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Post #282741

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C3PX
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The legendary "Starkiller Ranch" Thread
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Date created
16-Apr-2007, 10:26 PM
This is very possibly the dumbest argument I have ever had. Even more ironic is that both of us seem not to even be fans of ROTJ, let alone ROTS! If you hadn't come off as such an ass (and that could be a misinterpretation on my part, I only got four hours of sleep last night and my mind is pretty cloudy) in your second response, I wouldn't have even bothered replying.

Anyway, I guess it has been a while since you have seen the film, but there really isn't any way to allow for the passing of any time whatsoever. Even if you want to argue that days passed between the duel between Obi-Wan and Anakin and the moment Padme goes into labor, you still have the issue of Obi-Wan wearing the exact same burnt clothes. Even if you wanted to say that he had nothing else to change into, you have the issue of things progressing directly from the departure from Mustafar to the Bail telling Yoda they have arrived, to bell telling them to get Padme to the medical bay to "she's dying and we have to get the babies out now". If you can argue that nothing indicates the passing of time in this sequence, then I would like to tell you my theory about Leia and Chewie actually spending months, years perhaps as prisoners of Jabba before Luke finally rescues them.

I agree there are many worse problems with the PT. I have given up on them, but I still think the idea of fanediting is interesting. All I did was suggest that the Birth of Vader sequence should be excised from the film because it was weak. I don't see why you come along and make fun of me for going to "Jedi Medical school". I just don't think it fits in with the OT style of things. Above all else, what sluggo said about being poorly pulled off is the key point anyway, hence my joke about the easy-bake Sith oven thing. And that is also why the OT comes off as more believeable, because you don't have things that are as badly executed as things are in the PT. Even the awful ROTJ rescue plan makes a hell of a lot more sense than just about anything in the PT. And at least that had a cool and memorable Rancor scene in it.