Gaffer Tape said:Wow, I could have sworn I'd had this conversation in this same thread no less than three years ago! ^_~ But here we go again. Just to clarify: immaculate conception is not in the least the same thing as conceiving a child without a sexual partner. And now we know... and knowing is half the... sigh, that G.I. Joe movie sucked!
Holy virgin birth then. We all know from TPM that Lucas intended Anakin to be all "Son of God" and godlike and holy and oh-so-special, with massive Christ echoes. Which there was curiously zero hint of in the OT. It's all part of the same revisionist bullshit as Annie having more midichlorians than anybody and being the bestest jedi ever and being the Chosen One (and here I thought that was Buffy), complete with a goddamn prophecy, and to make this work with the OT we have to have this crap that Vader was all broken down as a force user due to his bionics. (And his bionics are why he can't use force lightning, rather than the obvious original state of things in which force lightning was special to somebody as poweful as Palps and not just any old dark sider could use it.) This was all Lucas's original story of course, which was why there was zero sign of it in the OT and why it sticks out as being at odds with mentality of the OT.
cap said:auraloffalwaffle said:
I particularly hate the Immaculate Conception idea.What immaculate conception? I always figured Shmi just got really drunk at a frat party, got knocked up, and didn’t remember the encounter.
Well, it could be that she did it with Yoda and didn't want to admit she screwed a little green guy. Or Jar Jar could have been the father. That would explain Anakin's intelligence level. I mean, the general impression you get from ROTS is that Annie turned dark because he was too damn dumb to know better.
Whiners said:Do you realize how hypocritical you're being? First you're saying how they explained things in the prequels you would've liked to imagine happen in your demented little head instead, yet now you're making it sound bad that they're making questions like that with the new prequels! There was a 16 year difference in between RotJ and TPM, why would you not want those questions answered? I think it was great the way George Lucas gave people all that time to answer them, so people could wonder for years and then finally find out the truely canon answer, than just releasing the prequels three years after RotJ. Of course, you people know nothing about being creative.
Truly canon answer? How is that garbage canon? It isn't even Star wars, let alone canon.
And how does people finding fault with Lucas's work demonstrate that they know nothing about being creative?
Gaffer Tape said:Yeah, because, you know, it's just so darned creative to make three movies that totally contradict every bit of backstory mentioned in your previous three movies to the point that you have to go back to those three movies and make changes to them to cover your ass.
God bless creativity!
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