A couple of my favorite inconsistencies, besides the ones already mentioned are...
1) Leia has a half-assed English accent some of the time...and no accent at all at other times.
2) Why such a push to find the plans/blueprints of the Death Star? Even if the empire retrieved the originals, you mean to tell me there are no Kinkos in the galaxy? They have enough technology in the Star Wars universe for space ships, laser guns and hyper-space travel.....but not enough technology for a xerox machine?
3) Along those same lines....there's enough technology for spaceships and lasers...but yet NOBODY has a cell phone?
4) Why would R2-D2 communicate only with beep-beep-beeps? WHy wouldn't he have the capability to communicate with people directly? There's enough technology that droids have AI, can think...and even feel emotions....but R2 can't talk??
5) There's enough technology for holograms......but yet there's not one computer or computer screen seen anywhere in the films. Just rows and rows of square, red and white buttons (lol), like in Star Trek.
6) There's enough technology for hovercrafts, robots and landspeeders.....yet there's no cyborgs? Instead, we get goofy, beeping robots ambling around, beep-beep-beeping, looking like something out of a 1950's sci-fi comic book.
7) When Lucas went back and retro-fitted some new footage in various scenes, mostly using CGI.....there's one scene in particular I've wondered about: The added scene with Han walking next to, and talking with...Jabba. Did they shoot that scene in 1977....and just have Harrison Ford walking next to and talking with a regular guy (an early version of Jabba?), which ended-up on the cutting room floor? And then...many years later, Lucas cut out the old version of Jabba (just a regular guy walking with Han)....and CGI'd that giant slug version?
8) Why the goofy, juvenile.....terminology? I mean...."blasters" "The Death Star"? Really? LOL
"The DEATH STAR??" And how about....."The Force"? Isn't that a bit basic and generic? If it's some mystical, universal force, belief, ideology and pseudo-religion....couldn't they have come up with some kind of really cool name for it, like: Quin-shi-DOH? Or Zoook-YAMA?
ANYTHING....would be better than "The Force". Calling it "The Force" is as basic and arbitrary as calling it "The Stuff". LOL
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AnubisRaydeen (7897)
5 years ago
I share some of these issues too. However, I never thought about #8. Funny and true. May the Stuff be with you!
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Frogarama (12942)
5 years ago
The added scene with Han walking next to, and talking with...Jabba. Did they shoot that scene in 1977....and just have Harrison Ford walking next to and talking with a regular guy (an early version of Jabba?), which ended-up on the cutting room floor? And then...many years later, Lucas cut out the old version of Jabba (just a regular guy walking with Han)....and CGI'd that giant slug version?
Exactly. Jabba was a chubby guy in a fur coat when originally shot.
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MaximRecoil (4215)
4 years ago
"1) Leia has a half-assed English accent some of the time...and no accent at all at other times."
There are idiots in real life who do that, like Lauren Cohan, who pretends she has a British accent even though she was born and raised in New Jersey (lived there until she was 13). I have a crazy "aunt" who does that too. She's from Maine and moved to Georgia when she was in her 30s, and when she first came back to Maine to visit about a year later, she would randomly switch from her normal accent to her new, fake Southern accent.
"5) There's enough technology for holograms......but yet there's not one computer or computer screen seen anywhere in the films. Just rows and rows of square, red and white buttons (lol), like in Star Trek."
Watch it again. There are several computer monitors shown in Star Wars. In addition to targeting screens in ships, there are multiple monitors in the first room they hid in on the Death Star; the room where R2D2 accessed the computer system to find out that Leia was there and was scheduled to be executed.
"6) There's enough technology for hovercrafts, robots and landspeeders.....yet there's no cyborgs? Instead, we get goofy, beeping robots ambling around, beep-beep-beeping, looking like something out of a 1950's sci-fi comic book."
One of the most famous characters, not only in Star Wars, but in movie history as well (Darth Vader), is a cyborg.
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