• MudMan@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    See, it’s not about plot holes.

    “Plot holes” are a pretty useless concept anyway. Star Wars as a franchise goes so far out of its way to plug “plot holes”, and it does absolutely nothing for its consistency or coherence.

    Case in point, Obi Wan the TV series goes out of its way to justify the goofy, inconsistent use of “Darth” as a first name during the Death Star fight and all that did was break the hell out of suspension of disbelief. See also: the entirety of Solo.

    It’s about how you as a human can discern meaning. And yeah, in the original Star Wars Jedi Knights are meant to mostly just have been knights, like medieval knights, and likely not fundamentally connected to the idea of the Force. And the robes hermit look is supposed to be mostly Ben’s whole deal, not a Jedi uniform, and Vader is clearly supposed to mostly be a glorified henchman.

    And it’s fine when you come back for Empire and a bunch of those things are no longer quite true. You shrug it off. Star Wars is “from a certain point of view: the franchise” and it’s absolutely to its detriment.

    • ryathal@sh.itjust.works
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      9 months ago

      I’m not sure you can use the massive plot hole creation device that is the Obi-Wan series to defend anything plot related.