Oh, and alien races must have one single set of common characteristics, with only the slightest variation between them. Bothans are great spies, are they? How did they become a space-faring nation when all Bothans were just spending all of their time spying on each other?

g.man wrote:

It's a small thing, and it applies to a lot of sci-fi, but Star Wars is probably the main offender, and this really grinds my gears. The scale of planets. Planets in Star Wars consist of either one city, or if it's a backwater like Tatooine, a couple of towns...and that's it. Now I don't know if anyone has noticed, but planets are actually pretty fucking big, and this pisses me off.

Oh I really hate that, but I've come to live with it.  Same with games, but at least for that it has to be limited because dev time and tech limits etc.  Like towns and village consist of just a few buildings and there are just a handful of these across a huge gameworld.

Weren’t those on multiple different planets? It’s been a while since I watched it.

Yossarian wrote:

Weren’t those on multiple different planets? It’s been a while since I watched it.

To the best of my knowledge, firefly doesn't feature aliens so all the planets are basically settlements which sort of helps explain a certain degree of homogeny. It's also set on the outskirts so most of the worlds really only do contain small towns.

It's not the same as all klingons dress the same.

RedDave2 wrote:

Yossarian wrote:

Weren’t those on multiple different planets? It’s been a while since I watched it.

To the best of my knowledge, firefly doesn't feature aliens so all the planets are basically settlements which sort of helps explain a certain degree of homogeny. It's also set on the outskirts so most of the worlds really only do contain small towns.

It's not the same as all klingons dress the same.

And most of the outer planets were terraformed and frontiers hence the western vibe.

Remember that episode of Star Trek (classic) where the people's faces were black on one side and white on the other but their racism was based on which side was which?  Was a good 'un.

Wasn't there a Twilight Zone episode where everyone looked the same too?


Planets with one weather system (desert, snow, forest) is a classic but I don't really care too much about it. SW was always just an update of Flash Gordon - even had a cloud city. That structure of "sequence of tight squeezes" which made the first one such a success.

g.man wrote:

Why do the meat cutters just down tools and leave all the fresh meat out in the sun to rot when they finish their shifts? Must be fucking stinking when they come back the next morning.

This also rankled me. It’s like nobody on the writing team had even basic knowledge how a factory functions. Just have another shift handover, not let the elements, critters or thieves get at the valuable food.

Also, attempting to conceal your Jedi identity whist letting the worlds see there’s a lightsaber dangling from your hip…

Back to Arcane then.

Heavy garb and hooded robes seemed all the rage for the mature man at the Outer Rim.

Yossarian wrote:

To be fair, it was revealed in the prequel trilogy that Kenobi had been attempting to hide his Jedi identity by walking around in Jedi robes at all times, so what difference would a lightsaber make?

Eh what? That doesn't make sense. I think red letter media have raised it as a ossible mistake of design that the jedi in the prequels wore the same robes as the jedi in hiding kenobi

RamSteelwood wrote:

RedDave2 wrote:

Yossarian wrote:

To be fair, it was revealed in the prequel trilogy that Kenobi had been attempting to hide his Jedi identity by walking around in Jedi robes at all times, so what difference would a lightsaber make?

Eh what? That doesn't make sense. I think red letter media have raised it as a ossible mistake of design that the jedi in the prequels wore the same robes as the jedi in hiding kenobi

I think that was the joke Yoss was making

Don't I feel like a half witted nervous herder...

OMG LEIA IS FALLING HUNDREDS OF FEET TO CERTAIN DEATH!


OMG BEN USES HIS AWESOME FORCE POWA TO SAVE HER!


OMG LEIA SITS UP AND IS FINE!


OMG AS SHE SITS UP BEN RUNS AROUND THE CORNER AND CHECKS SHE'S OK!


It has taken Ben five seconds in real time to evade the robot bounty hunter that is currently firing on him, find the stairs on the rooftop, negotiate his way down through the buildings, and run around the corner.

JEDI POWA!

I think a big problem that Star Wars TV is running into is that they got Jon Favreau, one of the tippedy-top special effects-based movie making people, and Dave Filoni, probably the closest thing Star Wars has to a successor to George Lucas, to hash out how to make Star Wars work on TV in the form of the Mandalorian and now you have a bunch of jobbing TV directors from Mando essentially taking the path of least resistance and just re-hashing Mando in their own projects. I think they've probably ended up with the opposite problem from the Disney-era Star Wars movies - they've got their overarching Kevin Fiege-type figures but they haven't got strong enough creative talent on the individual shows.

g.man wrote:

Yossarian wrote:

Couldn’t he have jumped down and used his force power to not die himself?

He could have, but then he would have probably jumped down and landed right beside her. Instead, the implication is that he has exited the rooftop using more conventional means. If he'd used his awesome Jedi Powa to float down, then I suspect it would have caused something of a commotion to do it round the corner in the main street where all the passers by are.

you're also forgetting that obi wan had seemingly forgotten how to use the force through acting normal for so long, though fortunately retained (or gained) some martial arts combat training. catching leia seemed to take it right out of him, so obviously he must have took a nearby slide that we hadn't seen so he could get his breath back

Yossarian wrote:

Couldn’t he have jumped down and used his force power to not die himself?

He probably tried to top himself but subconsciously the force saved him

I suspect that your spoiler may not stick.