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X-Wing Mechanic
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STAR WARS: EP V "REVISITED EDITION"ADYWAN - 12GB 1080p MP4 VERSION AVAILABLE NOW
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18-Jul-2008, 8:17 PM

Although it will be several years before Adywan gets down to editing ROTS I hope he decides to cut the single most outrageous line of dialog in the whole film, namely: "Only a Sith deals in Absolutes." This line, which is itself an absolute statement (philosophical absurdity), destorys the entire mythical "wisdom" of the Jedi and renders them into New Age relativists who believe there is no Truth as such, but only "truths". In other worlds, Lucas would have us believe our "truth" is just "true" for us, and that we are locked in our respective subjectivities; therefor there can be no universal and immutable Truth which the Jedi aspire to. In this case I would argue that the Sith are more correct philosophically than the Jedi, but if we remove this nonsense one can escape Lucas' postmodern relativism.

I know that ROTS isn’t going to be started for a few years, but I thought I’d weigh in now since I doubt I will be able to keep up with these projects in the future.