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Re: Empire Analysis : WAS: [Re: Why I think we'll get Stormtroopers + Imperial ships]
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Wed, 9 Feb 2000 18:56:59 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Scott Edward Sanburn writes:
> Speaking of the Empire, my biggest complaint with the SW universe, where
> I am talking about movies, and not the books, etc. I am not familiar
> with them, is that the Empire is really ignorant / dumb/ etc. There are
> so many examples, from the Ewoks to the Millennium Falcon on the back of
> the ship, etc. It bugs me tremendously. I call it my Bad Guy School of
> Idiocy. This school seems to reach most, if not all, bad guys, from
> books to movies to video games.
> It seems to me that they pick the worst choices in all situations, and
> they die or get caught at the end.
I think that one reason that this happens is because it is just plain easier to
make the bad guys dufuses (I have no idea how to spell that - maybe dufusi?).
It takes more talent, more creativity, more effort, more patience, to make the
bad guys 3-dimensional and to write a thoughtful script. Let's face it: in
Jedi, the stormtroopers were just a means to an end during the battle of Endor.
Lucas didn't even try to make a story of it. The Ewoks were the cute
heartwarming element that would pack the cinemas with moms and their youngsters,
and it was a given all along, no matter what, that they would give the
Stormtroopers a mean butt-whipping. The Stormtroopers were just stand-ins,
stooges, so that everybody could celebrate and feel warm fuzzies about the
little rodents. I realize that Lucas wanted to have the cold, impersonal,
technology-dominated Empire defeated by a primitive race; that is indeed a good
story line, but it could have been done a bit more credibly, IMO.
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