Reacting to Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (FIRST TIME WATCHING!!) 

YES lollll

That’s a scary comment on its own lol

*Tragedy intensifies*

Ara ara!

FBI Open the door!

well he was! I use to be a big nerd back then and never got the hate

It’s get even worse when you realize the haters were 40 year old virgins who forgot Star Wars was made for kids.

It was Lucas's dialogue and direction that cemented Lloyd's midiclorically bad acting. Almost everyone sucked in the prequels except maybe MacGregor. This was on Lucas. The cast is solid with great performances before and since. I never blamed Lloyd. It sucks that he got so much shit.

Yeah right? I thought he was great

He’s sadly in a psychiatric facility now due to the bullying and harassment he received due to the ‘fans’

And it just goes to show how much people will just hate on whatever is new. I can't wait for another 20 years to go by and see more love for the sequels as the kids that grew up with those get a voice online. Just as people from my generation who grew up with the prequels being released have been able to spread more love for them despite the hate they got at release from the, at the time, older generations who only grew up with the OT.

​@@Galiant2010 I disagree that people disliked this movie just because it was new. It is objectively worse than the original trilogy, with too much needless goofiness, an over-reliance on CGI and worse writing. That being said and I would not blame Jake Loyd one bit for that, as it is pretty much the fault of George Lucas and his team, and I still enjoy the movie for what it is, despite its big flaws.

@@Galiant2010 Problem is the sequels are not only bad storytelling wise, they are also made from an "entitled" position which makes them hard to remedy. There is a whole expanded universe of games and novels with amazing stories Disney simply discarded (they made an official statment about it!) and substituted it with incoherent SJW stuff and proclaimed that as canon instead. The golden rule of art is - if you can't maintain the quality of a piece, let alone improve it, don't mess with it. But Disney did. That's what I and many others hold against the sequels.

@@malyvo0 what was SJW about it?

And now the same thing happens with anyone who was involved in the sequels. This fandom never learns

@Jeremy Brookes good good. Something something dark side.

If they followed through on Darth Jar Jar, people may have changed that opinion. Personally i find Jar Jar infinitely less annoying than C3P0

We need to see her reaction to the Robot Chicken Star Wars skits. Specifically the one where Darth Vader jettisons Jar Jar out of an airlock.

@Jeremy Brookes He was a twentysomething year old dancer when Lucas cast him... and it was essentially a voice over role for all practical purposes. I understand he performed on-set, but it wasn't like anybody knew what he looked like. He's likely made more money from his association with Star Wars than he would have otherwise. Does that excuse stupid people who lash out at actors for being in a crappy role / movie? Of course not... but I'm not going to play along with any goofball guilt trips. I proudly proclaim my overall disdain for Jar-Jar... while also proudly proclaiming that all the blame falls only at the feet of Lucas. Also, just glancing at his resume on IMDB, he still seems to get semi-regular non-Star Wars related work. He's probably more likely to get a gig than Hayden Christensen at this point.

It's more like,"Let the wisdom flow through you"

And that explains why she doubted herself, because the characters are played by two different actors, and they swap between scenes. :P

I was just going to comment about kira.

I never got that part and still dont. So, the queen's name is Padme" Or is padme the handmaiden./ royal guard?.... I Understood the Matrix on the first watch in summer 1999............

@@captainprototype187 the queens full name is queen padamé Amidala but only the naboo councile know her full name to everyone else she is queen Amidala and because she doesn't know if she can fully trust the jedi she poses as her own handmaiden padamé. She also feel at the same time she is still safer with them than on the ship and she wants to check out whether she csn trust the jedi covertly.

@@BobarissGish Bruh. Its Padme. Not Padame.

I might have said exactly that had I not read your comment.

His acting wasn't "that" bad... but the writing and direction he was given were horrible.

Yeah the story of Jake Lloyd and Ahmed Best are tragic. If you dislike a character, please don't ventilate your disappointment at the actor. :(

Unfortunately people apply this to daisy ridley too....i wonder how shes taking if

@@yamimayonnaise5378 people also apply this to Kelly Marie tran, who gets a ton of hate for her role, even though she herself is a nice person, people hate on her because of the role she got

omgggggg but why

@@graceonfilmsnstuff because he was a kid at the time. And too many people (many of whom were adults) took out their anger on him and mocked him. All because they didn't like an 11 year old boy's acting performance. And whether you think he did a good job or not, he was still a kid. That's why.

