[/QUOTE]Jar Jar Binks to become a Senator.[QUOTE]
Another reason why the prequels stink.The Star Wars database claims that Jar Jar is a rare example of an 'honest' politican. What makes this so stupid is the fact the every single politician in history and currently is a cheat. Anything coming near an 'honest' politician would have his career strangled and torn down like a condemned shack. There's no way he could have made it anywhere, let alone be one for a full ten years (or was he brand new? I don't know).
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fourteen-year-old elected queens
I remember when I was 14 years old very well. myself and every other 14 year older around me were probably the single most immature bunch of nitwits on the planet. I could barely get myself off the PC to do some important work and studying, and same went to almost everyone else. Just how could a 14 year older possibly do anything other than screw things up?
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a Senate which allows the Trade Federation to have its own army
Even though it wasn't mentioned in the movie, I read somewhere that private armies were extremely common in many areas, so their 'voices can be heard -- or at least, not silenced quickly'. How's that for lame writing? It almost looks like they're not in a senate or union, but some kind of mafia or UN.
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Like everything else in the prequels, he makes up all this stuff as he goes along because he's not a good enough writer to think of anything better.
When I was 16 till halfway my 18th year, my story writing was essentially that -- going along with no direction and only a skeleton worth of pre-planning. Now, at age 20 (actually, I started it at age 19), I've decided to have a mor thorough plan of every story I intend to write. Not only will it be more entertaining to my readers, but it'll also remove the feeling of embarassment that I might get in later years as I look back at some of my older writings, which I tend to feel from time to time.
George Lucas, however, is very different from this. Being an aging man in his 50's, and having been making movies ever since 1970, I would think that he would learn the lessons that I learned far earlier than that and more properly. But I guess even a sucker like me can write something better... and when I'm 50, I'll bet I can do a far better job than him!
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The hero's are the Jedi, this mystical group of paladins, holy knights ripped pretty much straight from a D&D game.
Not exactly. George Lucas modeled the Jedi after Japanese Samurai when he lived there somewhere in the mid 70's. Even the word 'Jedi' is derived from some Japanese word for something, but I just can't remember it.
Oh, BTW, as for Paladins, you should know that Paladins in D&D are normally modeled after 'holy' warriors of the Middle Ages. In some games they follow the code of a certain god or divine being as their idea of good. In the Quest for Glory game series, Paladins are 'Goodie two-shoes', the 'hero of heroes' and some other stuff. They presumably have to do everything the 'right' way regardless of whether it's legal or not. It's a pretty long subject, and I really don't have all that much time to discuss it (not to mention not being in the mood anyway).
Anyhow, as a historic note, Real Life Paladins were any of the 12 peers in King Charlamagne court back in the 8th century. One Paladin was even responsible for pushing the Islamic invaders of Europe out of France at the battle of Tours.