Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones/Nit Central Corrections

1. *Adam on Sunday, May 05, 2002 - 9:08 pm:* At the end why does Jango Fett fly into action for the seperatists? I understand he feels no loyalty to the Republic. At the sametime I don't see why he feels any loyalty to the seperatists. If I where him, an immoral bounty hunter, when the Jedi landed I would have grabbed Boba and gotten out of town. Infact it was the Republic, via the cloners, that were setting him and Boba up for life. Good way to think that one thru Fett, next time try not losing your head. **Maybe the Sepratists are paying him a regular amount as a retainer fee.**
2. *Kira Sharp on Thursday, May 16, 2002 - 2:50 pm:* R2-D2 needs to learn to work a light switch. Flashlights are very dramatic, but they don't catch giant poisonous centipedes with more than two brain cells apiece. **True, but they can be useful in showing their position.**
3. I am truly amazed to learn that R2 can fly. I swear, I was ready to begin humming the Superman theme as he zoomed through the air to rescue everybody. Why didn't he fly out of the swamp in Episode V? Or rescue Luke in Episode V while the Falcon waited at a safe distance? Or join the battle at Jabba's, flying through the air and zapping everyone with his new cattle prod? The possibilities are endless. ***Brian Fitzgerald on Thursday, May 16, 2002 - 8:17 pm:* Perhaps he couldn't fly by the time of the original trilogy. Remember that at this point he is the property of the Naboo government during a time of peace and prosperity. If that's an expensive feature to install and it broke down some time during the 20ish years between EP III & EP IV a government that is secretly supporting a rebellion may not have the resources to keep up on all the after-market features on a droid who functions as a mechanic (to quote C3PO.)**
4. For all of Obi-Wan's whining, he has the roller-coaster bug worse than Anakin. The tracking signal on Jango's ship is still working perfectly, and yet Kenobi still chooses to follow him into the asteroid ring ("belt," Jango? last time I checked, belts were linear, not circular)! Why not simply hover and wait for him at a safe distance, wait until he lands, and then touch down next to him? He's going to have to land sometime, so why waste your energy chasing him? **He’s making sure he’s following the correct target, and not a decoy.**
5. *Jason on Thursday, May 16, 2002 - 3:28 pm:*  So, Anakin has a homing device with the ship that Obi-Wan uses to find his location... aren't they supposed to be travelling in disguise? Broadcasting your location is not the way to stay hidden. ***STMarine on Thursday, May 16, 2002 - 3:38 pm:* Perhaps what Obi-Wan was talking about was a special Jedi communications device? Something that the Jedi use to keep in touch with each other?**
6. *Josh M on Thursday, May 16, 2002 - 9:15 pm:* Padme and Anakin leave on the Republic transport on their way to Naboo. Yet, the scene where Anakin and Padme talk on the transport shows the ship at sublight. No planets seem to be in the area. Why aren't they in Hyperspace? **There may be other sources of gravity in the area, which would prevent the hyperdrive from operating safely.**
7. Does Artoo get the flying capability in the middle of the movie? Late in the movie we see that Artoo can fly. Yet when Padme and Anakin reach Naboo, Artoo is seen behind them climbing up stairs. If he can fly (or at least hover) why not just float up? ***corn on Friday, May 17, 2002 - 12:03 pm:* Actually, I distinctly remember seeing Artoo hobble down the first couple of steps on Naboo. *Brian Webber on Wednesday, May 22, 2002 - 9:35 am:* Concerning R2 flying there is a simple explanation for this. His flight seemed to be powered by a chemical propellant (as opposed to energy like starship engines), so he probably can only fly for short periods of time, and probably only in dire emergencies.**
8. In the final battle, how come there aren't any Republic ships in orbit? Did they all go down to the planet? Are they trying to stay away from the Trade Federation ships? (Actually, with no Republic ships in orbit, this eliminates a nit. No Republic ship ever saw Dooku's ship. Therefore, the Count could easily make it back to Coruscant without being recognized and have his meeting with Sidious) **They may be watching the surrounding systems.**
9. I was surprised that the Lars just let C-3PO go. Wasn't he helpful to them? He appeared to be working on a vaporator when Anakin and Padme arrived. Did they let him go because Anakin built him? **Owen probably got fed up with him!**
10. Does Coruscant have a police force? I ask because Anakin and Obi-Wan chase Zam Wesell and her speeder through the skies of Coruscant for several minutes but neither decides that getting help would be a good idea. As Anakin's flying, couldn't Obi-Wan call the local force and get them to help with the chase and possibly cut off her escape routes? **That could make the situation worse.**
11. It's a good think the Vong didn't attack in the last 1,000 years. With no army, the Republic would have stood no chance. ***Brian Fitzgerald on Thursday, May 16, 2002 - 10:43 pm:* While the republic doesn't have an army the member worlds do (the Naboo defense force from EPI) The problem is getting any world to commit their own forces to fight what they see as someone elses battle (kind of like the South in the American Civil War)**
12. Why does Obi-Wan just fly low and directly over Trade Federation territory? Does he assume that they can't detect him? Does his ship have a cloaking device or something? **He may have done this to make his ship harder to track.**
