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Topic	The Phantom Menace is somehow WORSE than I remembered.
Jeff Zero 12/14/17 3:41:43 PM #295:	Humor -- real wit, even -- exists in 4 through 7 and R1 and it's definitely a good reason to watch those movies. I mean, yeah, I'd stop short at pitching them strictly because they can be funny. But man, the older I get, the funnier 5 becomes. (In a good way.) banananor posted... Jeff Zero posted... I see we've eclipsed "true fan" debate with "true Jedi" the only way the 'prophecy' at the core of the series makes any sense is if you think the old jedi order kinda sucked, and the jedi had lost their way by being too dispassionate so anakin ~~brought 'balance' by wiping the slate clean and allowing luke to start over. granted, this is all wiped away by the sequels, so who knows.~~ The prophecy is core to the prequels in which it's introduced and a big noisy never-explained mess I wish didn't exist and always forget about by the time Darth Vader boards Leia's ship, heh. But eh. Yeah. If it were done ten times more competently I'd have similar thoughts and interpretations as you do. I mean I guess I still do but I just don't even think about it once I get to the good movies. --- http://bestanimations.com/Sci-Fi/Babylon5/babylon5-animated-gif-8.gif http://i.imgur.com/iqEc2Wk.gifv <cite>Jeff Zero posted [p:892217510] in The Phanto... [t:76066954]...</cite> <quote>Humor -- real wit, even -- exists in 4 through 7 and R1 and it's definitely a good reason to watch those movies. I mean, yeah, I'd stop short at pitching them strictly because they can be funny. But man, the older I get, the funnier 5 becomes. (In a good way.) <cite>banananor posted...</cite> <quote><cite>Jeff Zero posted...</cite> <quote>I see we've eclipsed "true fan" debate with "true Jedi"</quote> the only way the 'prophecy' at the core of the series makes any sense is if you think the old jedi order kinda sucked, and the jedi had lost their way by being too dispassionate so anakin brought 'balance' by wiping the slate clean and allowing luke to start over. granted, this is all wiped away by the sequels, so who knows.</quote> The prophecy is core to the prequels in which it's introduced and a big noisy never-explained mess I wish didn't exist and always forget about by the time Darth Vader boards Leia's ship, heh. But eh. Yeah. If it were done ten times more competently I'd have similar thoughts and interpretations as you do. I mean I guess I still do but I just don't even think about it once I get to the good movies. --- http://bestanimations.com/Sci-Fi/Babylon5/babylon5-animated-gif-8.gif http://i.imgur.com/iqEc2Wk.gifv</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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