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The objective of the attack was kidnapping Palpatine - in that, he succeeded. Having him succeed more in kidnapping Palpatine when we already know that was the whole point would change nothing, and you would still be saying that Palpatine let himself get kidnapped, wouldn't you? Grievous succeeded ...

How is the stuff about Qui-Gon not in the movie? Qui-Gon is an obvious father figure and his role in the plot (particularly his religious views and role towards Obi-Wan) are explicit. I'm glad, however, that attacking the way someone says something is a valid approach. Certianly citing examples of ...

Anyway, some things I don't like about RotS:- * Anakin's turn to the Dark Side was too fast; Yeah. I would have liked a little more references to his previous mass murdering experience to help Palpatine turn him. Something like: Anakin: I can't kill my friends. Palpatine: Padme's life hangs in the ...

I love this, I really do - I pointed out that the Republic soldiers and Jedi were surprised because you're the brainstrust who thought that Palapatine being in on his own kidnapping somehow made the battle easy. And when I rebut that by pointing out the obvious, all of a sudden, pointing out same i...

Man, 108 pages of nerd rambling that completely misses the point of the reviews. Your entire "thesis" is fundamentally based on accepting things that lay off of several degrees of assumptions that aren't present in the film (your entire understanding of Qui-Gon qualifies) or have any evid...

why I should believe Grievous is a credible antagonist ? Didn't you watch the cartoon? :) Lucas should have a "Do you want to know more?" button pop up from time to time that leads me to the Amazon.com page for whatever merchandise I need to buy for the full story. :) And? So? Therefore? ...

I'm glad that you agreed to narrow the scope of this exchange, though you seemed eager to claim the last word on them. Very well, I wouldn't want your hurt feelings to distract you even more from thinking rationally and expressing yourself articulately. These increasingly large posts were tiring me ...

I miss stuff because you like to split what I say down to component sentences and I miss things. Maybe you do this to strip away context for your benefit. I'm not actually sure, though. I try not to do it myself and I sometimes try to put together what you split up. And sometimes I ignore when you h...

The mere fact that he stood up for himself when Gunray questioned his ability to keep them safe does not somehow magically translate into him being somehow their boss. As the military commander, Grievous has the authority to determine where the Separatist leaders should go and why, and despite bell...

Who cares? That's the clear implication of your argument, that there should be no General Grievous because of what you saw in AotC. I am utterly baffled by this. So now because you know your claim that I said "I think AOTC implied that the Separatists had no generals" is wrong it's now th...

Easy:- "I gave a small shit because the previous movie established that the Separatists were some kind of organization of cartel-sounding people with Dooku as head." How am I supposed to interpret this, as opposed to "what I saw of their leadership before the war even started should ...

No, that was your impression of the previous movie. It was also wrong. There's nothing in AotC that should lead anyone to reasonably conclude that the Separatists would have no generals like Grievous. The above is something you totally made up in your head and is completely unjustified- the war onl...

This is just inane nitpicking mate. It's plain as day in the film that General Grievous answers to Sidious, not the Viceroy. The fact that he has private correspondence direct with Sidious telling him what to do, and that he treats Gunray with contempt, makes this obvious. I cannot believe anyone g...

Yet you come back in this thread talking big shit. Sit down and be quiet until you're prepared to not make an ass of yourself. You're right, I really need to stop talking big shit and just post my 70 page thesis about The Phantom Menace. Oh... Ohhhhh... Reading comprehension asshat. I didn't even s...

Did anyone else try my experiment with the dialogue? Yeah, it's odd. Maybe Lucas really did rush out the script after one draft like Plinkett suggests and for some reason he changed "engine" to "shield." Like Lucas realized that R2 wouldn't be in danger if the shield was still u...

Hey, maybe you think you're being considerate, I dunno, but "nuhh i wrote this huge document, maybe i'll send people a summary over PM if they ask nicely" sounds like empty huffing and puffing to most people. It's not "maybe," you fucking liar, it's I will and I have . You're ge...

So, if we're going to go down this line of thinking, that means Stoklasa is an attention who's selling himself. Does he even believe the crap he spews, which people gobble up? Kim Kardashian has done a pretty good job of gaining attention and selling basically nothing of substance. If you're right ...

I'm saying that pandering is not incompatible, indeed highly compatible, with garnering attention, and you treated it as though they were separate and inherently different. All I wanted to do was call attention (ha) to how the reviews get attention of either sort to promote his movies. I thought so...

It's your problem that you refuse to use your brain and expect every single thing to be served to you on a plate. Do you really expect every loose end to be picked up on in a 2 something hours long movie? And what is wrong with having to speculate. If anything, if a movie does not leave room for sp...

Because you claimed that his choice of movies to criticize was irrelevant to his purpose, which is an oversimplification. I did? Some guy claimed Stoklasa's goal was simply to make Lucas-hating nerds happy and I countered that his ultimate goal was to get attention to his movie business. Even negat...

The two aren't really distinct at all, though; he probably picks most of the movies he does (latter-era Star Trek, the SW Prequels, Avatar ), because these movies are already condemned in nerd opinions and so will garner mostly positive attention. If his shtick was to complain about say, The Fifth ...

blahface wrote:Counting slaves as a full person would have made it even more difficult to emancipate the slaves.

Why?

The whole "he's not serious, he's totally joking/drawing attention/making money off of this" is nothing but a lame ass excuse selectively used to brush off criticism whenever it's convenient. It's total bullshit, and you know it. I know you're too furious to notice, but I was responding t...

My point is that if it happened say 10K years ago or 1K years ago events would have faded out of public memory and became little more than stories... I can imagine that even things that happen some 500 years ago would be little more than a foot note in some history book. I'm losing so much patience...

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