QUOTE (azerty @ May 17 2005, 03:30 PM)
As for technological advancement in transport versus appearance and style, tell me A SINGLE classic car produced in the last 30 years! Or yacht, motorcycle, bicycle, train, or fighter plane either. Put a Spitfire next to a Stealth bomber and tell me which has cleaner lines.
This may be true, but I seriously doubt that anyone would have any trouble telling you which one was made more recently, regardless of which looks more elegant. The technology in the PT simply looks far more modern and advanced, no two ways about it.
The stupid thing is that I wouldn't actually have much of a problem with this if Lucas would just come out and admit it. Yes, of course a movie made in the 1990s is going to look more advanced than one made in the 1970s - so what? What annoys me is when he starts dreaming up lame, implausible excuses which only draw attention to the problem in the first place, like in Star Trek where they tried to explain why all the aliens look so much like humans.
Why does he insist on doing this, and why do people go along with it? Plenty of far better writers than Lucas have used similar 'artistic licence' in long-running series, yet at least had the guts to admit it.
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The sandpeople had women and children. We know this because Anakin killed them how could he tell? The children might be smaller but I never saw a sandperson with breasts. Did they hike their skirts and show him some leg or something?
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Also, I can see the point of wanting to kidnap a human and use her as a slave, but they didn't. They tied her to a flimsy easel for a month. It's assumed they had to feed and give her water. What for? Was she purely ornamental? I can understand them wanting the droids, you can sell those for a lot of money, but a chick who's only skills are finding non-existand mushrooms and getting randomly pregnant, you're not going to get much.
- J m HofMarN on the Sand People