This just in: episode 1 plot full of holes
Last night on the tweeters (chigmata) I made reference to watching episode 1 as part of Spike’s STAR WARS marathon. I suggested that Qui Gon’s time and energy might have been better spent finding someone not resistant to Jedi mind tricks to change his 20,000 republic credits into a more easily exchanged local currency.
Concern #2
It occurred to me this morning that if Watto is supposed to have been a shrewd and calculating businessman. He should have been suspicious of the peculiar offworlder who was flaunting large amounts of strange currency while demonstrating the abilities of a Jedi. “Surely knowledge of this man’s presence here is worth something to the right people,” he might have thought to himself. And surely his trade in salvage might have led him to operate as a fence for stolen parts. This underworld connection would have made the right people be the Hutts. Would a Hutt be interested in learning that there was a Jedi operating on his planet without invitation? Certainly. Handsome reward to follow.
I can understand why Watto didn’t do this immediately. He thought he was about to win a ship in a one-sided bet with some dumb foreigner. This does not explain why he didn’t take action after he lost the bet. He even said that he believed himself to have been swindled. He could have turned them in, taken the ship, and reclaimed his prize slave mechanic. And he had all incentive to do this as he had just “bet every on Sebulba” and lost.
Also, how did Anakin recognize Qui Gon’s lightsaber? Does a junk dealer’s slave on Tatooine have great occasion for observing Jedi and inspecting their equipment?
And I still don’t like that the Clone Wars were clones fighting droids instead of clones fighting clones. Why did the droids have to speak out loud to communicate with each other? They were all linked to the command ship in orbit, so they’re all part of the same network. Let them communicate wirelessly so that instructions are relayed instantly. And why did battle droids have to pilot those little flying sleds? Aren’t those droids too? Can’t they pilot themselves?
I guess what I’m saying is that the Clone Wars would have been better executed as Clones vs Cylons.
I’m sure there’s more to come. I’m going to be in the car for another 3 1/2 hours; the next thing I’m going to do as soon as I finish writing this will be reading Crimson Empire Volume 2, so STAR WARS will be on my mind for a fair bit of time today.
I had to write this post twice because Tumblr app still won’t save drafts. It’s been so long since that morning of disc gold in Royal Oak that I had forgotten. Naturally, I didn’t hesitate to blast over to Wikipedia to look up “alum” after Mom asked what it was upon seeing a group of condos called Alum Springs or some other stupid name. Tumblr needs to patch it back in soon or else I will migrate back to allportauthority.org. Anyone know if there’s a way to have wordpress post Facebook updates when new posts are published? I know it tweets, but I want wall posts too for the chance at larger readership. Although, if you’ve made it this far into this post you’re part of a dedicated few.
As you were.
