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   From: david@block.net   
      
   On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 18:47:32 GMT, "SpammersDie"  wrote:   
      
   >   
   >"David Johnston"  wrote in message   
   >news:4m0b6399l66gsi3trun27vhl5v2npik7ud@4ax.com...   
   >> On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 05:08:28 -0700, SFTVratings   
   >>  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>On Jun 4, 12:42 pm, Bill Steele  wrote:   
   >>>> In article <1180735370.923758.6...@q66g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>,   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>>  SFTVratings  wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>> > ....And what does Jedi Master Obi-wan do?  He   
   >>>> > jumps through a window, grabs the assassin droid, and proceeds to   
   >>>> > almost get killed when the droid blows-up, and he falls to his death.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> > But of course Anakin Skywalker saves Obi-wan from his own stupidity,   
   >>>> > by just barely arriving in time, and catching him Obi-wan with his   
   >>>> > floating car.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> > Then Anakin jumps out.   
   >>>> > And he falls and falls and falls.   
   >>>> > I thought Jedi were more intelligent than to take foolish risks.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Jedi perhaps. Movie directors no. Foolish risks, followed by falls and   
   >>>> such and miraculous escapes, are what make a movie fun to watch.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>Only if the viewer is an idiot.  Foolish risks don't make me think   
   >>>it's a good movie; they make me think the characters are stupid &   
   >>>ditto the writer.   
   >>   
   >> Where was the risk?   They've got precognition.   
   >   
   >Their precognition is far from dependable.   
      
   It's dependable enough that they can walk into a gun fight armed with   
   a knife and know that not a single shot will hit them.   
      
   >   
   >If it were, Mace would have nuked the Senate offices from orbit rather than   
   >face Palpatine   
      
   Palpatine, having force powers of his own, is obviously a special   
   case.   
      
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