The election takes the form of a beauty pageant, with the winner being the smallest girl who can hold her head highest in the most elaborate headress.
The Minearverse 3: The Network Is a Harsh Mistress
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
"And you'd think that when Vader ran into C3-PO at Lando's place, he'd at least go, "Hey threepio, how's it going?" considering that be built the fucker."
It's interesting you should bring that up, I actually think one of Vader's actions in Empire could be looked at in a different way in light of his C-3PO connection. When Chewie goes berzerk throwing Stormtroopers around Boba Fett aimes his gun at him and Vader stops him. Why? Maybe because C-3PO was attached to Chewie's back. Plus, before that Chewie was allowed to bring a broken C-3PO into his cell in order to get him working again. And if you don't buy that then you could argue C-3PO and Vader never really come face to face because at the time 3PO was broke.
Amidala is Queen, but it's an elective office?
Her planet is just wacky that way.
Oh, then there were the battledroids of Phantom Menace that were all controlled remotely from a single point.
Oh, and the biggest biggie of them all: Why is Imperial Storm Trooper uniform vulnerable not only to blaster shots, but to blows over the head?
What's its purpose, to attract the chicks?
How about the whole concept of midiclorians? Intead of an order of preists, who train in difficult conditions (I would like to see a Tim written Yoda class) we have an order of xmen, whose power is granted at birth, and developed through training.
How about the whole concept of midiclorians?
Whenever I encounter the term "midiclorians" my first reaction is to picture a Jedi who can photosynthesize.
Hee. Now that would be a superpower. "The sap is strong within you, my son."
What's its purpose, to attract the chicks?
Nah. It's just a plastic burqa.
Or Magic Shell!
Heee! StormTroopers melt in your mouth, not in your hand!
I think the whole backlash about how the midchlorians betrayed the original trilogy's mystical view of the Force is hogwash. Obi-Wan on the Force: "It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together." and Yoda on the Force: "Life creates it, make it grow. It's energy surrounds us and binds us." It's not an entirely new concept for the saga, it was just given a name in The Phantom Menace. I think the word midichlorian was meant to invoke the real world counterpart mitochondria.