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Post #312575

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C3PX
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Why do PT defenders and such keep claiming the OT was badly written as well ?!
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5-Mar-2008, 4:59 PM
Originally posted by: Puggo - Jar Jar's "Yoda"

"flyboy" reminds me of "ex-squeeze-me"


Really? I don't see the connection.

I guess we don't really use the term "flyboy" anymore, but at the time it was an appropriate word for a pilot like Han. It may be dated, but I don't really find anything urking about the line.

"Ex-squeeze-me" on the other hand, besides being a really urking drive-spikes-into-my-ears painful line spoken in an annoying way by an awful character, the term itself is a 90s pop culture reference from Wayne's World. After hearing Jar-Jar Say Ex-squeese-me I half expected Anakin to be ask Padme "Do I make you horny baby?" and for Yoda to start screaming some nonsense about a van down by the river.

But sure, not everyline in the OT was pure poetry, but even Shakespeare's work suffers from less than perfect dialogue at times (we just don't notice it because we are taught that Shakespeare is the definition of perfect writing).