And I include George Lucas in that question. Because if so, how did the following exchange get through, as seen in the promos for the next episode:
ANAKIN: I lost R2-D2.
OBI-WAN: Well, R2 units are a dime a dozen…
A little free advice to the writers over there: If you MUST use cliches, try to avoid cliches that don’t make sense in the universe your stories are set in, considering a dime is a unit of currency in the United States. In the Star Wars universe, the only denomination used is “credits.”
Pay attention, people. Don’t make me come over there.
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Maybe Obi-Wan’s existence was held together by the force by the time he met Luke for some reason. Maybe Christopher Eccleston’s Doctor decided to kick his ášš over what happened to him in Shallow Grave.
Bear in mind that a dime in the real world is NOT a unit of currency; dollars and cents are. A dime is just a physical representation of ten cents.
Actually, a dime is also a unit of currency. The Coinage Act of 1795 directed the U.S Federal Government to keep all accounts in dollars, dismes, cents and milles. This is the reason our dimes can say “1 dime” instead of “10 cents”.
“This is something I’ve given way too much thought to. Qui Gon’s body didn’t disappear because he wasn’t ready or accepting of his death/transformation into the Force. Yoda and Obi Wan were both ready and accepting, thus their transmutation into energy was much cleaner than Qui Gon, Vaderkin, or any of the other Jedi we see die.”
Sounds good to me.
Ain’t it sad the folks on a message board put more thought into the Prequels than George Lucas himself?
Ain’t it sad the folks on a message board put more thought into the Prequels than George Lucas himself?
Ain’t it sad the folks on a message board put more thought into the Prequels than George Lucas himself?
You coulda made gold George…
“Ain’t it sad the folks on a message board put more thought into the Prequels than George Lucas himself?”
There is a school of thought that Lucas didn’t put much thought into the prequels. But I’ve talked to fans that will tell you that a lot of thought we’re put into the movies, and it’s just my own ignorance or blindness to the hidden these that prevents me from seeing its genius.
To me it seems that Lucas relies on his loyal fans to fill in the blanks in his script on their own, as some of them do. But I’m not satisfied with filling in the blanks. I eel the need to change the story so it will seem right to me.
“Ain’t it sad the folks on a message board put more thought into the Prequels than George Lucas himself?”
There is a school of thought that Lucas didn’t put much thought into the prequels. But I’ve talked to fans that will tell you that a lot of thought we’re put into the movies, and it’s just my own ignorance or blindness to the hidden these that prevents me from seeing its genius.
To me it seems that Lucas relies on his loyal fans to fill in the blanks in his script on their own, as some of them do. But I’m not satisfied with filling in the blanks. I eel the need to change the story so it will seem right to me.
This doesn’t matter…:P
Anyway, it reminded me of this:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/7/23/
Getting back to the “dime a dozen” bit…
I can understand why everyone is upset, but it’s based on a misunderstanding. Obi-Wan is not saying “Well, R2 units are a dime a dozen.” He’s actually saying “Well, R2 units are a Dhyma Dozen.”
A Dhyma is a gem from the planet Dhymos, first discovered by Drahcir Nilknarf, an explorer with the Baobab Merchant Company. Dhyma gems were unique in that they glowed from the inside at different colors and brightness depending on who was holding them. They were incredibly rare and in great demand on Coruscant, especially among the elite who wanted to be able to show off how brightly their Dhyma shone. (shined?)
However, further mining of Dhymos resulted in more and more Dhyma mines, and soon they weren’t so rare after all. The market became flooded with the gems, supply outweighed demand, and before long Dhyma gems were no longer considered something exotic for the elite but something gaudy that you gave to your kids. Coruscanti merchants were now stuck with tons of the rocks. In an effort to recoup their losses they frequently sold the gems in groups of a dozen for dirt cheap. Hence, the term “Oh, those are a Dhyma Dozen” fell into to the vernacular to describe something easily replaceable.
Now of course I’ve just made all this up, and I understand the point of why people are upset about the American vernacular being used in Star Wars and the lack of attention it shows on the part of the production team. But my counter-point here is that mistakes can be explained away with little effort, and it only gets in the way of the storytelling if you let it.
Just adding my two cents… haha.
Randomly going through Wikipedia, I came across the page of words used in American English but rarely outside of the continent. Among them… “dime a dozen”. Not only is it not an expression in space, they don’t even use it on the other side of the pond.
I approve of being wary of slang. ::nod::
Just adding my two cents… haha.
Randomly going through Wikipedia, I came across the page of words used in American English but rarely outside of the continent. Among them… “dime a dozen”. Not only is it not an expression in space, they don’t even use it on the other side of the pond.
I approve of being wary of slang. ::nod::