Originally posted by Jerico
This unthinking support of everything George says seems a little story, i know he created the entire thing and im grateful for that, but this is the same George Lucas who demanded in a cutting room that
"The baddies have red laser swords and the goodies have green and blue"
Tough! Like it or not, it is his call. Anyone's disagreement with that is entirely immaterial.
Originally posted by mephistodesigns
Well Superfly, as far as ROTJ is concerned, it's Huttese for food. Hence Jabba's telling Han "now you're banta food" but his huttese says Bantha Poodoo. But in TPM, Sebulba says it as a clear cut curse word. It sounds like poo which we all understand, I always thought it was one of those jokes that worked as clean jokes for kids and dirty for adults who realized what it sounded like and how it was used. It sounded more like Jabba meant now you're banta s**t because they'd eat him and crap him out. And Sebulba clearly sounded like he meant s**t, since that's what I'd say after loosing such a major competition. So it all depends on who ya ask. Unless Sebulba really was yelling "food" like maybe he was tired and hungry after the hard race.....but I doubt it. 😉
Actually, the translation of "bantha poodoo" was given as "bantha fodder". From what I know, a bantha foddder is someone who follows around banthas in populated areas and clean up after them. :/ I'd hate to have that job.
Anyways, the OT stormtroopers are not clones, seeing as Luke and his friends were planning on joining the Imperial Academy, through which the first class you would be in would be stormtrooper. Perhaps after the clone wars someone put an end to all clones.
Yeah...so thats my opinion 😄
Originally posted by Superfly4000
No mixed gene pool can make the Stormtroopers that stupid. Even the Emperors best troops couldn't beat the Ewoks. Unless Lucas adds a thousand more Ewoks somehow, this just doesnt add up...
Dude, come on.
As much as we all love Star Wars, there's no denying it is a family film.
Look at how incompetant the bad guys are in the Indiana Jones movies, yet nobody complains.
The bad guys are supposed to be clumsy, with the exception of the main baddies.
It's actually pretty cool how there's subtle moralising within STar Wars, but not too much as to be in your face. Like we've got our super-strong baddies like the Darths and the Emperor, who the adults love and provide awesome antagonists. Then we have the Stormtroopers, who are basically fodder for the good guys to destroy because they have to look strong. It's implying that "if you are bad, you suck" with the Stormtroopers. Then when we see ROTJ, it's a case of "if you are bad, you die" with Emperor and Vader.
Again, with the Emperor, he was sent to "hell" by Vader/Anakin, and Vader was redeemed and sent to "heaven". In a manner of speaking.
The Stormtroopers being clumsy is all part of the moral of the story. Don't be bad.
Davin--Fodder means food. Feed as someone pointed out. I.E.--I'm gonna sprinkle bits of your carcass all over the desert for Bantha's to eat. The FUNNY thing, is that it's inconsistantly used, if FOOD is the meaning. But if S**T is the meaning, well...then it always makes sense. But its PG. So he can't put that as the translation. But adults all know what they mean...
hit and miss troopers
In ANH Obi-wan says in one scene of the accuracy of the storm troopers shooting, "only imperial storm troopers could be so precise" A laughable line really considering that for the rest of the trilogy the storm troopers couldn't hit a barn door to save their lives. (Thank goodness really otherwise it would have all been over for our hero's in the first half of ANH. Clumsy, and cr*p with a gun, the gene pool for the clones must have been very iffy indeed.
Re: hit and miss troopers
Originally posted by kalsolar
In ANH Obi-wan says in one scene of the accuracy of the storm troopers shooting, "only imperial storm troopers could be so precise" A laughable line really considering that for the rest of the trilogy the storm troopers couldn't hit a barn door to save their lives. (Thank goodness really otherwise it would have all been over for our hero's in the first half of ANH. Clumsy, and cr*p with a gun, the gene pool for the clones must have been very iffy indeed.
Ha ha, interesting.
Also, I always found it funny how the Stormtroopers were only accurate if their target was a lightsabre wielding Jedi.
Also, Chewbacca. WTF? A big hairy, loud growling 2 metre tall hairball and they couldn't hit him?
Well the excuse in Episode IV is that they wanted them to escape so they could get the wherebouts of the Rebel base.
But hey it's a little funny that a millitary that was able to conquer the entire universe can be out shot by an addled kid straight off the farm in the most backwater planet of the galaxy! Imperials needed to invest some time of their training towards basic marksmanship methinks