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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 205360" data-attributes="member: 99">Well, frankly, I'm willing to buy it rather easier than I could buy what lousy shots the Stormtroopers were in the OT.  And I buy it for the same reason:  If the bad guys were as competent as they perhaps could have been, there would be no movie.I mean sure, it has an element of "You are about to die Mr. Bond, so I shall reveal my whole plan to you instead of simply shoot you in the head three times".  But so do a lot of movies that I like.  I'm willing to overlook it for the story.And as far as their methods go, they are having to come up with these assassination plots in a hurry.  Maybe they couldn't use more explosives at the platform because obtaining more on short notice would have attracted attention.  Maybe they couldn't use more explosives because a larger quantity would have set off some kind of detectors.  I dunno.With regards to the traceability issue, I totally agree that Zam Wessel should not have had the droid return to her.  But perhaps she had less experience with Jedi and figured that nobody was crazy enough to jump out a 300 story building and ride the droid back.  Once the droid was close enough to for her to see Obi-Wan aboard, she figured that she'd been spotted and had to deal with it.The dart that Fett used to kill her was perhaps unwise but if Obi-Wan hadn't known the greasy spoon cook, they might never have traced the thing.  Especially since the Jedi archives had been tampered with.Since I'm pretty sure that I've gone well beyond over analyzing this thing, I'll shut up now.</blockquote>

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