“We’ve almost got some of their telecommunications cracked; the front end even runs on a laptop!” The Mac that sunk a thousand ships could have been merely clunky product placement, not a bafflingly stupid tech-on-film moment.

“Senator Amidala is in a coma. Even if she recovers, she will never be the same and may not live long.” But no… George had to have his god-damned funeral scene, even if it demanded Simone Biles levels of mental gymnastics to save Carrie Fisher’s most emotionally resonant moment from ROTJ, as well as one of the more intriguing OT lore dumps.

Bonus points if a scene was scripted or filmed and got cut.

  • @CileTheSane
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    012 days ago

    Disagree, the “another layer” thing would be extremely lazy writing.

    And “Neo has actual superpowers for no reason” wasn’t?

    • Rikudou_Sage
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      112 days ago

      What do you mean “no reason”? IMO it was executed and explained well.

      • @CileTheSane
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        012 days ago

        Neo having super powers in the matrix was explained. Not how he had them in “real life”.

        • Rikudou_Sage
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          112 days ago

          It was because he’s connected to the machine network and he has some limited interfacing with them. He could trigger their destroy sequence or whatever.

          At least that’s what I remember, haven’t seen it for a while.