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Post #923111

Author
ZkinandBonez
Parent topic
Childhood Misconceptions (aka The Trap Thread, but misconceptions still welcome)
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Date created
1-Apr-2016, 2:12 PM

The entirety of TPM was a “misconception” when I first watched it at the age of seven in 1999. It was the first SW film I saw and I had no clue what was going on. People rarely discuss this, but TPM never explains how the Force works despite trying to be “Episode 1”. They just kind of expect that you’ve already seen ANH or that someone’s already explained it to you.
The mind trick scene in the Otoh Gunga early in the film really confused me. I just assumed that Boss Nass was really gullible and that Qui-Gon was just very convincing. Seeing Obi-Wan Force-push battle droids out of the blue also really confused me. My seven year old self simply assumed that they slipped on something, which really wasn’t that big of a stretch with TPM’s silly humour.
The irony here is that all of these misunderstandings were cleared when I watched “Episode 4” and Ben explained everything. (That this was a huge flaw of the film did however not really occur to me until several years later.)