QUOTE (Madam Corvax @ May 17 2005, 05:10 AM)
Why do you have to do this? Why not just admit this is sloppy writing? Why not think for yourself, boyos, instead of just accepting the processed food of propaganda? Accept that Lucas in no fecking God, he is just a guy who can't write and whatever he writes is not a Scripture anyway?
See, that drives me apeshit, too.
For any legitimate complaint anyone can come up with about Lucas's stupid ideas, there's always someone to defend it. Lucas apologists can stretch logic to the far reaches of the galaxy to make some inconsistency or blatant contradiction in the prequels "fit."
I would be willing to make a few concessions here and there, if it were only one or two minor discrepancies. But Lucas toys with major plotlines and concepts and tries to retro-engineer them. I realize all too well that fiction is about willing suspension of disbelief, but willing suspension of disbelief only works when the unbelievable is
made believable. It's not a free-for-all where any explanation is as good as any other.