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I cant believe what I just read. Xenduck are you seriously saying that it is the audiences job to "find" solutions in a story? You dont think that it is the job of the storyteller to make those apparent?

But that wasnt even what I was saying. I was simply saying that Lucas made choices that were bad. And I am not "searching" for the problems. My main problem with the PT is that it just plain sucks. If Lucas hadnt written them and they werent connected to the OT which made millions of dollars no studio in the country would have put those movies out.

My detailed posts about the problems with the plot come because not in spite of me having watched the OT thousands of times.

You know what Xenduck, you might be right, that Anakin's greatness is his rapid development. That would make sense. I still say that it sucks that we never see that development come to fruition considering the PT was supposed to be the story of Anakin as a Jedi. I still say it sucks that Lucas chose to make Anakin NOT the most powerful Jedi at the close of the PT, and left it to the time gap between III and IV, which is not on screen, to reach his potential.

Like alot of my criticisms of the PT, it is not that a person CANNOT explain the inconsistencies or the actions of the characters, it is that in order to do so you have to admit that Lucas made certain choices. And I feel that for the most part those choices are not impossible but unrealistic. You gushers keep explaining the problems with these movies by saying that Lucas' choices are possible. I will concede that in most places, I am not saying that Lucas is a raving lunatic. I am saying that he made very poor choices that hurt the realism of the human story. And as usual your explanations are totally irrelevant to my criticisms.

They are all hilarious.

Reason #86
Padme's Death (Fighting the Prophecy)
When are people going to learn to stop fighting prophecies? I, for one, am getting mighty sick of it. How many more times must it happen that someone tries to fight a prophecy and ends up causing the very thing they're trying to prevent? I'm not mystified by this anymore. Sophocles may have had something pretty fresh in 450 B.C. when he wrote Oedipus, but the whole idea of trying to stop the prophecy but actually causing it to happen is a bit played out at this point. Sure, it's a classic motif (most of Star Wars is), but it makes you wonder why the Jedi are perceived as wise at all. Do any of them spend any time reading any of that stuff in their giant library?

Im sorry.