- DngerlyAwkwrd
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"It is the cruelest fate, to have written words that meant well and see them made wicked and unwise. What was meant to encourage life, used instead to justify taking it."
The Problems with the Prequels
In The Phantom Menace, in order to warn the Naboo of imminent invasion, Obi-wan and Qui-gon decide to sneak inside a Trade Federation ship to reach the planet. Wouldn't this make warning the Naboo of invasion redundant, since the invasion would have already arrived?
When they sneak on board the ships, they split up. Why split up? Wouldn't that increase the risk of getting permanently separated, and decrease the likelihood of surviving after getting caught?
Obi-wan and Qui-gon have to reach the humans of Naboo (where the Trade Federation is heading) by travelling to the planet's core. This clearly implies that the humans are on the opposite side of Naboo. Why didn't the Trade Federation just land on the planet outside of the human city? Wouldn't that save them the trouble of having to travel ACROSS HALF OF THE ENTIRE PLANET?
On Tatooine, Anakin has build a protocol droid C-3PO for his mother as a house servant. Why build a droid specifically designed for translating alien languages? To quote C-3PO himself, "I'm little more than an interpreter." Wouldn't it be more useful to build a droid that is actually designed for house maintenance?
In the prequels, R2-D2 can fly. Why can't he fly after the events of the prequels? He had plenty of opportunities (I understand this is a retcon, I'm saying it was a pointless one).
Palpatine told Darth Vader that Padme had lost the will to live. This brings up two problems: why doesn't this universe have the technology to prevent these deaths? Lightspeed and hyperspace travel, lightsabers, the Death Star, and they have NO technology to prevent mothers from dying in childbirth? Why does Padme "lose the will to live" if she knows that her husband is a murderer and her children will be unprotected without her? Wouldn't she want to make sure her children would grow up to be strong, and want to see it for herself? She seriously "lost the will to live"?
And if Darth Vader thought Padme had died because of him, wouldn't that bring up some HUGE questions when he discovered his two children were alive? Is he completely unaffected by this revelation that goes against everything he was taught about the moment that destroyed his life?
These plot holes are only to name a handfull. Seriously, this is nearly as bad as the plot holes of Breaking Dawn.
[Edited on 12.08.2012 12:02 PM PST]