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Force Ghosts Interacting with the Physical Realm
Obviously this is stupid, because even normal ghosts shouldn't be able to interact with physical objects, never mind magical space ghosts, but I don't really mind. It never becomes a problem in-universe, the plot never balances around the idea. Like, what else is Obi-Wan going to do? RotJ needs him to have a very long exposition dump, too long to have him just stand there and ramble on for five minutes. Yes, it takes away from the magicalness of Force ghosts when one sits on a log and casually chats with Luke, but what else are you going to do? Likewise, ghost Luke catching Rey's lightsaber when she tries to destroy it, you know what, fine. I'm going to accept that one.

Jar Jar Tongue Candy
An absolute nightmare from which there is no awakening.

Boss Nass
Boss Nass is terrible, of course, but I want to talk about his face. Every Gungan we ever see has an elongated face with like a snout except Boss Nass, who has a much more human-shaped face. He also lacks the long ear things on the back of his head, and his eyes are human-placed instead of on top of his head. Basically what I'm saying is that Boss Nass looks nothing at all like a Gungan, which makes him extra bad. Did they think that Jar-Jar's body shape couldn't be made to look comically fat? Because I'm not buying that.

Slave Girl Bikini
Boy oh boy, if there was ever one thing in the OT that Disney was not going to retain, it's the slave girl bikini. Can you imagine your female lead being enslaved by a pimp slug and turned into a trophy with a golden bikini in any other movie except Star Wars? I sort of can't. I guess there's no better way to establish that your villain is an evil sexist than to force women to dress in slave bikinis. It doesn't even make sense, given that Jabba is a slug and therefore presumably a hermaphrodite with no attraction to humans, so I'm wondering if the bikini was made to emphasize how evil he is or simply because they needed Leia to do something during that sequence of the movie.

For how completely irrelevant the slave girl bikini is to the plot, it's kind of amazing how memorable it is. It's an iconic Star Wars thing, not as famous as lightsabers and the Death Star, but about as famous as AT-AT walkers and Yoda's speech pattern, and it's only on-screen for like fifty seconds total.

The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am
I don't know, it's a good line, but I never really imagined Darth Vader as witty? I can imagine the Emperor being like "I am not as forgiving as Vader" to one of his minions, but Vader himself always comes across like he's in rage mode unless he's dealing with another Jedi.

Zurg vs Buzz Lightyear
I'm gonna level with you: I remember almost nothing about Toy Story 2. I remember the cowgirl being scared of boxes, I remember the old prospector being the villain, I remember the fat guy trying to sell them, and I remember Zurg telling Buzz that he's his father at the end of the movie. The last part I remember only because I also remember someone telling me that the TV show just ignores that part.

I guess if you're going to combine Vader and Palpatine into one character and make him more comedic, Zurg is how you do it.

Bulleyeing womp rats with my T-16 back home
I always loved this line, it encapsulates so perfectly how Luke is a dumb farmboy way out of his depth with all of this space war nonsense. It never made much sense to me that Luke was capable of flying an X-Wing, where the hell did he learn that skill, but it's fine.


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Started: July 6, 2005