@@jonathanbowling2904 i hate toxic fandoms like tht

@@graceonfilmsnstuff I dislike it as well.

@@graceonfilmsnstuff what Fandom isn't toxic I'm genuinely curious

If I remember correctly, when they were in their makeup on set, their mothers couldn’t tell them apart. They really do look so absurdly alike.

@@JeffKelly03 Yeah, I remember reading that in some interview back when the movie came out in 1999. Supposedly even Kiera Knightley's mom had trouble telling her and Natalie Portman apart on set because they looked and sounded so much alike.

Yeah, it's Keira Knightley playin the queen when she's wearing black, and on the ship while Portman is away, but it's Portman on Coruscant and when she's wearing red in the beginning and white at the end (obviously).

Keira Knightley ("Pirates of the Caribbean", "The Imitation Game") :)

@Scribbly No. Other way around. When Padme went with them, the decoy stayed behind on the ship decoying. That's also why a simple handmaiden even had a bodyguard with her (though only one).

You could probably wake up Hayden and Ewon any time and they could do the choreo then and there. Edit: it's not Liam in Ep III, although he also has a very particular set of skills...

Also fun-fact: Ewan McGregor is such a fan of the OT that he used to do make-believe lightsabre duels as a kid, so he had to be told not to make his own "vzzzz" sound effects 😄 Also-also fun fact: Ewan's uncle is Denis Lawson, who played Wedge in the OT 🙂

Another fun fact, the Star Wars opening orchestration is in the same key as the 20th century fox opening.

Ray Park who played Darth Maul still does Light saber stuff at conventions. You can find some of them on youtube.

@@bishopman2308 he also protrayed Darth Maul again once again in the clone war season finale. In mocap Edit: misspoke

And so ironic

Same goes for Ahmed Best, who played Jar Jar. Which is a shame, I met him in real life and he seems like a great dude.

@@generic_sauce Definitely. I always empathized more with Jake because he was so young, but what happened to Ahmed was awful as well. The thing is, regardless of the time, I never thought that the criticism for Jake or Anakin was valid. Jar jar was legitimately annoying, although I do love him. Jake on the other hand was adorable and a good actor just like she said in the video. Both situations were terrible though...

The Original Trilogy Purist Fans are probably the most agressive and toxic fans ever.

@@corbanwoosley6891 Only thing against Jake was he had some bad lines that just don't feel natural for a kid. I think if you take the poop jokes away from Jar Jar he's more bearable.

@@notanactualuser He definitely had some cheesy lines. Like many people in Star Wars. But Jake was still a good actor.

...named Natalie...?

@@garmisra7841 C O N S P I R A C Y

@@garmisra7841 oh shit

Hey,don't talk that way about Palpatine,he's just really old and crusty

Coincidence I think NOT!

Couldn't agree more. Hearing her talk so highly of him and be moved by some of his scenes was really great. I only hope there is a way he could see that some day.

You guys are right. I wasn't crazy about his performance, but the way fans talked about him was shitty. Reeeeal shitty.

Sad what became of him. Hopefully he can continue treatment and be live a more fulfilling life

I'm glad someone liked Jake's performance. He deserved better treatment.

I think Phantom Menace fares a lot better if you could have watched it without the long break between it and episode 6. She has the benefit of watching it without the high expectations that it had amassed from fans over 15 years.

It destroyed more than that. He had underlying mental issues that got seriously exacerbated by all of the harassment that he ended up in a mental hospital.

His life in fact. He is currently in a mental facility after being arrested a few years ago. There is speculation his mom was a Hollywood mother, too, and put a lot of pressure on him.

He's still in a bad way to this day. It's really sad

I feel really bad for him. I thought he did an incredible job

Imagine being bullied for being in star wars.

Spoiler

They used to run Star Wars marathon specials where the premise was that they were examining R2's memory file. It was a cool thing to have in the commercial breaks.

