Ben and I watched the end of Return of the Jedi on SpikeHD the other night and I noticed a HUGELY INSIGNIFICANT nitpick I hadn’t ever before.
At the end of the movie (spoiler alert!) Luke burns Darth Vader’s body on a funeral pyre made of logs. The tapered log ends are clearly cut with an axe. Are we to believe that Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker, anxious to get back to his friends and the celebration, dug up an axe from somewhere and cut down the trees the difficult, time-consuming, old-fashioned way? Wouldn’t he have just cut them down cleanly and quickly using, oh, I don’t know, his LIGHTSABER?!?
As I said, it’s a nitpick. Think how impressed you’d be, though, if they had thought it through and all the logs were cut squarely across with cauterizing burns on the ends? Yeah, that’s right. Very impressed indeed.
3 comments:
I know this is a stretch, but what if
the said offending logs were ones the
Ewoks had laying around, ones that were cut months ago so they could cure long enough to properly burn and just maybe cut with the Ewok ax equivalent?
I know, it is hard to imagine this, but try.
No need to be condescending.
I think that's quite a clever explanation. One of the pleasures of nitpicking is finding a reasonable explanation that adds a little depth to the story.
I don't think Paul was being condescending to *you.* I think it's just hard to imagine the Ewoks being useful in any way.
Other than, of course, taking out trained, armored Stormtroopers using nothing but rocks.
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