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Re: Yet another EP1 nitpick
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Tue, 25 May 1999 19:16:04 GMT
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After QGJ tries the mind trick, Watto says "Do you think you're a Jedi or
something?"  I don't think he was really picking up on Qui-Gon's Jedi-ness.
QG's statements weren't blatantly wierd, they could have been interpreted as a
person trying to push for his own side.  I noticed this little quibble when I
saw the movie, but upon further reflection, I don't think it's a nit.

In lugnet.starwars, Richard Hrynyszyn writes:
    Ok, i found another tiny little nitpick with the movie.  When Qui-Gon
first visits Watto to buy parts for the ship he tries the Jedi mind trick on
Watto, who laughs at his feeble attempt.  Yet later on in the film Watto rolls
his "chance cube" to decide which slave would be freed if Anakin won the
race.  Did Watto so soon forget about Jedi powers?  So after the race when
Watto says that Qui-Gon tricked him, he was right "from a certain point of
view" :-p          - Rich



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(...) the lines of: I'm a (XXX), jedi powers don't work on me, only money. XXX being whatever race he is which i can't recall. I took this to mean that Watto realized that QGJ was a jedi and was telling him that his powers would not work on his (...) (25 years ago, 25-May-99, to lugnet.starwars)

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Ok, i found another tiny little nitpick with the movie. When Qui-Gon first visits Watto to buy parts for the ship he tries the Jedi mind trick on Watto, who laughs at his feeble attempt. Yet later on in the film Watto rolls his "chance cube" to (...) (25 years ago, 25-May-99, to lugnet.starwars)

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