Actually, C3PO also knows the whole story following the events of episode 9.

Thanks for the Fun Fact sidebar.

In the books he and C3PO never had wipes which meant they were more than mere Robots.

Every simple minded fan says that. People forget in the original three movies it was never mentioned because there was no Jedi to do the tests, history was forgotten.

It was never mentioned in the OT because it wasn't needed and adds nothing to the story. Lucas loves to put random unnecessary crap in his movies like with the special edition abominations. It made me laugh when Natalie commented on the random dinosaur skeleton in ep IV

@@johnmonk66 That's part of the tragedy of the Jedi purge. Midi-chlorians represent the ages-spanning knowledge that is forever lost, usually the last casualty of any war.

@Jesus Christ Denton And exactly how did it dispell the magic of the Force? It's the Jedi way of understanding the Great Mystery however it can, using that knowledge to find others across the galaxy and avert them from the path of the Dark. Lucas was all about education. Why do you fear knowledge?

along with "George Lucas you really are an arsehole" (and we were right)

“He should have aimed for his neck instead.”

Should've gone for the head

@@benschultz1784 "I understood that reference."

@@treygoldsworthy1402 "Anything more to say?"...

@@treygoldsworthy1402 Right, a number 7 cut instead of number 5. It was such a plot contrivance when they brought Darth Maul back in The Clone Wars.

Apparently, in ANH, "old Ben" had forgotten that during his years of watching over Luke. There, the Force was just something generated by all living things.

@@TorIverWilhelmsen Still was. The midichlorians were just what enabled beings to tap into it.

that was so dorky, i love every word

Ha! I understood that reference.....to middle school biology. :p

@@TorIverWilhelmsen Midichlorians don’t create the Force they just allow you to connect with it and hear it’s will. Also the Force is created by all living things. “Life creates it, makes it grow”

krudmonger 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

and yet he is the most powerfull sith in universe :D

Sadly, the young actor that voiced Jar-Jar was so humiliated and distraught that everyone hated Jar-Jar he contemplated suicide.

@@garyglaser4998 :( it was one of his first works as well (imdb)... and he's been in like 65 things total so clearly a good actor.

@Jamie Pritchard Clearly it was an over-reaction.

Literally lol Anakin was created as a response to Darth Plagueis meddling.

The "immaculate conception" angle has always bothered me far more than the introduction of midichlorians.

@@308719236 yes but also no because the plageus book is no longer canon

@@Selloca Yes, but does canon really matter anymore when the tripe Disney makes doesn't even come close to the quality of writing in that book? Or many other ones like it? The closest they've gotten is the Mandalorian and even that isn't great when compared to the best Legends has to offer. At this point I, and a good chunk of Star Wars fans, consider the Disney fan fictions to be non-canon. It's sad because they had potential, but they have done nothing but squander it for the last 9 years or so. To say nothing of the disgusting treatment of fan-favorite characters and the fandom at large.

@Tyrannosavage Rekt In theory, I agree. There's some explanation provided at least, and it's all fantasy. You want some real good immaculate conception bullshit; look at the Bible. People are actually trying to fight with your logic and reasoning to make you believe such a thing happened, for real.

Exactly. This is why, to me, the only two movies in the Saga to have happy endings are IV and VI. The rest are either outright or subtly bittersweet.

@@commandercaptain4664 what about 3? And IV is a sad ending. I mean, here is a guy, who has been working for a long time to bring some effective leadership to this galactic union. He works the backchannels and uses very high political skills to work his way up to the top. He is adept, capable, intelligent and competent. He faces insurmountable odds and even has this cult of magic users who at all times attempt to peek at his plans and want nothing more than to see him fail. Why? Because they see his religion and ideas as contrary to their own and therefore "dangerous". This cult by they way has spent over a thousand years indoctrinating and perfecting their propaganda machine, so their ideals are seen as equal to "truth and justice". To me, Star Wars is "wall street" added with "passion of the christ" with lightsabers.

