Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 2)

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Also, I haven't watched the Plinkett reviews but I have to imagine that rather than a "shallow critique of plot" that Mike goes to great lengths to point out that the events of The Phantom Menace are completely incoherent and hinge on a single set of events happening in a specific order and way. Something that afflicts countless movies but rarely gets condemnation from "serious" media critics or fans.

I have this instinctual dislike of that exact thing but I'm always second-guessing myself on whether it's really a problem, because after all, literally everything in our own lives is a result of the butterfly effect, if I hadn't eaten toast one morning maybe through a series of minor events I would've never found the bore and not be posting here

the main problem is when a character like palpatine is supposedly so brilliant and smart that they orchestrated things to happen a certain way which had millions of small points of failure where it could've gone wrong but it miraculously didn't, and the only way that can make sense is to argue that they had a lot of irons in the fire and this is just the one that worked out for them

You could also argue that he used the force to influence the situation to his advantage...

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