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Post #1223777

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DominicCobb
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Episode VIII : The Last Jedi - Discussion * SPOILER THREAD *
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7-Jul-2018, 1:19 PM

DrDre said:

DominicCobb said:

No one hated Anakin taking about sand or turning to the dark side because of the logic of them.

Really? Padme saying she loved Anakin wasn’t believable, because it didn’t make much logical sense considering Anakin’s creepy behaviour and his other actions the story. The lack of logic obviously stems from the fact, that such a course of events would not make sense in a romance in the real world. This has been stated over, and over again in critical arguments about the romance in the PT, so your argument, that no one disliked the PT, because of lack of logic and consistency seems faulty to me. The same goes for Anakin, who almost instanteneously goes from conflicted Jedi to murdering psychopath. This also doesn’t make logical sense to many people, and has also been analyzed and discussed endlessly.

You’re attributing the logic to other issues. The problem with Anakin and Padme’s romance isn’t real world logic. The problem is a lot of other things. Cringey dialogue. Wooden acting. Inconsistent character motivations. Complete lack of chemistry. Anakin’s total lack of charm and altogether creepyness. Poorly structured sequences. Unearned emotional moments. They don’t act like real humans, sure, but that’s not a logic problem. That’s simply a baseline problem of them being human characters with human emotions that are capable of understanding on this most basic level. Not every film with a military needs to be logically sound with real world military. But if your film doesn’t feature people acting like people (unless it’s on purpose like in The Lobster or a Wes Anderson movie or something), you got some real problems.

Anakin turning on a dime isn’t bad real world logic. It’s a problem of believability of the progression of his character arc. The film paints a poor and contradictory portrait of his head space throughout, and takes a narrative short cut in terms of his motivations (which is especially problematic as he is the main character). None of this has anything to do with real world logic, just pure storytelling mechanics.