@@olesams It's nice you liked The Phantom Menace. Jake Lloyd was heavily criticized and he was endlessly bullied and persecuted in school for years. My understanding is that he's been in and out of mental institution and feels this movie ruined his life. The film does have its high points but is considered the worst of all the Star Wars movies. Jar Jar Binks went down in history as one of the biggest blunders and most hated characters if all time.

It's a shame Lucas erased Yub Nub from later editions. It's more joyous than the music that replaced it

I thought I knew everything there was to know about the music from Star Wars, as I have studied the scores closely for years, but I never knew that! Seriously, that's just plain genius.

George Lucas confirmed this, but he may have been trolling just so people would stop asking

That's not a fan theory. There's an old Kirosawa film called "The Hidden Fortress," where all the major events are shown from the pov of two peasants. It's considered a classic film. And george has said specifically that R2 and 3P0 play that role in these films In early drafts it was supposed to be from entirely their point of view, but that was just a cute idea, and was abandoned for more traditional story telling. But that idea does still lie at the heart of the story.

The theory is also R2 has never had his mind wiped, someone along the way put a Kyber crystal in him making him force "sensitive", and Vader never destroyed him and no way in hell Anakin forgets R2 or 3PO.

What will be super cool? You realize that literally no one asked so just keep quiet.

There are plenty of flaws in this movie, but the score is not one of them.

@@wizardsuth Agreed!!!

A nice bit of foreshadowing is hidden in the score of the end parade theme. Listen to it on RU-vid, then listen to the Emperor's theme from Empire/Jedi.

@@wizardsuth It's like the song says, John Williams is the man

Walt Disney is still alive? My goodness, he must be like 120 years old!!

I loved the kids books about Obi-Wan being Qui-Gon's apprentice before episode 1. The Jedi Apprentice series. He was basically cast out of the Jedi Order because no one would take him as an apprentice. He was being sent away to an agricultural planet where he could use his Force powers to aid in the healthy growth of crops. But Qui-Gon was also on that ship on a mission and they ended up working together and that's when he finally took Obi-Wan on as an apprentice. And learning that Qui-Gon's first apprentice had turned to the dark side was so intriguing. Like, he had 2 apprentices in his lifetime, and almost a 3rd with Anakin, and the first and Anakin both fell to the dark side, and so did his master, Dooku. He was surrounded by people falling to the dark side. I'm not sure what it means, but it's still always stuck out to me.

It's just too bad Obi-Wan forgot he could run really quickly like in the beginning of the film.

ikr. They all find out when he's checking the midichlorian count. she doesnt suspect a thing about who the emperor is tho >:)

Am I missing something? I mean ts not like that's a secret or anything!

Joseph if you watched any of these reactions lately you would know they always miss qui gon calling him obi wan in the beginning and catch it when qui gon is asking fir a midichlorean count

Obi-Wan Kenobi tbh that’s one of the many problems of this trilogy. You barely get to know the characters. In the original you know off the bat everyone’s name. Obi-Wans name gets mentioned in the beginning of this film but like you say everyone misses it. Qui-Gons name doesn’t get mentioned until they meet Shmi and so for the entire first half you just refer to him as Liam Neeson.

I thought the same thing Jon!!! Lol

No, he didn't come around until episode 7. Wait. Were we _not_ talking about J.J. Abrams?

Of course you did, its like poetry, it rhymes

What a perfect, fitting, and appropriate reaction to Jar Jar 🤣😂

@@officialmonarchmusic What are you talking about? SW ep1 is my fav SW movie, and I'm not saying this to making fun of it

@@zotharr Oops, so sorry. I've been jumping at shadows recently I think. I don't know why. Deepest apologies

Or the cynical version: There were too many Jedi and too few Sith, so Anakin brought some balance.

@@itaialter Only siths ruin balance

But then they made Rise of Skywalker and tossed that idea out the window :(

MarkimusMaximus9 yes:(

Anakin brought balance to the Force when he hunted down the Jedi during Order 66. At that time, the Light Side was much stronger and more prolific throughout the galaxy than the dark side. When Anakin killed all the Jedi, the light side and the dark side were even.

She convinced me that the film is solid except for Jar Jar.

I'm an OT fan and while I didn't love them as much, I still enjoyed them and Maul was Bad Ass. I can confidently say the TV Show really validated the Prequels

The Prequels have a lot of good ideas but are let down by bad direction and inconsistent writing (The Clone Wars TV series actually capitalises on a lot of that missed potential and created better stories and characters than the Prequel films). I always felt kinda sorry for Jar Jar, don’t get me wrong he’s VERY annoying (when you put all your comic relief into a single character then they have to actually be funny! Or else you’ve F’d up royal) but he became the poster boy of the prequels and the bad feelings for everything else that’s wrong with these movies latched onto him as well. But at least his screen time in the next two movies is given over to Anakin, that’s got to be a win right? ... right?

I don't think I'm harshly critical. It's just that the movie starts with a trade dispute? How exciting! Vader starts as a whiny brat? Jar Jar. Darth Maul is so cool, I can't believe we have an antagonist as good as Darth Vader...oh, um, well so much for that.

@Not Yet It's all about perspective. He had a certain type of humor that some people appreciate and others do not. Like all humor it's subjective. I personally never had a problem with it (or the prequels), despite growing up as a kid on the original trilogy myself.

Yea and the Lars Homestead has been inhabited by some locals

When filming scenes of tatooine for episode 1 they went to what George Lucas said resembled the area of the Lars homestead with intention to have the areas of tatooine look the same as the original, but when they began to set preliminary equipment found the original homestead intact less then a quarter mile away hidden by some sand dunes

Imagine being some sheltered Tunisian farmer and one day just happen to come across a massive fucking skeleton in the middle of a sand dune.

The slaves district where Anakin lives is also a real location, modified for the movie.

And the shots where R2 is lost in A New Hope as well as Jabba's palace in Return of the Jedi was filmed in Death Valley, CA

I laughed so hard at that!

Kinda like New York City or Chicago.

It's not bad, its just very weak and underwhelming

And it's gonna take 20 more years before people say this about the sequels. Where once their was hate for the prequels, there is now love and appreciation for them. The same will happen with the sequels, we're just still stuck in the hating phase. And hate leads to suffering.

@@Galiant2010 Not at all. You are so wrong.

@@Galiant2010 The sequels are just fine in my opinion, I have nitpicks of course but you can literally nitpick any film. I watched and enjoyed every one of them and found something to like and/or adore about every one. The SW fan base is just a bunch of awful, loud mouthed jerks who have to have something to complain about or they can't deem themselves or seem relevant anymore, they are just about as bad as the Soulsborne community. The sequels were good movies and honestly, I couldn't agree with your comment more.

Naturally, the prequels along with jar jar are magic compared to the disney sequels

I’m 23 years old and I first watch Star Wars prequel trilogy and original trilogy, when I was 5 years old.

I seen it a lot that people who were disappointed in the prequels do acknowledge that they were great for kids.

wOw...we are the same then.

But you do acknowledge that the original trilogy was much better...right?

I think that the Phantom Menace was orientated for kids a lot, especially Jar-Jar. So, we liked it as kids, it had awesome flashy fights, pretty good story and poodoo jokes. And naturally, the Original Trilogy fans were disappointed since they were not kids at this time, to those it looked silly, they wanted something more grown-up. I still like TPM, and if you cut it some slack for "kid-friendly" moments it looks like a good movie. TPM gave us a lot of awesome things, like badass lightsaber fights, places like Coruscant and the gungan underwater city, Darth Maul, perfect young Obi-wan, cool Qui-Gon, The Duel of Fates, droidekas...

funny how often people just roll the dice on Jar-Jar only to have it blow up on them

Bill Willis If I remember right, The Second Sister does it in Jedi: Fallen Order

Bill Willis 🤣

lol

haha I loved the force dash, my brain made more than enough excuses why they only did it there :D

@@Panelisms she does do it in the game. But yes op was right it never appears in the movies or even the animated series afaik

All true until the hack frauds at Disney/Lucasfilm come in and allow J.J. Abrams to retcon it all and the Sith not being destroyed at all...

Zou Jonathan the prophecy is that he brings balance right? And at this time there are thousands of jedi and only two sith? Surely he brings balance at the time of order 66? By balancing the numbers? I never understood why qui gon and the others were so keen on bringing balance when it is they who are in the ascendancy at the time? Isn’t ROTS when he fulfils the prophecy and brings balance? That’s how i always saw it.

From a certain point of view.

@@JustWillB Well that's a cool theory but I think George Lucas confirmed this one in one of the webisodes

Yeah Disney made it the whole PALPATINE story

A Sith Lord?

@@TK-wk6xd it's a weird fan theory

​@@trickshotsmoviesandcubing2317 They *might* have been quoting Master Windu from Episode III, when Anakin warns him, but it being such a short and simple sentence makes it hard to tell.

@@Lokear that's true. I wrote this comment before being as well-versed in prequel memes as I am now.

Exactly, the only people who enjoy the prequels are people who know almost nothing about the universe and aren't invested at all. Just let the slop flow over you

@@CatholicBossHogg Slop = hatred. Enjoy your slop.

exactly. Anakin was too old, and had very strong attachent to his mother, which later projected to Padme. Which ultimately caused his betrayal of Jedi order.

The Jedi would tend to test and "convince" the parents to hand of their children to the Jedi order shortly after the child had became one year old when the forces connection would either lessen greatly, or would remain thus identifying the child as force sensitive

David Jacobs, SPOILERS

@Spectre N7 I mean, they sucked, but the Empire was way worse.

@Not Yet Definitely a Cult

yeah, literally. The movies never told us that, but according the books, the Jedi test children's blood for midichlorians and take them away from their parents when they are still babies. Jedi don't want their members to have any attachments to other people, because you know, feelings make you vulnerable and stuff. Yet they pair young kids in training with a Master who will become teacher, older sibling, and parent all in one, so they are GOING to form a bond/attachment with this older Jedi...typically in their adolescence, a time when they are most emotionally vulnerable. There are countless novels and comics based on the idea of an unstable Master screwing up their apprentice's thinking or Jedi who go off the deep end when their Master is killed.

MIronLance funny thing is it’s supposed to be a reference to mitochondria! Top athletes tend to have a higher mitochondria counts than average humans.

The thing that always bugged me is that Qui-Gon explains it later pretty clearly but all the prequel haters still said that it "demystified" the force or reduced it to bacteria when in reality he explains that they're more like a radio antenna that connects you to the Force. Like, here's the exact quote from the movie: "Life forms living together for mutual advantage. Without the midi-chlorians, life could not exist, and we would have no knowledge of the Force. They continually speak to you, *telling you the will of the Force*. When you learn to quiet your mind, you will hear them speaking to you." That's it and nothing more is ever said about them in any of the movies. Yet the haters made a huge deal out of it and now because of them everyone thinks The Force = midichlorians.

@Jesus Christ Denton Isn`t it nice, when we can just ignore other peoples opinions and just quantify them as "negative" or "haters". "Alt-right" or "alt-left". The problem is though, that when you have 5 gazillion people spouting the same grievances people kinda zone out. It becomes noise.

@@JingIeFett The force does = midichlorians and I'm not a prequel hater. I love the prequels, still think midichloricans were a moronic idea, which they were. So glad Disney has decided to retcon them. It is literally a measurement that shows your potential force power, it also indicated an actual, measurable substance within the body that you can sample, which completely destroyed the entire point of the force users being a religion. This means that there is no ambiguity of anything, it is just you have midichloricans you are at least somewhat in tune with the force, or you have no midichlorians and you don't. It basically turns the entire Jedi-Sith thing into a game of top trumps. Whoever has the higher midichlorian count inherently has an advantage and has little to do with control or training.

