Star Wars is great and all, but if there ever were a franchise that had problems, it would be this one. There are a lot of inconsistencies you can point and laugh at. Most of these issues come from the prequel trilogy. There’s not enough time in the world to piece through everything wrong there. They were introduced to fill in backstory on some of your favorite characters, like how Darth Vader became a villain or seeing how the Jedi Order thrived and then disbanded. There’s a lot the prequels did right. Oops, I meant there are some things they did right and a lot they did wron🌳g, and I mean a truckload.
Who do you blame it? George Lucas? He can’t be the only one. Sure he wrote and directed them, but come on. He has a staff too. The Star Wars universe is huge with the games, books, comics, movies, and so on. Arguably, it’s impossible to keep track of everything, even if your job is to be a Loremaster for the series. There’s just so much to deal with. What I’m trying to say is yes, of course, there’s going to be some issues with the narrative, but you can find inconsistencies in anything you love. That’s more of an issue with humans I guess. Maybe when we can have robots to create our content we’ll live in a plot-hole-free zone. For now, we have to deal with it like these twenty-five mind-bending puzzlers from Star Wars.
25 Council Of Dummies
You know what. It’s sad that the Jedi Order fell in the prequels, but it’s their own dang fault. I mean in their infi🐈nite knowledge and supply of Jedi Masters, how could they not detect one Sith Lord? Palpatine is cunning and powerful sure, but come on. Could no one tell? What does he have, some sort of cloak or something? They never really give a reasonable explanation.
One of these things is not like the other.
I find that highly illogical, as Mr. Spock would say, which I realize has nothing to do with Star Wars, but whatever. If these nimrods can’t solve a simple riddle like this then they deserve to have a Star Trek quote in thei𓆉r e𓃲ntry. Trekkies have to love that burn.
24 Pointless Protection
Here’s a joke I touched on in my 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Star Wars comic piece. Stormtrooper armor, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing. They can’t protect against lightsabers, laser blasts, or even rocks for crying out loud. They look like plastic and they must be plastic if that’s the case. Who made those things, futuristic versions of Sterilite, or Rubbermaid? A couple of plastic tote jokes for all of you packers and hoarders out there. Anyway, sure, you could say the Empire lost due to the overwhelming number of Ewoks on Endor, but come on. Someone should redesign that stuff for more protection. Han Solo and the others don’t even wear armor and they’re better off. There’s a lesson The First Order didn’t learn🥀 from the Empire’s mistakes.
23 The Downfall Of Civilization
Why are those helmets so big? Simply put that was the fashion when developing futuristic clothing back in the 70s. It was over exaggerated to a point. In hindsight, it looks ridiculous, just like technology overall looks worse in the original trilogy compared to the prequels (as this meme points out). It’s not like the prequels are more advanced, or anything. It’s part of the problem whenever someone is trying to develop a sequel to a movie made eons before, or a prequel to a movie made eons before. Of course, you could say technology was better in those films because after the Empire was forged, all advancement stopped for pure military usage. That said, Rogue One did a good job as a modern movie emulating the 70s better. So it ca🌞n be done.
22 More Confusing Will I Be
It’s time for another spoiler from The Last Jedi. So when Luke is trying to decide whether to burn the Jedi Order books, Yoda calls down a bolt of lighting to destroy them thus taking away Luke’s decision𒁏. So not only can Jedi return from the afterlife as Force ghosts, but they can actually affect th🍌e life of the present.
The First Order needs a Force ghost buster unit.
That’s incredible! How have they not come back before to help out against the galaxy’𝔍s plights? I know, you can expla✤in away that stuff too. Yoda might be the only one that can actually do it since he is the strongest elder. Many have speculated that Yoda was actually just a vision of Luke’s. Who’s to say?
21 Third Time’s The Charm
Another lesson I’m surprised The First Order didn’t learn from the Empire involves the Death Star. Look. They built two and they were both easily destroyed. These aren’t legends passed down through the ages. The Force Awakens only takes place like thirty years after Return of the Jedi so everyone still knows about how stupid the Empire was. I’m sure they have archives or something too. I guess they thought this time would be okay since they harvested out the core of a planet, but you know what they say. The bigger they are, the harder they fall. What could possibly be bigger than a planet failing? Ugh, so many disappointing decisions. If the Sun becomes a Death Star in Episode IX I’m going to flip.
20 Mary Sue Of The Snow
First of all, I disagree with the sentiment that Rey is a Mary Sue in The Force Awakens. That’s just lazy criticism of people too afraid that a woman can b𒁏e just as cool as a guy. Sure it may be ridiculous that she wields a lightsaber for the first time and defeats Kylo Ren, but remember that victory was just barely hersܫ.
Rey knows how to work a shaft.
Don’t forget she had to practically raise herself on Jakku. She had to learn to defend her💫self against creatures and other scavengers. Rey was pretty handy with her stick thing earlier in the movie and a lightsaber is just an extension of that. See, is that so hard to believe now? Okay, it sti🧔ll is a little ridiculous, but come on.
19 The Ground Is Lava
This is also something I covered in that 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Star Wars comic article. Just goes to show that good jokes come around twice, or something like that. Anyway, Obi-Wan defeats Anakin on Mustafar because he tells Anakin that he has the “high ground” and thus the advantage in battle. High ground is a strategy in battle, true, but there is room on the side to run up. He could knock Obi-Wan down with the Force too. There are so many tactics Anakin could have imp🍨lemented, but no. What does he do instead? Does a flip off of his floating platform and gets chopped in half, which in this universe doesn’t mean anything. People get chopped in half all the time and live, but a stab in the chest, pff, that’s fatal.
18 The Kojima Effect
It’s time for a little insider baseball. C-3PO returns with a red arm in The Force Awakens. When asked he says it’s a long story, which actually meant we’re just going to flesh that out in a comic book. You know, make more money. If you read that book, Star Wars: C-3PO #1, you find out the read arm belongs to a droid that fell in battle, Omri, that he✃ befriended while trying🅠 to rescue Admiral Ackbar.
It’s a trap!
The arm is also a nod to Big Boss from Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. Hideo Kojima is a huge fan of J.J. Abrams and the same goes for Abram🅷s ꦇto Kojima. It’s a nice extra Easter egg only true fans of both series would get.
17 Overused Meme, But Still Funny
Just like my title says, yes, I completely understand the “over 9,000” meme is overplayed. Would it have been funnier if I wrote, “his midichlorians are over one million” instead? Maybe, but I decided to stick with the original statement from Dragon Ball Z to make it extra nostalgic. That’s right, this meme is ancient as is the source material. Writing aside, let’s talk about how stupid midichlorians are. I literally think George Lucas watched DBZ and thought, hey yeah, I should🙈 explain what the Force is. It’s not magic or religion. It’s literally micro bugs inside you. That is incredibly stupid and may be the worst piece of lore the prequel trilogy introduced. I think that fact has been retconned now, or at least I hope it has been.
16 Beware Of Long Shafts
Say what you will about The Phantom Menace, but Darth Maul was pretty rad. That fight was well choreographed and the music is legendary. So it goes without reason that the Loremasters behind Star Wars would want to resurrect the best thing about that movie and the prequels overall. Darth Maul returned in the fourth season of The Clone Wars with a brand spanking new pair of robotic legs. So not only can he survive being literally cut in half, but a giant drop into a shaft. With that logic, Han Solo should be a secret cameo in Episode IX, right? He was only stabbed in the chest and fell down a hole. Of course, the planet blew up, but if Darth Maul can come back t🐽hen assuredly so can Solo.