[barend]

Why did the naboo, who can breath water, bother with air filled cities?
sure, they're anphibians, but what did there race do before developing the technology to block out water with forcefields?

huh?

(this isn't so much an attack.... just more of a silly point)
but feel free to throw it on the pile...

[Despondent]

It ought to rise to the surface, shouldn't it? the oxygen must be with them.

and I'd think those killer fish could swim right in for a meal, right?

[Mnesymone]

Why do they even live underwater if they have those non-swimming beasts of burden...

In fact - how does that bigass city fit when we see Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan jump in a tiny lakey swampy thing.

[barend]

that planet has a cool liquid centre...

it goes like this:
atmosphere
crust
water

[J m HofMarN]

mmmm bowling ball with a liquid center... gaaaaahhhhh.

Akhem, anyhow. Yeah that is pretty silly. Naboo really should kind of implode or something. Maybe they modeled the planet after those fruit chews with some slime inside that poses as juice.

And the Gungans are built for land, that's easy to see. Why they live underwater I do not know. Especially if they have an army large enough to take over the planet.

[Mnesymone]

The planet has a cool liquid centre?

Tell me you're lying.

@$&@$&@$@$&@*$*@$*@^$&@^$@&*^$*@^$&*@^$*@&$^&*@^$!

Does George realise that is PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO HAVE A COOL LIQUID CENTRE - and that if a planet had a COOL LIQUID CENTRE - LIFE WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE.

Water doesn't act like that...

Speaking from a purely scientific point of view, but Lucas is a five-assed monkey for doing that...

The bastard.

[barend]

woah... i haven't seen any diagrams...
i was just saying...

but they travel through the planets core remaining in water the whole time.

Lucas has all the scientific knoldege of 2 year old...

that's retarded...

and dead...

and ground into pieces...

etc....

[ernesttomlinson]

Not only that but a liquid centre teeming with predatory animals. I just thought: isn't the scene with Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan, and Jar Jar in the "bongo" one of the most suspense-free in Episode I? They almost get chomped a couple of times but there's no real sense of danger. Compare and contrast with Han Solo's attempt to escape from the Imperial forces chasing him in Empire Strikes Back.

And that name, "bongo", along with all the other terrible names in the prequels. Lucas manages the impossible, sounding even more moronic than L. Ron Hubbard in his choice of names for people and things. (cf. Battlefield Earth and "kerbango", "goo-food", &c.)

[barend]

the asteroid music in ESB totally rocked as well during that asteroid escape...




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"kerbango", "goo-food"?

these sound like slang porn terms.

[Mnesymone]

Why would the gungans have such sophisticated yet crap transports on sea when they can swim and only have gallimimus knock-offs on land when they walk like putzes - also why have so many water repellent force fields when plain old glass is fine.

Incidentally - when the bongo loses power, why don't the shields collapse and they all die - especially Jar Jar - who should be brutally crushed by the downpour of water?

[CowboyCurtis]

Exactly! And why did a "bigger fish" conveniently come out of nowhere to help them? I think, especially with Lucas' messages of the Force being connected to Nature and all, that it would've made more sense for Qui-Gon (or whichever Jedi) to contact the slumbering giant fish to save them! Wouldn't that have made sense!?

As a sidenote, I saw a toy of the bongo and Qui-Gon Jinn in underwater gear! (scuba-like gear)... what the hell is that all about? Why have a toy like that when nothing like that ever happened in the film? Was there something else in the original script where Jinn deals with the fish himself?

[Mnesymone]

No... there was no original script.

You can tell that it was written without reference to itself by one person over a length of time so that he forgot what he was doing by the end of it.

As for Qui-Gon being able to summon giant fish - why couldn't he just send the fish coming to eat him away - also, if Jedi are that handy... why don't they realise Sidious is Palpatine... the retarded monks.

[barend]

he could have force choked it...

but ultimatley... he should have been singed to death by "red hot magma!!"

This post has been edited by barend: 12 April 2005 - 10:56 PM

[Mnesymone]

Yes... after his surfboard loses power.

Why the character of Qui-Gon was even there is beyond me... you want someone to have the same impact as Obi-Wan Kenobi - MAKE THEM OBI-WAN KENOBI.