anakin Skywalker so easily decieved and turned by the Sith? I know, the typical teenager has bouts of traitorous thinking, questioning authority and all that, but in real life, the VAST MAJORITY of real traitors are senior levels elders (e.g. Robert Hansen, Kim Philby, Aldrich Ames, etc. etc.), not fanatically dedicated teenagers who if anything, tend to be zealots for their chosen cause and are all but begging for a chance to become martyrs (and thereby teen idols) for their cause.

ANOTHER EGREGIOUS "just could not happen that way..." situation: in the first Star Wars movie, the evil Darth Vader captures the near perfect Princess Leah. On board the "Death Starr" she is tortured and coerced into giving away the secret location of the rebel base... Yet later we find out that she is in fact Darth Vader's daughter...BUT this super evil Darth Vader fellow, you know, the one who is so strong in the ways of "The Force?" Yeah, that guy could not detect his OWN DAUGHTER right there in front of him? But yet, when he had his little sword fight with Luke, he DID know, and so did Luke "know" that was his father who had just cut his hand off.... "Look into your heart, you know it is true." And later, as Luke escaped from his certain death hanging outside the "City in the Sky," and Darth Vader watched the Millenium Falcon evade the best shots in the Imperial Storm Troopers Air Force, Darth sensed his son on board the Falcon... All this "sensitivity" bullshit and he could not tell that Princess Leah was his own fucking daughter when he had her there on the Death Star... And yet when he was in the sword fight with his son, he was able to invade Luke's memory and found out "the IS another..." I am sorry, but the continuity and plausibility just got over loaded for me.

I know, I might seem a bit cynical, but really, so much "sci-fi" movies and TV is just such bullshit. Even when I was a child, watching Captain Kirk fighting the Klingons, I was saying to myself - "there can be no sound or noise in the vacume of space, so why so many sound effects when the Enterprise fires it's "phasers" and "photon torpedoes?" And just HOW IN THE HELL was it that all the "newly discovered" races and civilizations that Captain Kirk encountered learned to speak "Earth Standard English" so perfectly? Everyone, the Klingons, the Romulans, the "Talosians" and all of them, spoke clearly and without accents, no need for linguists or interpreters when zooming across the galaxy, but yet here on little old planet earth we have numerous different languages among our own human race. In all the Star Trek movies and series that I watched, I only recall TWO INSTANCES where linguistic differences where touched upon, both of them in "The Next Generation" involving Captain Piccard. Again, plausibility and believability are just pushed too far. While I do like to watch good sci-fi, I am continuously feeling insulted by the stupid "sounds" in space, the presumption by ALL sci-fi writers that aliens are so so so similar to earth humans and already know how to speak "Earth Standard English."