Friday, January 27, 2006

Star Wars - Battle of The Discrepencies

What's up with all the plot holes and discrepencies between all the movies?
Is it not possible to do a mental check when writing scripts?
I must say I was impressed with Episode 3 as a return to the darker side of the Star Wars Saga. But really, Could not episode 1 and episode 2 been combined into 1 movie
so we could see more of the clone wars in a non animated version?

But here's the list of problematic story lines:
  • In Episode 3 Revenge of The Sith Luke and Lea's mom dies right after they are born
  • In Episode 6 Luke asks Lea if she remembers her mother- Her Real Mother to which she answers "Bits and pieces she died when I was really young" I'll say she did. LOL (or truely sad really)
  • Vader has princess Leah in his possesion but cannot for the life of him sense her powerful connection to the force whether latent or not it still should be sensed. Especially if he can sense that from Luke when he's 200 feet away in seperate space fighter ships. Had he sensed this he'd have tried to turn her to the darkside.

There's more but I'll have to relook at the movies before coming back to this section


I'm also always left disapointed when I watch a Jedi Go out like a sucker the way they all did in episode 3. I mean where's the clarivoyance? Where are the Jedi Senses? Where are the Jedi Defense Skills? Where's the Force Wave and the the Jedi Mind Tricks?

So much in their arsenal and instead they went out like suckers. We hear about how powerful Jedi are, the original trilogy made luke look very weak. I always thought this after all master yoda wouldn't have a problem defeating a Rancor and neither would the older Vader. Use the force sweep it off it's feet, make it choke, Force wave etc... Suspend it in the air as you use the force to open the gate etc... Luke doesn't use his head (too old when he began training)

Yes they were caught by surprise by the sudden change of alliance of their troops but still they should sense the intentions and the danger the second it happens. They should still give each one a good fight before going out. Hell they should be able to at least take out as many troopers as little dude padawan learner did at the Jedi Temple. and had the kid been smart he'd have kept taking out their ankles and finished the job so he could survive as well.

The Two Clone Wars Animated Series DVDs
do what the movies didn't- They showed the true potential of what a jedi and what a sith could do in dire situations and in battle. Their cunning their abilities etc...
I'm seeing alot of the same... Jedi's who just think with their lightsabres why did several jedi including a master have problems defeating General Grevious when Master Windu simply chose to use the force to Crush in His Chest Plate and Master Obi Won simply used force wave to slam him into a wall? Are Jedi really mindless creatures that crack under pressure?

The Video Games Give a Much Deeper Look
Into the Star Wars universe than the movies ever could. The Video Games like Star Wars Knights of The Old Republic (One and Two) Show what a Jedi is truely capable of doing. Just how difficult it may be to go against a Jedi.

But the games brought about another frustration, Why would the Jedi only have 11 forms? Thats crazy- In Shaolin By Brown belt alone were already at over 30 forms. Black Belts have over 40 forms, Second Blacks and above could well have over 100 forms in their repertoir. And the Grand Master over 900 Fighting Forms each one much more sophisticated and deceptive than the straight forward fighting forms the jedi learned in the game. Granted it's a game but it could have been "These are the forms we have time to teach you."

I know Lucas Borrowed alot from the Shaolin Monks. That was one of my theories due to the massive similarities: The Sacking of the Temple and Destruction of all the Monks Save 5 that escaped to rebuild the Shaolin Order again. The CHI (The Shaolin Equivilant of the Force) Which allows a regular human to become more than that. Iron Bone training and Chi together allow them to sustain greater blows and achieve almost super human feats of strength and speed. The Degree of skill and the ability to take on legions of troops armed with less sophisticated weapons. History has it that 13 monks armed with just their double ended staff were able to defeat and hold back a whole legion of troops.

My theories on the similarities between Jedi and Shaolin Monks were later verified by the Documentary The Science of Star Wars Which ended up having a huge section devoted to the Shaolin Monks and how Lucas used them as a basis for the theory of the Jedi Peaceful but effective warriors.

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