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The occasional horrors of youngling training

posted 8 years ago by tenantennae
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Letting kids have lightsabers? You know damn well that every so often a limb or head was lost. Or some kid trips and cuts the kid next to him in half. Crap like that.

[–] Kojiro_Vance 8 years ago

Well, they had to have such a stupid scene. It was George Lucas' way of connecting to old and new Trilogy because he fcked up - again.

Hey George, didn't Yoda train Obi Wan? Because it seems you forgot that when you were writing The Phantom Menace.

George: Oh never mind that, I'll make Yoda a schoolteacher in the next movie.

I'm just on my way up to Clavius.

[–] tenantennae 8 years ago

Haha, "the jedi master who instructed me" did sound much weightier than "the jedi master who instructed me...and all the other children."

Luke: Children? Ben??? BEN!

[–] Kojiro_Vance 8 years ago

lol

There you will find Yoda, the Jedi Master who was my school teacher. Makes it sound like Yoda is a gym teacher, with a small whistle around his neck.

George, why didn't you watch your own movies, before you started "writing" (quotation marks) the prequel trilogy?

I'm just on my way up to Clavius.

[–] Kojiro_Vance 8 years ago

Haha, "the jedi master who instructed me" did sound much weightier than "the jedi master who instructed me...and all the other children."

Luke: Children? Ben??? BEN!

Obi Wan: well, actually we called them 'younglings'.

Luke: wait, what?

I'm just on my way up to Clavius.

[–] tenantennae 8 years ago

Obi Wan: well, actually we called them 'younglings'.

lol, disappearing, then reappearing just to tell Luke that

[–] Volley2020 8 years ago

In reality those Jedi-attuned 'younglings' (Star Wars word for Children) would have indeed chopped each other in half, mostly by accident.

Heck, give an adult a real life lightsaber today and the weapon will accidentally fall through the floor of your house, or swipe off your toes, feet, legs, or arms in trying to grab it again. A lightsaber is such an unrealistic weapon, we can only hope something like that never becomes a reality in our... reality.

[–] otter 8 years ago

Logically, you give little kids practice sabers that burn a little rather than amputate, as well as a teacher with enough Force power to stop them from doing any real damage with things that burn.

Nah, any real damage done to those kids would come from telling them to forget their parents exist, and to not make any friends because that would be valuing one person above all others. Telling that to small children is just warped.

“Seventy-seven courses and a regicide, never a wedding like it!

[–] Whiskyfeet 8 years ago

They should have made them look like practice sabers like in SWToR

[–] InternationaleClique 8 years ago

For all we know that's what they are.