{"id":116,"date":"2002-05-23T23:20:00","date_gmt":"2002-05-23T23:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/2002\/05\/23\/116\/"},"modified":"2002-05-23T23:20:00","modified_gmt":"2002-05-23T23:20:00","slug":"116","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/2002\/05\/23\/116\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so now I&#8217;m going to ask my questions about Episode 2, and hopefully get them out of my system.<\/p>\n<p><!--more My Top Ten Episode 2 Worries--><br \/>\n1) Artoo is a droid, and doesn&#8217;t need to sleep until his batteries run down (which, judging by available evidence, takes a long time). He&#8217;s been assigned security duty for a diplomat who was just the target of an attempted assasination this morning.Why was he asleep?!?<\/p>\n<p>2) Does Coruscant have *any* sort of traffic control? Or do they just trust that everyone in a flying car is no danger to himself and others?<\/p>\n<p>3) Why did Jango Fett decide he needed a kid? What kind of upbringing could that kid possibly have had? And how did Boba Fett really expect his mercenary bounty hunter dad to die &#8211; in his sleep? For that matter, did Jango consider that?<\/p>\n<p>4) Jedi aren&#8217;t really that useful, are they? They are arrogant, tend to answer your direct questions with vapid platitudes, and really can&#8217;t handle more than three or four bad guys at once. In fact, Luke and Qui-Gon are the only two Jedi that I&#8217;ve yet seen actually complete an assigned or chosen mission.<\/p>\n<p>4a) While I&#8217;m on the subject, exactly how were a couple thousand sentients with swords (admittedly keen ones, but swords nonetheless) keeping together a government of hundreds of thousands of star systems? Did everyone in the Republic (including the Sith) just decide to play nice for a thousand years until Palpatine showed up?<\/p>\n<p>5) Just how loving a son was Anakin to leave his mother in slavery for 10 years? He didn&#8217;t care then, why does he suddenly care now?<\/p>\n<p>6) And how freaking convenient is it that Shmi survives for a month in a Tusken camp just so she&#8217;ll be ready to die in her son&#8217;s arms the moment he arrives?<\/p>\n<p>7) Am I really supposed to belive that both protocol droids and battle droids have Plug-n-Play parts? And exactly where was C-3PO&#8217;s intelligence center: head, or chest? The movie bizarrely implies both.<\/p>\n<p>8) I love Samuel Jackson, but I&#8217;m curious to know exactly what Mace Windu&#8217;s plan was on Geonosis? Was he making it up as he went? Why didn&#8217;t he take out a few of the lead bad guys while he was standing there with a saber blade at their throats? Is he going to have a couple hundred angry Jedi apparitions keeping him up nights for a while?<\/p>\n<p>9) Why is a mostly non-combatant Senator Amidala the only one to realise that a distance weapon might come in handy in the big fight?<\/p>\n<p>10) Why could Yoda, regarded as the greatest Jedi warrior of legend, not defeat one aging horror movie star? And don&#8217;t tell me he wasn&#8217;t beaten. His mission was to stop Dooku, and he failed (and got two more wounded Jedi to clean up).That will do for noe, but I have a final comment &#8211; you have to appreciate Palpatine. Here&#8217;s a man that has more backup plans than the Impossible Missions Force used to. He&#8217;s agot all the peices on the board so perfectly arranged that his plan will go forward no mastter what. This takes brains.<i>And<\/i> he also has enough sense of irony to send his own Republic-conquering army in to save the last ragged remmnant of the Jedi. 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