I could be wrong but, from the little I saw of those old serials, they had a lot of violence in them (mostly implied, but still). My perception is that kids were considered to be in much less need of "protecting" in those days.

Beru.

Yeah, that works, but it's so lame that the movie forces us to speculate and outright invent stuff so it makes sense.

I like that, when Luke says "I hate the Empire too, but…", you know he's talking out of his ass. Then the Empire kills his family and leaves their charred bodies out in the open. Now he doesn't have to say it.

Every time a jedi goes somewhere in the prequels, everybody they encounter seems to be privy to who they are and what they do, even in a backward shithole like Tatooine.

The only kind of jedi training we really saw were those kids doing the exact same thing Luke did in the Millenium Falcon. You'd think deadly weapons would be like advanced training, but no, they apparently give them to small children (sorry, "younglings") right off the bat.

Good idea (so many of those floating around these comments), but then they wouldn't be kid-friendly, which was the whole point of their existence. The toys would be cooler, though.

That was implied, but yes, exactly. Seems like less than 20 years is enough for something in this galaxy to be considered ancient history.

Yeah, that's true. She was basically a Plan B that never had to be used. That scene, though…

"But also aboard that ship are Commander Nefarious, Captain I'm-a-bad-guy and Admiral Bone-to-pick. But they don't mention them."

Also, that "There is another" moment where we see the X-Wing taking off just through the lighting changes on Yoda's face, which would still look pretty without the line I guess, but becomes so memorable because of it.

Yeah, it doesn't make a lick of sense that people refer to the jedi with skepticism in the OT when, in the prequels, they had a huge temple right in the middle of the Capital and routinely participated in political affairs.

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"If into the security recordings you go, only pain will you find" doesn't get quoted nearly enough as the single worst line in these movies. Something about hearing a very matter-of-fact warning stated in such a roundabout way makes me laugh, which was the opposite of what was intended.

That actually makes sense. If the Jedi Council decided to keep Anakin even while sensing *grave danger* in his training, they must've taken all kinds of dipshits with the minimum midichlorian count.

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They clearly avoided human faces. I don't know if they would've had to pay the actors and didn't want to, or if the villain's faces are just cooler.

Because the movies are his creative expression. Is a little more personal; it's a smack to his ego (and everybody has an ego). Also, I don't think the number of naysayers is that small.

First saw them when I was about five, but I'm not nostalgic at all (a lot of the stuff I loved as a kid I find unbearable now). Still think the first two are great movies, for purely cinematic reasons. Don't consider them masterpieces or anything (they wouldn't crack my top 100), but can appreciate them as…

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