Shanerjedi:

I understood it when I was 9.

As I did when I was seven. I think we've truly crossed over the line of audiences filling in the blanks for themselves in mainstream cinema. And I'm afraid we'll never step back across that line.

I remember way back in 1992 with Alien 3 - pre-internet, mind - when people were whining about how the alien eggs at the beginning got onto the Sulaco.

Why don't we just throw a voiceover onto Star Wars to explain original-Blade Runner-style and be done with it...

LUKE

(pensive, rasping)

I just knew the fall would have broken

that armour. All we needed now was

one of our boys to finish her off...

*rolls eyes*