Journal Rick the Red's Journal: YASWBE* 1
* Yet Another Star Wars Blog Entry
Well, OK, journal entry. You get the point. Squiggleslash posted this, and since he's banned foes I can't reply, so I'll add my 2cents here.
One thing that bugs me is revisonist history in a fiction series. Example: the whole Effram Cockran (prob. spelled wrong, who cares?) nonesense in Start Trek. "First Contact" was explained differently in TOS: The Vulcans had been observing Humans for years, but had avoided contact because Humans were so like themselves that they scared the Vulcans a bit, as we all know. Then some Vulcan ship had an emergency and called on a Human ship for help because "it was the logical thing to do." That's the real 'First Contact' as far as I'm concerned, and there's no reason why the current producers couldn't have followed Roddenberry's lead on this.
When Lucas does it to himself, well, I don't know what to think. And I'm not talking about the additional CG FX in Ep.IV, I'm talking about R2D2 and C3PO. Lucas said they are the narrators of the story, that no major plot element occurs without one of them present to observe it. OK, George, then how do you explain why C3PO doesn't recognize Owen Skywalker in Episode IV? The creepy little droid dealers didn't wipe his memory, because later he remembers Leia and Obi-Wan. And if C3PO does somehow forget his creator and the entire family where he "grew up", which are major plot elements, then how can he serve as narrator? Also, in Ep. II Obi-Wan goes to that planet where they made the clone army (again, I'm no fanboy or I'd know the planet's name off the top of my head) -- a major plot element -- without either droid present to record what happened. Hmmpfh!
Well, at least Portman's hot, grits or not.
Back to the future (Score:2)
That was one thing I loved about the Back To The Future trillogy--every scrap of paper fit. It's much more satisfying when a story hold together or at least manages to explain the inconsistacies in some way. Sadly, most SF movies don't even come close to hanging together as well as a run-of-the-mill mystery novel has to.
--MarkusQ