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onehandle

(51,122 posts) Fri Sep 27, 2013, 06:12 PM Sep 2013

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4 Rules to Make Star Wars Great Again

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4 Rules to Make Star Wars Great Again (Original Post) onehandle Sep 2013 OP

YES! Autumn Colors Sep 2013 #1

Good rules! MyshkinCommaPrince Sep 2013 #2

Too funny, I was never more disappointed with it Warpy Sep 2013 #3

Further, if the Jedi can't marry and/or reproduce, how is the force inherited and maintained? sarge43 Sep 2013 #11

Well, obviously the Jedi were no more celibate than the priesthood is. Warpy Sep 2013 #13

Sorry, just getting my geek freak on sarge43 Sep 2013 #14

ewoks kind of did it for me d_r Sep 2013 #4

Sooooo thelordofhell Sep 2013 #5

Why not? Could do much worse. n/t sarge43 Sep 2013 #12

I sure hope not. pam4water Sep 2013 #15

If they just got rid of Jar Jar Binks, I'd be happy. pam4water Sep 2013 #6

They did here.... Spitfire of ATJ Sep 2013 #7

Hehe poor Annie! pam4water Sep 2013 #16

Agree 100% blackspade Sep 2013 #8

K&R Kermitt Gribble Sep 2013 #9

I would add rule 5. Gore1FL Sep 2013 #10

Autumn Colors

(2,379 posts)

1. YES!

Reply to onehandle (Original post)

Fri Sep 27, 2013, 06:21 PM

Sep 2013

+1,000,000 .....

MyshkinCommaPrince

(611 posts)

2. Good rules!

Reply to onehandle (Original post)

Fri Sep 27, 2013, 08:37 PM

Sep 2013

A very positive video. I was going to respond with a youtube link for Mr. Plinkett's review of The Phantom Menace, but that seems awfully negative, now.

Warpy

(111,329 posts)

3. Too funny, I was never more disappointed with it

Reply to onehandle (Original post)

Fri Sep 27, 2013, 08:54 PM

Sep 2013

than when it turned out that the force was detectable by a blood test.

A frigging blood test.

Biggest letdown ever. You didn't need all that discipline. You just needed the right kind of goodies in your blood and it is all inherited.

Phooey.

sarge43

(28,942 posts)

11. Further, if the Jedi can't marry and/or reproduce, how is the force inherited and maintained?

Reply to Warpy (Reply #3)

Sat Sep 28, 2013, 10:33 AM

Sep 2013

Continually taking the goodies out of the gene pool, not a great idea. Would run out of potential Jedi fairly quickly, no?

Also even if they could, women don't inherit daddy's mitochondria, so half the potential Jedi gone right there. That begs the question, why aren't there more women Jedi?

Do script writers ever fact check?

Warpy

(111,329 posts)

13. Well, obviously the Jedi were no more celibate than the priesthood is.

Reply to sarge43 (Reply #11)

Sat Sep 28, 2013, 03:51 PM

Sep 2013

They just didn't marry the gal, left her holding the bag (and the baby).

Also, don't forget Leia also turned up with the right bloodwork and that there were female Jedi, although they were made up so they didn't look human.

And no, they don't check stuff that makes their brains hurt, like the niceties of genetics.

sarge43

(28,942 posts)

14. Sorry, just getting my geek freak on

Reply to Warpy (Reply #13)

Sat Sep 28, 2013, 03:55 PM

Sep 2013

"....although they were made up so they didn't look human."

d_r

(6,907 posts)

4. ewoks kind of did it for me

Reply to onehandle (Original post)

Fri Sep 27, 2013, 09:00 PM

Sep 2013

thelordofhell

(4,569 posts)

5. Sooooo

Reply to onehandle (Original post)

Fri Sep 27, 2013, 09:14 PM

Sep 2013

Make it like Firefly??

sarge43

(28,942 posts)

12. Why not? Could do much worse. n/t

Reply to thelordofhell (Reply #5)

Sat Sep 28, 2013, 11:17 AM

Sep 2013

pam4water

(2,916 posts)

15. I sure hope not.

Reply to thelordofhell (Reply #5)

Mon Sep 30, 2013, 02:36 AM

Sep 2013

Firefly is too cynical for me. And I'm a pretty cynical person.

pam4water

(2,916 posts)

6. If they just got rid of Jar Jar Binks, I'd be happy.

Reply to onehandle (Original post)

Fri Sep 27, 2013, 09:23 PM

Sep 2013

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)

7. They did here....

Reply to pam4water (Reply #6)

Fri Sep 27, 2013, 11:23 PM

Sep 2013

.....kinda....

pam4water

(2,916 posts)

16. Hehe poor Annie!

Reply to Spitfire of ATJ (Reply #7)

Mon Sep 30, 2013, 02:37 AM

Sep 2013

blackspade

(10,056 posts)

8. Agree 100%

Reply to onehandle (Original post)

Sat Sep 28, 2013, 12:53 AM

Sep 2013

Kermitt Gribble

(1,855 posts)

9. K&R

Reply to onehandle (Original post)

Sat Sep 28, 2013, 08:26 AM

Sep 2013

Especially #4!!!!

Gore1FL

(21,151 posts)

10. I would add rule 5.

Reply to onehandle (Original post)

Sat Sep 28, 2013, 10:06 AM

Sep 2013

Avoid blatant Anachronism. For example, crude catapults are not reasonable delivery systems for giant balls of energy.

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