Episode One: Going through the planet core would screw the core up, right?

[Chain Lightning]

I got the sense that when they said "through the planet core", they meant, taking a short cut through the water filled interior of the planet, not really literally the core of it. But I could be wrong.

The real mistake of the whole scene is this: Qui-gon tells Obi-Wan that they need Jar Jar because he's a native local and would useful because he would be able to give navigational tips on how to get through the core and end up near the capitol. However, once they're travelling, Jar Jar asks where they're going and Qui-gon says that the force will guide them. If they didn't need directions from Jar Jar to begin with, why bother taking him along for the reason he stated? And how do you use the force as a mapquest function?

One could say that Qui-gon didn't really intend to ask Jar Jar for directions and that he only told Obi-Wan what he did as a way to get him on his side as far as making Jar Jar come along. Cuz all he really wanted was to free Jar Jar. If that was the case, there should've been a scene that showed that. A quick scene where Obi-wan says, "I thought you were brought him along to help us navigate?" Then Qui-gon would say something like, "I just didn't want to leave him imprisoned is all." But if that were the case, then that means Qui-gon isn't afraid of telling his own padawan little white lies. Anyways, silly Lucas writing.

 

[Umbran]

And how do you use the force as a mapquest function?

How do you use it to lift rocks in the air while standing on your head? Or throw lightning bolts? Or make you a better pilot? Midichlorians be damned, it is magic.

 

[VirgilCaine]

Any one whom rembers the 2 Ewok TV movies should rember that they visit the mountains and desert reagion of Endor

This literally pains me to say this but...

I... saw... those...movies...

...I guess I blocked them out when I said that.

 

[Rel]

This literally pains me to say this but...

I... saw... those...movies...

...I guess I blocked them out when I said that.

Bah! You don't know true pain until you've seen the Christmas Special.

 

[BOZ]

The real mistake of the whole scene is this: Qui-gon tells Obi-Wan that they need Jar Jar because he's a native local and would useful because he would be able to give navigational tips on how to get through the core and end up near the capitol.

actually, the real mistake was bringing him along at all.

 

[BOZ]

Bah! You don't know true pain until you've seen the Christmas Special.

i haven't seen it myself, but i have heard some terrible, terrible things...

given that, i would probably watch episode one all day long than watch that thing a single time.

 

[Desdichado]

My brother and I were talking about the flaws of the new SW movies last night when it occurred to us that going through the core of Naboo might have upset it a tiny, wee bit.

Anyone have any thoughts on this?

Other than the fact that a liquid water core is pretty silly, no. If you can accept a liquid water core, then going through it wouldn't upset it at all.

 

[qstor]

Bah! You don't know true pain until you've seen the Christmas Special.

Yes Bea Arthur's character should be recast in the new TV series

Mike

 

[wingsandsword]

And how do you use the force as a mapquest function?

Luke did it in ESB, note that he didn't calculate a hyperspace route to Dagobah, he just jumped there, apparently on instinct. I think Qui-Gon realized that Jar Jar wasn't exactly going to be as helpful as he first thought, and he was brought along to get him out of the death sentence he was under back in his homeland if he stayed.

But back to the topic at hand, I also presumed that the Gungans weren't being literal and that the "planet core" was a network of deep caves linking the gungan communities with the human communities.

Just the distance required to travel through the core with anything in the water would have taken too long to be plausible, and even if planetary physics didn't scream "NO", then the pressure of a thousands-of-miles-deep ocean would crush virtually anything. Realize how deep the pressure is in the ocean after just a few miles, then think of something 1000 times deeper.

 

[Michael Morris]

Luke did it in ESB, note that he didn't calculate a hyperspace route to Dagobah, he just jumped there, apparently on instinct.

No, R2 did the jump to Dagobah after being told to. It's one the main reasons the X-wing has a spot for an Astromech droid - to store hyperspace coordinate data.