13. *John A. Lang on Thursday, May 16, 2002 - 9:19 pm:* If Count Dooku (sp?) is a lord of the Sith, then why isn't he called DARTH Dooku? I mean, there's DARTH Sidious, DARTH Maul, DARTH Vader.… ***Jesse on Friday, May 17, 2002 - 4:17 am:* Dooku isn't his "evil overlord" name. Sidious calls him something else (Lord Transymius or Transimus or something like that) at the end of the movie. Same as with Vader: Anakin Skywalker isn't Darth Skywalker; he's Darth Vader. (And IF Palpatine and Sidious are the same, the pattern holds.) *LUIGI NOVI on Monday, May 27, 2002 - 11:27 pm:* He’s called Darth Tyranus. The good guys don’t know he’s a Darth, because he’s trying to get everyone to think that Darth Sidious has taken over the Senate, when in fact, he’s behind the Separatists, and Dooku is on his side.**
14. WHY didn't Obi Wan believe Dooku when he told him that a lord of the Sith controls the Senate? I mean, it was the truth! However, I must point out that Obi Wan believes it in the end.**Would you accept a statement likre that at face value?**
15. Owen & Beru are brother & sister in law to Anakin....this needed more explaining....seeing that Anakin (supposedly) had no father. **Step brother and step sister in law, actually, , due to Anakin’s mother Shemi marrying Owen’s father,**
16. *The Undesirable Element on Thursday, May 16, 2002 - 9:27 pm:* How did C3P0 and R2D2 get off of Geonesis? We see R2 reassembling C3PO and then the next time we ever see them is on Naboo at Ani and Padme's wedding. **Most likely picked up by the ships offscreen.**
17. Did the Jedi Council Member with the long neck (killed shortly after TPM) know of the clone project? ***Starkist on Saturday, May 18, 2002 - 1:28 am:* The long necked Jedi, Yareaal Poof, was not the same race as the Kimonoans, like Lama Su and Tawn We.**
18. The people in the Star Wars universe seem to have basic tracking systems yet Obi Wan flies directly overhead and doesn't seem concerned that he will be spotted. **He’s hiding in plain sight!**
19. What was the purpose of Dooku's ship having the big sail? It looked almost identical to the particle collector ship from "Star Trek: Insurrection". **It’s designed to collect solar eddies for propulsion, with some of them likely existing in Hyperspace.**
20. At one point during the car chase, Anakin inexplicably leaps out of the car and falls for an EXTREMELY long distance and yet he lands on the evil car with apparently no injuries. **Probably force cushioning.**
21. In the same incident, Anakin must have incredible faith in his abilities. In order for him to drop from a stationary point up high to a moving target down below, he'd have to figure out the time it would take for the car and him to reach a specific intersection point accounting for wind resistance and hoping that the driver doesn't alter her speed in the slightest. **In Phantom Menace, It’s explained that Anakin can see things before they happen, and has had 10 years since them to hone his abilities.**
22. What did ObiWan hope to gain by leaping out the window and grabbing the assassin droid? **It’s evidence!**
23. How did he know it would return to sender and not self destruct like the probe droids in TESB? **He would have logically been able to detect a destruct mechanism using the Force.**
24. The battle droids are being reproduced en masse. Presumably, they are all identical. Somehow, C3PO's body and head are completely compatible with the battle droid bodies and heads. **The neck connector is obviously of a standard design.**
25. Given that Anakin visits his stepbrother's home in this movie, why didn't Darth Vader ever search for Luke here? Or was Darth unaware of having a son until Luke showed up? **Don’t forget that Tattooine has a lot of bad memories for Vader.**
26. Why would love be forbidden by the Jedi. From the other movies, I gathered that a strong connection to the force was hereditary (QuiGon wonders who Ani's father was upon discovering his talents). If love is forbidden, presumably sex would be as well. If so, the Jedi would die out. ***Brian Fitzgerald on Thursday, May 16, 2002 - 10:43 pm:* According to Lucas (on the imdb today http://us.imdb.com/PeopleNews/) love is forbidden to the Jedi because it causes people to for attachments to other people; attachments that interfere with their devotion to the Jedi order. He said that sex is not forbidden. Perhaps the Jedi have some form of breeding program where people are paired up as breeding partners in order to have force-strong children. That's not exactly good "family values" but according to Qui-Gon in EPI children are discovered to be strong in the force are raised by the Jedi order anyway.**
27. *Jesse on Friday, May 17, 2002 - 4:38 am:* One thing that bothers me is the scene when Obi-Wan goes to the clone factory, where he meets with Jango Fett. Now, we can't say for certain, but IF Fett was the bounty hunter who shot Zam Wesell with the poison dart, he knows exactly who Obi-wan is.

Yet he admits (a) that he's been to Coruscant (placing him at the scene of the crime), (b) that he may have been there recently (if memory serves), and (c) he tells Kenobi who has hired him. And no, the name of his boss isn't fake, because he gives him the name that Sidious addresses Dooku by in the end of the movie. I can't believe he'd be so honest with a Jedi. **Maybe Jedi can tell if they are being lied to?**
28. Fett's involvement with Dooku really bothers me. Consider the following:

Dooku is in the process of lying to Gunray and his associates. Remember, they support him because he promises them that the separatist movement will be profitable for them. But Dooku can't possibly be ACTUALLY working for separatism because he is working for Sidious.

The way I see it is this: Dooku pretends to lead a separatist movement and gets the support of Gunray and his cronies. He urges them to build a massive droid army to fight for the cause and promises them profits if they win. However, Sidious is behind this because the separatists and their droid army create a plausible reason for the creation of a massive clone army. Sidious/Palpatine (if they are the same) gains dictatorial powers (just like Julius Caesar did) to deal with the separatists and their droid army, which he handily demolishes with his clones. Once the threat is gone...too late. Palpatine has supreme power, no political or commercial enemies (such ones having been annihilated during the Clone Wars) and a massive military to keep him in power.

So far, so good. An interesting plan, and one that bears similarity in form to Sidious' previous plan from Ep. I: secretly create a crises that cannot be traced to you, and then exploit to to gain what you want.

The problem is this: Fett is present on the droid planet and is in the room with Dooku, Gunray, and the rest. So he thus knows the "sham" plan that Dooku is playing with Gunray and company. But he is ALSO involved in the "real" plan since his body is the template for the clone army. And since he refers to Dooku by the same "evil" name that Sidious uses, it stands to reason that he knows the true score. He knows EXACTLY what is going on.

The problem is that Jango Fett is a BOUNTY HUNTER. He works for the highest bidder. So Sidious and Dooku entrust him with their plan, and what happens when the right person makes the right offer and he trades his knowledge for cash? Does he seem like the kind of person you want in on the top level of your plan? Fine, hire him to kill Amidala, but why tell him everything? ***Ryan Whitney on Friday, May 17, 2002 - 10:25 pm:* I think somewhere down the line Sidious and Dooku were going to kill Jango Fett if Mace Windu hadn't done it for them.**
29. *John A. Lang on Friday, May 17, 2002 - 7:01 pm:* OK...Owen & Beru have C3P0 working around the house...how come they don't recognize him in "A New Hope"? ***Starkist on Saturday, May 18, 2002 - 1:28 am:* Owen probably doesn't remember C3PO because in AOTC he's silver, in ANH he's gold. There are many droids like him.**
30. *Anonymous on Friday, May 17, 2002 - 9:20 pm:* In the big Automated machinery chase - How come Anakin's arm wasn't just destroyed (at least once) by all the crushing machines, rather than just sealed in a 3-ton metal mitten? **Dumb luck!**
31. If Dooku's turned to the dark side, what do we need Anakin for? Master: Siduous; apprentice: Tyrannus (Dooku). Ta-da, the Force has balance. Perhaps Dooku doesn't know that Anakin's being groomed to take his place at Siduous' side... That could lead to some interesting reactions in Ep III. **Either that, or Dooku is aware that Sidious will eventually need a new, younger apprentice!**
32. *Ryan Whitney on Friday, May 17, 2002 - 10:25 pm:* R2-D2's security for Padme was pretty poor. And why let Padme sleep with a big window opposite her bed? **This would allow any built-in security sensors to spot anything approaching.**
33. Wouldn't it have made more sense if the assassins had sent a probe that could fire some laser shots into the room, or shoot a few grenades in there that would blow up in 3 seconds and leave a gaping hole in that building where a bedroom used to be? **That would attract too much attention.**
34. **TWS Garrison on Saturday, May 18, 2002 - 4:27 am:** It's been ten years, but Amidala still seems to be friendly with R2-D2. She has this astromech sleep at the foot of her bed, lets him come along with her when she's fleeing in disguise. . .oddly enough, though, at the beginning it looks like Artoo was the droid in the Naboo fighter flown by the one-eyed man. I would have expected him to be in Amidala's fighter.**This was likely done to confuse anyone trying to target Amidala by tracking R2.**
35. Obi-Wan still can't remember R2-D2 twenty years later, even though early in this movie Amidala makes an offhand reference to "Artoo" and he appears unfazed? '***Ryan Whitney on Sunday, May 19, 2002 - 2:48 pm:'* Regarding Obi-Wan not recognizing R2-D2 when they first meet in Episode IV, I don't think it's entirely clear that he didn't recognize the droid. In Episode IV, right after Obi-Wan chases off the Tuskan Raiders and brings Luke back to consciousness, C-3PO tells Obi-Wan that R2 claims to be the property of Obi-Wan Kenobi. Obi-Wan then says that he doesn't remember ever owning a droid. Obi-Wan probably never did own a droid. However, Obi-Wan doesn't say that he doesn't recognize R2-D2. Obi-Wan may in fact have not recognized R2-D2, given he probably hadn't seen the droid in over 30 years, plus R2-D2 probably wasn't unique in appearance among mechanic droids, and I don't think R2-D2 had been introduced to Obi-Wan by name at that point. But if Obi-Wan did recognize R2-D2, he may not have wanted to reveal this to Luke, because then Luke might have started asking questions about the past that Obi-Wan might not have wanted to get into at that point.
As for why Obi-Wan doesn't recognize C-3PO when they meet in Episode IV, remember that in Episode I, Obi-Wan never went with Qui-Gon, Padme, and Jar Jar into town where Anakin and C-3PO were, and C-3PO never went to the ship where Obi-Wan was. Also, in Episode II, the closest Obi-Wan and C-3PO ever got to an introduction was when C-3PO was in the execution arena on Geonosis, with 3PO's head on a Federation battle droid's body, and a Federation battle droid's head on 3PO's body. So if Obi-Wan and C-3PO don't have anything to do with each other in Episode III, it would make sense that Obi-Wan wouldn't recognize C-3PO when they meet in Episode IV.**
36. What's with these assassination attempts? They don't look like fakes, but consider:
Jango Fett, bounty hunter, hires Zam Wessel, bounty hunter. Is there a shortage of assassins in the galaxy?**A standard assassin may lack some of the skills required for the assignment.**
37. Zam causes big (and cinematically very effective) explosion in the first attempt, but the decoy was still in one piece (unlike the Flying Wing---was I the only one who thought of The War of the Worlds?) and had time to die in Amidala's arms (saying she had failed, which was odd, since Amidala was still alive). Note that the explosion, so powerful that it knocked one of the fighters off the landing platform, was centered on the decoy. . .but she was still alive for a few seconds? **She seemed to have been near the edge of the blast**
38. After a distinctly unsubtle first attempt, Jango Fett delivers the two weapons for the second attempt to Zam; they're reptiles. First of all, why go subtle? It's not like anyone was going to think the huge explosion was an accident. **Perhaps he’s trying to minimise collateral damage.**
39. Second, why is Fett giving Zam these weapons? Isn't she being paid to think up these things on her own? **He’s making sure she receives them, while also being close enough to monitor the new attempt.**
40. Then we have this assassin droid that can hover outside Amidala's window, cut a hole without waking her or Artoo, and insert the reptiles.
Amidala's windows should have been made of stuff tough enough to slow down a turbolaser; getting through them should have been noisy. **The cutter on the assassin droid was likely designed to be powerful and quite enough to silently cut through whatever the window is made from**
41. We have a repeat of the problem from the last movie, where the good guys are stuck and need help. Again, this is not the original trilogy; the government is not against you (very much) and the Jedi are still a force in the Republic. Yet Kenobi needs help, cannot reach Coruscant, opts for Anakin, and finds him in the middle of nowhere (aka Tatooine). Aren't there any Jedi based off Coruscant, any secure relays he could use? His communications difficulties are just a lazy way for the writers to get A & A over to Genosis. **The other Jedi are probably too busy with their own assignments.**
42. The Dooku--Obi-Wan chat confused me. Dooku seemed to be suggesting that he was trying to fight the Sith, who had infiltrated the Republic so thoroughly that it was irredeemable. How would joining him under those circumstances be a fall toward the Dark Side, which is what he presumably wants Obi-Wan to do? Shouldn't Dooku either try to turn Obi-Wan directly to the Dark Side, or kill him? Why give away secrets unnecessarily? **He’s testing Obi-Wan’s loyalty to the Republic.**
43. Amidala urges Anakin to go to Genosis right away, on the grounds that Mace and Yoda are farther away, and might not get there in time. In fact, Mace and Yoda get in at the last possible moments. . .which is convenient, since they were in no hurry and decided to watch Jar Jar's speech in person. Couldn't they have seen this on the ship?**It may have been deemed necessary for them to be present for the speech**
44. *Ryan Whitney on Sunday, May 19, 2002 - 2:48 pm:* Regarding Owen Lars not recognizing C-3PO when they meet in Episode IV, Episode II didn't make clear exactly how long C-3PO had been at the Lars home before he left with Anakin. Additionally, C-3PO was silver-colored in Episode II, while he was gold-colored in Episode IV. Further, in Episode IV, we never see C-3PO introduce himself to Owen Lars by name. C-3PO waits a while before introducing himself by name to Luke, and then before you know it, R2-D2 has run off, and Luke and C-3PO go after him, shortly after which Owen and Beru are killed by Imperial stormtroopers. Owen Lars probably never got C-3PO's name between the time he bought C-3PO and the time he was killed. ***TWS Garrison on Monday, May 20, 2002 - 12:14 am:* Or Owen Lars could have recognized the droids---remember that he was quite insistent that their memories be wiped, presumably to keep the past hidden. If he recognized them from before the Clone Wars, that would be even more reason for him to fear what disruption they might bring.*TWS Garrison on Monday, May 20, 2002 - 01:14 am:* Oooh, good point! In ANH he DID seem awfully interested in getting those droids minds wiped quickly.**
45. *constanze on Thursday, May 23, 2002 - 4:41 am:* Padme uses a hairpin to open her handcuffs in the arena, in full view of everybody (these cuffs must be very old-fashioned for that to work), but nobody stops her. **She probably unlocked them before they had a chance to react!**
46. Obi-Wan and Anakin do not use their force powers to open the cuffs. Why? I thought you could manipulate almost everything with the force. **They’re likely force resistant, for use against Jedi**
47. *constanze on Thursday, May 23, 2002 - 4:54 am:* The aliens who created the clone army from \*one\* bounty hunter do not think very far. I would expect a clone army with ten or hundred people contributing, maybe from different races. If this army is exposed to a germ, all will catch it at the same time, any genectic deficiencies will show up in all of the clones, and so on. **The cloning process would logically be designed to eliminate those issues.**
48. *Brian Fitzgerald on Thursday, May 23, 2002 - 10:01 am:* Various passages in some of the novels (the Zahn trilogy, for instance) give the impression that cloning facilities were destroyed AFTER the Clone Wars. That's why clones are such a big deal when Grand Admiral Thrawn gets ahold of them in "The Last Command." **Perhaps after becoming emperor Palpatine realizes that it is cheaper to use recruits/draftees as troopers. They needed the clones because they needed to form the army quickly and easily. Once he has consolidated his power he can press people into the service quickly and easily.**
49. *Dooku of Earl Grey on Saturday, May 25, 2002 - 7:39 pm:* The final scene shows Anakin with a new mechanical hand that looks very much like a Terminator hand with no flesh on it. Assuming the same technology is available for Anakin to have the replacement hand look human (like Luke had in Empire Strikes Back), why did he get the hand replaced only to this point? Couldn't he and Amidala wait on the wedding a few more minutes? ***Adam on Saturday, May 25, 2002 - 8:29 pm:* Because the clone wars hasn't really got going yet. In fact there hasn't been a 'real' war senes the formation of the Republic thousands of years ago. That being the case, artificial limb technology has been kind of on the back burner. They've been making giant chrome starships instead useful thing. Yet another indication that this is a society that has grown soft and complacent.**
50. *Nobody on Saturday, May 25, 2002 - 8:55 pm:* Somebody explain this to me, if you please. A big point is made of the clonetroopers being clones of Jango Fett. My question is: why does it matter who they're clones of? Of course, you wouldn't want somebody with bad genes, but generally speaking I think that just about anyone, raised under the regimented conditions we see, could end up a more than capable soldier. And since any cell may produce a viable clone, the genetic material shouldn't be hard to acquire.
Perhaps there are legal issues here -- Fett had to give permission to be cloned, clearly. So why not clone somebody who's dead, and therefore beyond the law's protection? And just how legal minded are these illicit operations, anyway? **Cells from a dead person may not be suitable as a source material for cloning.**
51. *LUIGI NOVI on Sunday, May 26, 2002 - 4:51 pm:* By definition, a queen is a female sovereign, or chief in a monarchy, not an elected ruler, yet this movie asserts that Naboo monarchs are elected which makes no sense. They should properly be called presidents or prime ministers.***Electron on Sunday, May 26, 2002 - 6:14 pm:''*The German kings were elected too. Ok, during the dynastic times it was just pro forma, but nevertheless it was an election.**
52. What mentally retarded society elected a 15-year old (younger if Amidala was at the end of her term in Phantom Menace) as the sovereign ruler of their planet? Who counted the votes, Katherine Harris and Jeb Bush? ***Electron on Sunday, May 26, 2002 - 6:14 pm:''*The Mighty Oracle of Naboo decided it! Just kidding, but the Dalai Lama was too chosen at a very early age. But then, he wouldn't resign.**
53. Why does the alien that greets Obi-Wan at Kamino tell him they were expecting him? She says, "After all these years, we were beginning to think you weren’t coming." If that’s true, how does it make any sense that they were "expecting" him? **She’s not referring to him specifically, but to the Jedi in general.**
54. The clones seen eating in that dining area look just like Jango Fett. A common misconception about clones: They don’t look identical to the cell donor. Clones are equivalent to fraternal twins, not identical twins. ***Brian Fitzgerald on Sunday, May 26, 2002 - 9:19 pm:''*What? As I understand it a clone is an asexual duplicate of an organism that has exactly the same DNA as the other organism. If they have the same DNA they look the same (with obvious exceptions as far as hairstyle, fitness level & suntan)**
55. When the battle droid’s head is affixed to Threepio’s body in the assmebly line, he vocalizes in surprise to his body, but none of the other droids seemed to be turned on yet. Why is he?***Josh M on Monday, May 27, 2002 - 1:51 am:* It appears that 3PO's head and body are independent of each other in some ways. When they are separated, they both stay active. Since 3PO's body is active when the battle droid's head is put onto it it apparently activates the head.**
56. *Josh M on Monday, May 27, 2002 - 1:51 am:* I know this was a nit in TPM but what happened to the destroyer droids' shields? They probably would have been very useful in the final battle. **They may have been removed due to excess power usage.**
57. Why are regular battle droids were still being made, even with the advanced model? **Easier and cheaper to produce.**
58. *LUIGI NOVI on Monday, May 27, 2002 - 11:27 pm:* Why didn’t the assassination droid immediately high-tail it out of there as soon as the worms left the canisters? Why did it stick around and wait for the worms to crawl onto Amidala’s bed, for Anakin and Obi-Wan to rush in, and for Obi-Wan to crash out the window. If it was there to monitor the success of the assassination, why didn’t it just detach a small camera that Obi-Wan wouldn’t have seen, and then just haul ass? **It may not have been possible/prudent to leave a camera behind.**
59. Someone here wondered why Anakin never tried to go to Tattoine to free or just see Shmi. Why didn’t she try sending a message to him once Cligg Lars freed her? **Most likely not permitted under the rules of the Jedi Order.**
60. If Yoda is that strong, either physically or force-wise, what the hell does he need a cane for? *Josh M on Tuesday, May 28, 2002 - 12:27 pm:* If the Expanded Universe is correct, using the Force 24/7 is a great drain on Jedi and other Force users. If Yoda used it so that he had that much strength or even just walk normally, he'd tire in a short time. ***SeniramUK (talk) 15:05, 10 October 2023 (UTC)*Maybe it’s a form of psychological camouflage, to lull opponents into a false sense of security!**
61. *Lolar Windrunner on Tuesday, June 04, 2002 - 4:46 pm:* I was thinking about this. Earlier someone mentioned why didn't Anakin's mother try to contact him after she got freed. Maybe she did but since she didn't know exactly where in the galaxy he was she contacted the jedi council who, since they didn't want attachments for their padawans, returned her letter (email whatever) with a polite message to back off hes busy. As for anakin maybe Obi and the others kept the news from him. Just an idea that we came up with at work while talking about different conspiracy theories. ***Influx on Wednesday, June 05, 2002 - 8:08 am:* This could be the thing that turns Anakin to the dark side. E.G. He finds out later on that the Jedi knew his mother had been captured, and kept the info from him in order for him to focus on his training or something. There has to be some "last straw" that pushes him over the edge in the next movie.**
62. *KGood on Friday, June 07, 2002 - 6:38 am:* The opening crawl refers to Count Dooku pulling in planets from other SOLAR systems. As has been discussed on several Trek boards, this usage is completely incorrect, as Solar refers to our sun, Sol. If this takes place in a galaxy far, far away, Sol would have nothing to do with it. It should be STAR systems. ***ScottN on Friday, June 07, 2002 - 9:10 am:* "Solar System" is a generic term for planetary systems.**
63. *Sven of Nine on Friday, June 07, 2002 - 8:30 pm:* The cute filler scene where Yoda embarrasses Obi-Wan in front of several little padawans has a nit! Look at the shadows of the children on the floor, and you'll notice that their lightsabre blades do not appear as a shadow of any form at all! (as if the actors were just waving a torch in their hands :)) This raises a question: do lightsabres form a shadow when light is cast upon them? ***Jedi Outcast on Sunday, June 09, 2002 - 1:45 pm:* Why would they? Light itself doesn't make shadows, the last time I checked. I'm actually glad that the film makers got this right, considering the number of times in the classic films that the poles (blades) have casted shadows on the floors.**
64. *JM on Friday, June 21, 2002 - 1:30 am:* With two suns, shouldn't everyone have two shadows? Or are the suns too far away for that? ***Brian Fitzgerald on Friday, June 21, 2002 - 11:17 am:* According to the IMDB's "incorrectly regarded as goofs" entry for EP IV the suns are too far away and too close together to give people 2 shadows.**
65. *EnterTheVomitorium on Monday, February 24, 2003 - 10:40 am:* One of the problems in working a multi-series of movies in reverse (prequels done after the sequels) is that the overall technology in the universe seems to be much better earlier in history than later! I thought about this esp in the asteriod scene, where Janga Fett's ship readouts (cool red!) are so much superior to the, say, anti-aircraft guns of the MF after it escapes from the Death Star. Given that you cant really dumb down the tech, how can one explain why the Republic's tech level is seen to \*decrease\* over time rather than advance? ***Brian Fitzgerald on Monday, February 24, 2003 - 6:37 pm:* This doesn't explain the tech readouts but the Ep I cross-section book explains in the age of the Republic their hadn't been a full scale war in centuries and millitary craft like the Nubian fighters were designed sleekly for apperance reasons since they were more likely to be used in millitary/government cerimoney than a real way. After 30 years of the empire, rebel craft were built to be functional only. *Lolar Windrunner on Monday, February 24, 2003 - 7:03 pm:* And the Falcon was originally just a freighter that was modified and upgraded heavily by its various owners.**
66. *Derf on Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - 1:07 am:* The title "Darth Tyranus" is NEVER spoken by anyone in AOTC! HOWEVER, the Darth Sidious calls him LORD Tyranus in AOTC!!! [Refer to the scene just after Count Dooku returns to Sidius's planet and announces the news that "war has begun"] DOES this mean he ISN'T a Darth? (Whatever the heck THAT means) ***ScottN on Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - 8:46 am:* Not necessarily. Remember, in ANH, Vader is sometimes referred to as "Lord Vader". *Josh M on Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - 1:19 pm:* In fact, I don't ever remember an Imperial lower than Vader calling him "Darth". Obi-Wan did and maybe Tarkin did once, but that's it. *Darth Sarcasm on Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - 8:09 pm:* Leia was the first to call him "Darth" in ANH. Ben referred to Vader as "Darth" when he told Luke the story of how his father died and later during his duel with Vader. I don't think Tarkin ever referred to him as "Darth." In fact, I'm struggling to remember if anyone referred to him as "Darth" other than those two. Maybe Luke when he asked Yoda if he was his father. *Jedi Outcast on Wednesday, July 30, 2003 - 12:23 pm:* Luke did call him Darth in that instance, yes. *John A. Lang on Thursday, July 31, 2003 - 7:43 am:*If I'm not mistaken, anyone who is a master of the Dark Side of the Force is called: "Darth (insert sinister name), Lord of the Sith" So, the honorific title "lord" & Darth" are in essense, both correct.*Jedi Outcast on Thursday, October 23, 2003 - 7:16 am:* Actually, I think "Darth" is specific to the Sith. I wish I could remember where I read this, but somewhere I saw that Darth stands for DARk Lord of the SiTH. I'm not swearing to it but I think it might have been one of those semi-official reference books that gets published every so often.**
67. *Dooku of Earl Grey on Friday, November 14, 2003 - 11:51 am:* OK, so Count Dooku gets away from Yoda by causing a distraction, that is, making a large, heavy object fall on Obi-Wan and Anakin. Yoda stops fighting in order to save them, which he does by diverting the object, and Dooku slips out in the interim. Wouldn't it have been less hastle just to use the force to push Obi-Wan and Anakin themselves out of the way? It would have taken less time, and Dooku would not have escaped.
Now, I know that in ESB, when Luke fails to retrieve his sunken X-wing and says that "it's too big," Yoda counters with, "Size matters not." Well, from what we see here, size does seem to matter. Yoda apparently has a lot less trouble deflecting the pieces of debris Dooku throws at him than than that last behemoth piece of junk. Has Yoda himself not yet learned the lesson that it's "different only in your mind"? ***Obi-Juan on Saturday, November 15, 2003 - 8:39 pm:* Yoda had no way of knowing how serious Obi-Wan and Anakin were injured. Moving them might have done more harm than good. The safe route was to divert the power conduit. Speaking of that conduit, it was obviously giving off sparks when Dooku toppled it. Yoda might not have had trouble levitating the object due to size as much as he was trying to prevent energy discharges from frying the Jedi below it. *Christopher Q on Tuesday, November 18, 2003 - 12:34 pm:* Also keep in mind that Dooku may have been using the Force to apply 'pressure' to the object to fight against Yoda trying to stop it. So, not only was Yoda fighting gravity, but he was also fighting the Dark Side.**
68. *Adam on Wednesday, May 04, 2005 - 5:16 pm:* Palpatine says "I love democracy, I love The Republic...." Which is it? Is it a democracy or a republic? ***constanze on Thursday, May 05, 2005 - 1:31 am:* Both. Democracy means elected by the people; republic means federalized states (usually with a democratic structure). Since the Republic consists of several planets, and each member world has the same "ranking" (importance) as others, it's a republic; since it works democratic, it's a democracy.
[democracy, from greek: demos= people, kratein= to rule: a form of rule, where the state is governed by the will of the people.
republic, from lat. res publica = State: a form of rule, where the government is elected for a certain period of time. From my word definitions lexicon; a big lexicon will give a more thorough entry.] *Anonymous on Friday, May 06, 2005 - 12:04 am:* It's a republic where the representatives are elected democratically. Odd they call it a senate, though, since it seems more like a parliamentary type of setup. I guess it's just something is lost in the translation between Basic and English. *Obi-Juan on Thursday, May 12, 2005 - 8:00 pm:*It's tough to get a grip on the politics of the Galactic Senate. After all, Amidala was the "recently elected ruler of the Naboo" according to Palpatine, and she held the title of Queen.*Keith Alan Morgan (Kmorgan) on Friday, August 02, 2002 - 4:31 am:* The idea of an electable queen reminded me of a Ron Goulart story, The Waker Sleeps, where at one point the hero notices that the Queen of England is a guy & is told that it's now an electable position.**
69. *Keith Alan Morgan (Kmorgan) on Friday, August 02, 2002 - 4:31 am:* Either Obi-Wan & Anakin are talking rather loud or the walls in that hotel are rather thin. Surprisingly they don't wake Padme with their arguing. **Maybe she’s a heavy sleeper!**
70. *John A. Lang on Tuesday, November 19, 2002 - 8:10 pm:* The Jedi ship that Obi Wan travels in has a detachable hyperdrive section. Does that seem right? What if you needed hyperdrive RIGHT NOW? ***Jedi Outcast on Wednesday, November 20, 2002 - 9:44 am:* For that matter, what if an enemy ship sees this thing and either hijacks it or destroys it? *Brian Fitzgerald on Wednesday, November 20, 2002 - 7:46 pm:* That would be a problem but if the hyperdrive made the fighter to heavy to manuver in battle that would be a bigger problem. *Brian Webber on Thursday, November 21, 2002 - 3:07 pm:*Plus, it did MOVE after Obi-Wan disconnected. Maybe it has a "power down and hide" A.I. operating system. *Desmond on Thursday, November 21, 2002 - 8:28 pm:* I was always under the impression that the hyperdrive wasn't an element of that specific ship; that it was an interchangable section used only for faster-than-light travel--sort of like renting a car. *Starkist on Thursday, November 21, 2002 - 9:05 pm:* It is. One of the deleted scenes shows the Jedi Starfighter leaving Coruscant and picking up one of several dozen hyperspace rings in orbit.**
71. *John A. Lang on Friday, November 22, 2002 - 6:10 am:* The buildings of Coruscant make no architectural sense at all. They appear to be at least 9,000 stories high! God forbid there should be a fire in one of those buildings, several thousand people would perish because there appears to be no fire escape ladders anywhere. Also it would take considerable time to evacuate all those floors and people would die from smoke inhalation. Not to mention if they should have a storm with 50 mph winds, the building would start swaying in the wind until the structure would collapse under the constant swaying and break and fall over...forcing the other buildings to topple over like a row of dominoes! Not a good design. ***Bob Freeman on Friday, November 22, 2002 - 7:16 am:* The entire planet is one giant building man, I am sure they have taken these things into factorization.*Darth Sarcasm on Friday, November 22, 2002 - 10:04 am:* Furthermore, is it even possible for Coruscant to have naturally-occuring storms? There are no large enough bodies of water to provide the atmosphere with the moisture and pressure variances necessary in order to make storms.