​@@henryofskalitz5212 Completely wrong. *"Life forms living together for mutual advantage. Without the midichlorians, life could not exist, and we would have no knowledge of the Force. They continually speak to you, telling you the will of the Force. When you learn to quiet your mind, you will hear them speaking to you."* Where does it say in that quote that The Force = midichlorians? Yeah, exactly. And, Disney didn't retcon midichlorians, at least not that I'm aware of. Quite the contrary and Baby Yoda is the proof. I'll come back to that. If you think it has little to do with training, then you completely missed the point of the whole prequel trilogy. Anakin had the highest midichlorian count of all time, higher than even Yoda. So if midichlorian count was all that mattered, why did Obi-Wan beat him? Simple really. Obi-Wan had more experience, training, and discipline. It's not just about raw midichlorian count, if it was then Obi-Want would have gotten wrecked. That's what Anakin thought and it was his downfall. You can have all the midichlorians in the universe. But if you don't know how to quiet your mind and listen to them, it's meaningless. On the other hand, you could have a single midichlorian in your entire body, but if you're able to listen to it with complete clarity, you'd be just as powerful. Midichlorians tell you the will of the Force, they are not the Force itself. That's why it's practically a religion and why there's such an emphasis on meditation and training and discipline. Why is Baby Yoda able to do what he does despite little or no training? Why is he more naturally in tune with The Force? Midichlorians are the explanation for the genetic component. It's why Leia was force sensitive even in the OT, despite no training. It's why Luke can say "The Force is strong in my family"--that can only be true if there's a genetic component, even if he didn't know it. That doesn't stop Luke/Anakin from being the chosen one from the prophecy, it doesn't invalidate the semi-religious aspect. See, if anyone could just become a jedi equally easily and genetics played no part whatsoever, then there'd be nothing stopping Obi-Wan from grabbing any random orphan off the street of Tatooine and training an army of jedi, instead of focusing on just Luke. Or Palpatine from training every stormtrooper to have force abilities to improve their aim or to interrogate people. It's why if Luke and Han Solo were both to train to become jedi at the same time, Luke would probably pick it up much faster while Han would likely struggle more and take longer to reach the same level. Midichlorians are simply the reason why some people are more naturally gifted in the force than others. It doesn't mean other people can't also become jedi, just that they might struggle more or have to train harder. It's similar to how some people are naturally good at sports or naturally good at playing the piano and pick it up quickly. They still need to train, and someone with less raw talent but more training can still do better. Like Obi-Wan vs Anakin at Mustafar.

Yes, that's how indoctrination works. If you hammer it into them when they're too innocent to question it, they'll believe all the bullshit you feed them.

Yeah in the prequels

Because of this the jedi were labelled as kidnappers to the dagoran masters who are force sensitive but are more monk like to the force. They connect to the living force and are not warriors. They sense the knowledge and the harmony of the universe.

@@cruherrx it's so they dont turn into space Hitler when their mom dies

@@cruherrx the jedi have a 20,000 year history of doing things. they know what they are talking about.

Hence why its the title awarded to the player who gets killed the most when playing the Star Wars Battlefront video games, hehe

Calling somebody bantha fodder just means, "you're going to die and be fed to banthas," or as trash talk simply means "I'm going to kill you" at this pod race or whatever. Fodder is not slow because it is not alive.

BrianNIL That definition of the term makes far more sense to me. Kind of like saying “you’re dead meat!”

And being called "Bantha Poodoo" means that you've annoyed a small Twi'lek girl.

Banthas are the animals the Sand People ride on. There. Now she has context ;)

Then you realize that the parade music from the end of the movie is actually Palpatine's theme in a major key... In short, John Williams is awesome.

i like your name

@@parzibalamblin1890 roll a charisma check please

Do they bring you through the Milky Way in The Star Tours?

not exactly an amusement park ride, but there was a star wars pod racer game for, if i remember right, the PS1

i thought Star Tours was at Disney in the late 80s?

Or, look up Isle of Man TT races. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qW761udHbGg.html. Nearest to pod racing, imo

@@jrobertlysaght Nintendo 64, Sega Dreamcast & PC

As soon as I saw the notification pop up on my phone for this video. I literally was about to write this exact same comment. Well not the exact same. But the exact same in terms of I to was waiting for this video and I to discovered her videos 3 days ago.

Doesn't she have Great Energy in her Reactions?

I just jumped in to type almost this exact same thing, but you did it already.

These are some of the most entertaining reaction videos that I have seen.

Hey I bet you never noticed DARTH VADER’s mask wasn’t all black either. To show up on film they painted it asymmetrically with gunmetal gray. Notice how his left “cheek” was always shiny in A NEW HOPE.

@@mem1701movies huh that's neat

Me too. Except, he also did the voice of Tal Merrik from Star Wars the clone wars season 2.

Not the biggest star wars nerd i guess 🙃

@@mem1701movies That I did know. I'm a actually Vader in the 501st so it would be pretty sad if that slipped by me

That's sick, wasn't he's fault.

Lol, I guess Ani forgot

Maul underestimate his power

He was supposed to be the villain. Lol

But he's the key to all of this.

@@eskreskao Yes, unfortunately. Jar jar has that superpower of every mistake he makes leads to something the hero needs.

@@Briansgate But he is not as powerful with Deus ex Machina as Rey is. She has the ability to do everything herself, no experience needed.

@@Briansgate I still think that it's entirely plausible that Lucas intended him to be the secret Sith Lord manipulating from behind a mask of clueless incompetence.

roman legionhare sure cause luke didn’t do this at all either

Now it's 310K!

Martin Frank well said that’s exactly how interpret it

actually george has implied that his idea was partially that the Midicholrians are the force itself. he has talked about how mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell. and in canon lore it states that some theorize that the midcholorians are literally the force itself

@@houseofaction No. He has never implied that. That's just what the fans misinterpreted. The midi-chlorians were always just the gateway between life and the Force, explaining why not just anyone can communicate with the Force. The Force itself, however, was always an omnipresent energy field that connects all there is.

I have always thought of midiclorians as independant single-celled organisms (like mitochondria) that are sustained by the force and thus those with a stronger connection to the force have more midiclorians because they present a more ideal environment for the midiclorians to survive and flourish in

I don't doubt that was part of the story. My only opinion about that, is he didn't have much time to say that because it was only a very short time later that Obi-won killed him.

@@tomlompa6598 Not really. I won't spoil nothing though.

@Not Yet qui gon isn't the first jedi to do that. he is just the first jedi of his era to do so

A good description. Malcolm Reynolds and the Serenity were heavily inspired by Han Solo and the Millennium Falcon, scoundrels with hearts of gold and their beloved ships that everyone else saw as garbage. Changing a couple of details here and there and I could absolutely see the plots of different Firefly episodes work with Han and Chewie aboard the Falcon.

Firefly was/is amazing.

@Cain To be fair, a city-planet WAS still pretty 'original' back in the 1940s. I'm not saying Asimov WAS the first to come up with the idea, (though he COULD have been) but it is fair to say that he is most likely the earliest & most famous example of using that idea!

Foundation also has a Captain Han. Lucas may have pilfered a few things.

The concept of a whole world being a single city has existed since ancient Rome.

@@vetarlittorf1807 I think that's a little bit of a stretch, have you even read Asimovs description of Trantor? If you made a film of the Foundation series...Trantor would look *exactly* like Coruscant.

YES! In my opinion, Rogue One is one of the very best in the whole franchise.

or did he?

@@CarcPazu he did. Disney isn't canon

@@kevmasengale6903 Oh my sweet summer child...

@@kevmasengale6903 he has a clone -_-

@@rashyyy3243 General Kenobi..

Someones been watching star wars theory

@@frenchynoob he's a smart guy. But even so, there's something different about love from a father than a mother. Psychologically, a mothers love is a general guarantee, like a safety net. But a fathers love is in another realm than the nurturing. It's the force a boy needs to know he's a man, one to challenge him and see that the boy can achieve. Obi-Wan always kept Anakin to the rules of the Order and constrained him (though rightly so in the name of patience and humility), yet Obi-Wan never lavished his love on him like Qui-Gon did. Anakin was all too eager to accept Palpatine as father, because Palpatine delighted in Anakin. Obi-Wan was stuck with him out of duty to Qui-Gon, but wasn't the kind of Jedi Anakin wanted. When boys don't have a father, they can never become men. They remain boys with a great wound that can't be healed without a father's love.

These prequels made me like Qui-Gon way more than Obi-Wan. In the OT, Obi-Wan actually felt more like a father figure to Luke and Yoda more like a mentor.