The Phantom Menace - general discussion thread — Page 11

ray_afraid said:

TV's Frink said:

WhatsMyName said:

AT least i can get a hard on. :p

What?

I think he's tryin' to say his milkshake brings all the boys in the yard.

I think I know what he's trying to say, I'm just struggling to connect it to anything in this thread.

EDIT: nvm, found it.  :-/

WhatsMyName said:

Wexter said:

WhatsMyName said:

Wexter said:

WhatsMyName said:

 Storm Troopers weren't Clones. They were new recruits trained by them.

Please tell me where in the movies is this established.

 EU. That's only if u keep up with it.

 

Yeah well, lets just assume that I am an average movie fan who has no time or interest in reading through all of those attempts to make up for Lucas' errors. If he indeed wanted his audience to know that stromtrooper != clonetrooper, a simple line about new recruits being trained spoken by pretty much anyone anywhere in ROTS (exept for that young padawan before he gets killed, that would be a bit out of place) would easily establish that.

 Well, that's your loss then isn't it?

Hardly. I honestly don't care about anything prequel related, but lets assume George tried to make these films for a broad audience, not just himself and that Rick MacGollum guy who is convinced Lucas found cure for cancer. I am merely arguing (once again, just 'cause that's what I do best) that he failed miserably (once again).

Well, when you stick with just the movies, there's no way to explain that. You would be at a loss at what happens in btween episodes three and four. So you would be right there. But if you allowed your self to expand a little beyond the movies, you'd find things make a lot more sense.

EU writers - the Bizarro Langoliers* of the SW Universe.



*Stephen King fans should get this reference.

WhatsMyName said:

But if you allowed your self to expand a little beyond the movies, you'd find things make a lot more sense.

It's not about "allowing" so much as "not wasting time."  I have so many other things I'd much rather consume and not much time to do it in.

Thanks Frink, you said it for me. The movies should make enough sense on their own, EU should only be a bonus material that expands around it, not a tool to retcon errors.

Not a bad lurker name to boot.

Wexter said:

Thanks Frink, you said it for me. The movies should make enough sense on their own, EU should only be a bonus material that expands around it, not a tool to retcon errors.

 But they don't. Even the OT didn't. If you wanted to get the full idea of the PT or OT you needed to read the EU or at the very least do a breif overview of it.

Yeah, didn't you know that Yoda had a back injury when he was chopping some trees with his little lightsaber on Dagobah, and that's why he didn't use it in the OT?

God, you guys should know this already. ;)

WhatsMyName said:

 But they don't. Even the OT didn't. If you wanted to get the full idea of the PT or OT you needed to read the EU or at the very least do a breif overview of it.

You really should use a winky after all of your posts. You know, just in case.

My favorite part of the entire OT is during Star Wars, near the end, when the rebel pilots get "breifed" about the Death Star.

It was so much better than any part of TPM*

I'm just going to drop the subject. I'm not getting through to you apparently. '

Anyways.....