The start of the film shows a heavy cloud/fog bank, leading me to believe that there is some kind of weather system in place. But more likely it's manufactured, monitored, and contained... so harsh winds are unlikely.
As for fires... most skyscrapers today do not have exterior fire escapes. And only in extreme circumstances (like the WTC) would it be impossible for someone to escape one. And we can also assume that in the Star Wars universe, they have more sophisticated means to deal with fires than we have today... these are, after all, the same people who can put a city in the clouds. *Padawan Observer on Friday, November 22, 2002 - 10:12 am:* And we can also assume that in the Star Wars universe, they have more sophisticated means to deal with fires than we have today…**
72. *John A. Lang on Friday, November 22, 2002 - 6:26 am:* With all the advanced technology that everyone seems to have, it appears nobody has invented the UMBRELLA yet. Or better yet, A RAINCOAT....seeing how Obi Wan is soaking wet when he arrives at Kammino. Granted, he may not have known what the weather was going to be like, but most people carry an umbrella in their car JUST IN CASE it might rain! Also there appears to be no radio stations to broadcast weather conditions. You'd think that AM / FM radio transmissions would be pretty basic..seeing how most people in the "Star Wars" universe has holographic technology. ***Bob Freeman on Friday, November 22, 2002 - 7:16 am:* As for the weather, Kaminio was a secret planet and i doubt the local weather channel would be having anything on them since its kinda hard to know about a planet that ain't supposed to be there**
73. *Adam on Friday, November 22, 2002 - 11:45 am:* I doubt Obi-wan cared if he got a little rain on him. He's \*probably\* been wetter then that (thinking back to his swim to Otho-Gunga).
74. *John A. Lang on Tuesday, November 26, 2002 - 7:07 pm:* How is it that Count Dooku seemed to not know where the Senate obtained the Clone Army? Didn't Jango Fett convey that information to him? Or did Jango Fett tell him and Dooku was lying to the Geonosians about not knowing? ***Merat on Tuesday, November 26, 2002 - 8:35 pm:* I believe that Dooku was lying to pretty much everyone in the movie with the possible exception of Sidious.**
75. *Obi-Juan on Sunday, December 08, 2002 - 9:15 am:* Consider this. The clones were ordered about 10 years before the events in AOTC. The Kamino-ians probably began production the same year Master Syphodius placed the order. That would mean the genetic sample of Jango Fett would have been taken 10 years ago, or longer, if they already had the sample prior to the placing of the order.
Now, the cloning involves a "greatly accelerated growth process", which they do not define, but you'd figure a few years at a minimum. When Obi Wan tours the operation, they have 250k soldiers ready to go, so figure at least 4-5 years to grow the clone to full maturity.

They show a large number of Jango Fett clones eating in a cafeteria, and they all look like Jango. Why is that? At full maturity, the clones should look just like the donor at the time the sample was taken. All the clones should look at least 4-5 years younger than Jango. ***Brian Webber on Sunday, December 08, 2002 - 11:43 am:* I like how they kind of kept continuity here. These clones took about 10 years (IIRC) to grow and they are OK. The Thrawn Trilogy establishes that that what went hideously wrong causing the second part of the Clone Wars (note the plural on that) was when the Emperor tried to accelerate the growth to just a few months. When he did, all the Clones went ape s\*\*\* and just started killing any and everything in site. The Kaminoans establish this plot point for Ep III (I hope) by saying "If he wants more troops we need more time!" *Josh M on Sunday, December 08, 2002 - 9:22 pm:* Personally, I thought the guys in the cafeteria did look younger than Jango. Maybe the lack of scarring helped.**

1. *KAM on Saturday, August 02, 2003 - 4:00 am:* Good thing the glass Obi-Wan jumped through broke easily. **It could have been weakened by the droid cutting a hole in it!**
2. The assassin pulls out a rifle in the middle of the city and fires at the droid Obi-Wan is hanging onto.
1. Shouldn't target practice be illegal in the middle of the city? Isn't it possible someone could see her with the big ol' rifle and call the police?
2. Wouldn't it just be simpler to have a self-destruct button so she can blow the droid up? ***Adam on Saturday, August 02, 2003 - 9:19 pm:* I suspect target practice (actually attempted murder of a Jedi) is rather illegal. But its dark, nobody is really looking, its not in the best part of town, it happens rather quickly, the local cops aren't really anywhere around… *KAM on Sunday, August 03, 2003 - 3:03 am:* So even in a galaxy far, far away, and a long, long, long time ago, cops are busy stuffing their faces at some donut shop, eh? *Merat on Sunday, August 03, 2003 - 7:33 pm:* Wasn't the rifle behind a panel on her vehicle? If so, then the time between her taking the rifle out and fleeing isn't really long enough for the police to arrive.**