This has puzzled me.
I mean, there are LOTS of cranky things wrong with Star Wars, sure, but somehow this one seemed pretty bad to me (well, until Midichlorians came along, but I'm just trying to basically ignore the awful fan films that came after RotJ anyway).
Vader strokes Luke's lightsaber affectionately and purrs something like "You have built your own lightsaber. Your training is complete."
What?
What kind of perspective IS this, where building a lightsaber is the END of training for a Jedi? I mean, in this Universe, they build friggin DEATHSTARS (the power of which is dwarfed by the awesome power of the Force, remember?), yet building a lightsaber is somehow the finishing touch on the training of a Jedi. Jedis can make things fly around the room, they can hover, they can see in the dark, they can raise X-Wing fighters out of the mud, they can do things that make planet-destruction a fiddly bit. And yet the pinnacle of their achievement...
...the final test, as it were...
...without which they are NOT Jedi Knights...
...is to build a flashlight.
Surely in a Universe THIS powerful and varied, you can just BUY the friggin' things via mail order. I mean, we're primitive humans, but we can buy Kalishnokovs via mail order, and we can find people on the Internet who are willing to be eaten, so how hard can it be to buy a freakin' lightsaber. Wouldn't there be antique dealers who have those things? Can you see 'em on the Alderaan Antiques Roadshow: "Ah, an elegant weapon from an elegant time. This lightsaber appears nearly perfect and *whzzzz* it still works!"
Yeah.
I mean, there are LOTS of cranky things wrong with Star Wars, sure, but somehow this one seemed pretty bad to me (well, until Midichlorians came along, but I'm just trying to basically ignore the awful fan films that came after RotJ anyway).
Vader strokes Luke's lightsaber affectionately and purrs something like "You have built your own lightsaber. Your training is complete."
What?
What kind of perspective IS this, where building a lightsaber is the END of training for a Jedi? I mean, in this Universe, they build friggin DEATHSTARS (the power of which is dwarfed by the awesome power of the Force, remember?), yet building a lightsaber is somehow the finishing touch on the training of a Jedi. Jedis can make things fly around the room, they can hover, they can see in the dark, they can raise X-Wing fighters out of the mud, they can do things that make planet-destruction a fiddly bit. And yet the pinnacle of their achievement...
...the final test, as it were...
...without which they are NOT Jedi Knights...
...is to build a flashlight.
Surely in a Universe THIS powerful and varied, you can just BUY the friggin' things via mail order. I mean, we're primitive humans, but we can buy Kalishnokovs via mail order, and we can find people on the Internet who are willing to be eaten, so how hard can it be to buy a freakin' lightsaber. Wouldn't there be antique dealers who have those things? Can you see 'em on the Alderaan Antiques Roadshow: "Ah, an elegant weapon from an elegant time. This lightsaber appears nearly perfect and *whzzzz* it still works!"
Yeah.
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Parasite Eve
Sun, August 26, 2007 - 9:47 PMWell for some reason Lucus decided to rip off that whole "mitoclorian" thing from Parasite Eve. This was a game\Japanese movie about Mitochondria evolving into it's own species and using giving it's hosts incrediable powers.
