Star Wars: The Force Awakens

[zoraster]

it's easy to dispense with a throwaway couple of lines about midichlorians that isn't mention in the next two movies (right? I don't remember hearing it again). It's a lot harder to dismiss awful dialog, wooden acting, heartless too-clean cgi, an interminable pod race, pretty horribly transparent racism, soulless villains (general grievous? come on), etc. etc.

[zoraster]

To be perfectly honest I don't think the acting/dialogue in the originals was that good either. I like the midichlorian aspect because it explains why only some people can use the Force as well as give it a way children can inherit it from their parents. It's still magical in my opinion, and I've always felt having an explanation for how something magic works makes it better, not worse.

The Toshe Monologue was a classic.

Of course it wasn't great, but it wasn't as consistently cringe-worthy either.

Watch this: http://www.slate.com/articles/video/vid ... video.html

[zoraster]

i was just kidding around, not really a monologue: