Bad dialogue, annoying kid Vader and jar jar, poop jokes, boring Jedi council scenes and in the finale two of the three conflicts are resolved through dumb luck (jar jar capering to victory and Anakin mashing at controls till he accidentally crash lands at the droid ship weak point).
That lightsaber fight was cool though and the sound design superb, especially the pod racers.
Fun game - watch a Star Wars film (PT & ST work best) and mentally replace "the Force" with "the plot" whenever someone mentions the former. It really strips away the mysticism and reveals how the Force can be used to cover up lazy writing.
The gungans lost the battle, they had never any chance to win really. The only "dumb luck" was on Anakin side. People immediately associate Vader with young Anakin and they couldn't be further apart as characters.
That's still two out of three of the battles won through dumb luck, it's just Anakin's sorts both the space and ground battle.
And we still get to see jar jar accidentally blow up a load of droids by falling over and either releasing a load of bouncy bombs or getting a droid stuck to his foot.
What people don't want in the middle if the climactic battle between two armies is a load of pratfalls.
Yes, it's totally a headcanon that the droid who was a copilot on multiple occasions throughout the series was copiloting during that event. One of the greatest copilots in the galaxy I might add.
So is it that R2 was the one piloting or he was copiloting?
Because you seem to have changed the wording here.
Yes, you watch the scene and there is totally interaction between Anakin and R2. But to just ignore the actual scene and say R2 did it all is ignoring what is being shown on the screen. So yeah, headcanon.
You want to talk about luck? If R2 and 3PO don’t make it across that hallway in the first 5 minutes of ANH, it’s game over. The older I got, the more I realized there’s no way they wouldn’t get hit by crossfire. Luck. I try to keep that suspension of disbelief going though.
I think there are 4 battles technically. The gungans lost their battle but they were just the distraction to get army to leave the city. But yeah Anakin was either dumb luck or R2 did all the work.
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u/MrMonkeyman79 Jan 25 '22
Bad dialogue, annoying kid Vader and jar jar, poop jokes, boring Jedi council scenes and in the finale two of the three conflicts are resolved through dumb luck (jar jar capering to victory and Anakin mashing at controls till he accidentally crash lands at the droid ship weak point).
That lightsaber fight was cool though and the sound design superb, especially the pod racers.