Biggest Star Wars Facepalm

[TheLobes]

Noticed a 'coolest star wars moment' thread, and I thought it would be fun to go in the other direction. What part of Star Wars gave you the biggest 'Oh, Lucas....' facepalm?

Mine is when Yoda confronts Palpatine and says: 'Not if anything to do with it I have.'

Always makes me facepalm.

 

[Guartho]

Any time Darth Vader uses "no" as a complete sentence.

 

[Admiral_Young]

"Yippee!!!!" I'd take a thousand inappropriately placed "Nooooooooooo's!!!" over that one stupid line. I don't even blame Jake for his execution of the dialogue, I blame Lucas for writing it in the first place.

 

[TremblingBluStar]

I'll stick with the originals, since I don't want to turn this into another OT vs. PT thread. Besides, it's too hard to choose when talking about the PT!

I'd say Obi Wan's "from a certain point of view" speech in RoTJ. Whhaaaa? Saying Vader betrayed and murdered Anakin is correct from a certain view is like saying Anakin isn't in control of or responsible for his actions. This doesn't make any sense, and certainly doesn't fit with what we saw in the PT.

 

[Admiral_Young]

I think Obi-Wan said that as a symbolic alternative to not telling Luke outright that Vader was Anakin and his father. He was basically saying the dark side betrayed Anakin Skywalker who was seduced by it and murdered his personality and buried it under the persona of Darth Vader. That is basically what converted Jedi into Sith do. They bury their original personality as it becomes corrupted by the dark side. It's perhaps not a satisfying reason for why Obi-Wan lied to Luke but it's one that I've always used to explain why he did so.

 

[TremblingBluStar]

I think Obi-Wan said that as a symbolic alternative to not telling Luke outright that Vader was Anakin and his father.

I'm okay with Obi-Wan not having told Luke at first - but he should have fessed up to it and said "I didn't want you to have to face the truth" instead of squirming his way out by saying "what I said was true if you look at it my way".

 

[captcalhoun]

one from the current Clone Wars cartoon: the blue leaf virus stories. bad scientist throws away a vial of the virus and Anakin dives after it instead of...

...using the fucking Force...

to pull it toward him with no effort.

 

[The Mirrorball Man]

one from the current Clone Wars cartoon: the blue leaf virus stories. bad scientist throws away a vial of the virus and Anakin dives after it instead of...

...using the fucking Force...

to pull it toward him with no effort.

Sounds like they went for the most exciting scene. I don't see what's so embarrassing about that.

For me, the moment most worthy of a facepalm is the scene where C3PO tells the Ewoks what happened in the last two movies. With sound effects.

 

[Herkimer Jitty]

It's tough, but I'm gonna go with the romance scenes from Attack of The Clones.

 

[SeerSGB]

one from the current Clone Wars cartoon: the blue leaf virus stories. bad scientist throws away a vial of the virus and Anakin dives after it instead of...

...using the fucking Force...

to pull it toward him with no effort.

Sounds like they went for the most exciting scene. I don't see what's so embarrassing about that.

For me, the moment most worthy of a facepalm is the scene where C3PO tells the Ewoks what happened in the last two movies. With sound effects.

I always crack up watching that scene-- and I love RotJ. I just don't think that was necessarily what they were shooting for with it.

It's tough, but I'm gonna go with the romance scenes from Attack of The Clones.

The blue-ball scenes? You know the scenes that were suppose to come off as romantic, but come off as Anakin desperate for a handy for his GF?

 

[Silvercrest]

one from the current Clone Wars cartoon: the blue leaf virus stories. bad scientist throws away a vial of the virus and Anakin dives after it instead of...

...using the fucking Force...

to pull it toward him with no effort.

Sounds like they went for the most exciting scene. I don't see what's so embarrassing about that.

For me, the moment most worthy of a facepalm is the scene where C3PO tells the Ewoks what happened in the last two movies. With sound effects.

I always thought the sound effects were great; they were a reasonable thing for a translator droid to be able to do. But I always facepalm over C3PO refusing to help the prisoners. "It's against my programming", indeed.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

It's tough, but I'm gonna go with the romance scenes from Attack of The Clones.

Sand.

 

[Broccoli]

The sand scene wasn't that bad.

Hell, it looks like a masterpiece when you watch the "No, I love you more" scene from RotS.

 

[RoJoHen]

It's tough, but I'm gonna go with the romance scenes from Attack of The Clones.

Sand.

I'd rather him talk about sand that ride around on that weird potato-looking animal in the field.

 

[doubleohfive]

How does Grand Moff Tarkin know about Obi-Wan Kenobi?

Why does a bounty hunter (Jango Fett) hire another bounty hunter (Zam) to kill Padme using a poison dart manufactured on a planet (Kamino) where Jango is being cloned in secret?

Also:

George Lucas "wrote:"

STAR WARS

EPISODE III

REVENGE OF THE SITH

WAR! THERE ARE HEROES ON EACH SIDE. EVIL IS EVERYWHERE.​

 

[Gaith]

Leia calling Chewie a "walking carpet". Horribly insensitive at the very best for an often-enslaved race.

Mine is when Yoda confronts Palpatine and says: 'Not if anything to do with it I have.'

Oh, lord, really? I'd successfully forgotten...

 

[RoJoHen]

Why does a bounty hunter (Jango Fett) hire another bounty hunter (Zam) to kill Padme using a poison dart manufactured on a planet (Kamino) where Jango is being cloned in secret?

Jango is clearly running a bounty hunter business. Yes, he's a bounty hunter himself, but these days he sticks to the administrative side of things.

 

[OsmiumJohnnycake]

The floating interrogation droid/beach ball from ep IV always bugged me. I think it all boils down to the syringe it's holding. I'm sure there's some EU something-or-other that goes more in detail on it, but just from what's on screen, it's ridiculous that a floating sphere would be more efficient to inject a person with something than, say, a person would. Always seems so stupid and takes away from a scene that is presumably supposed to make one worried for Leia.

 

[Brian]

Poop jokes.

 

[milo bloom]

For me, the moment most worthy of a facepalm is the scene where C3PO tells the Ewoks what happened in the last two movies. With sound effects.

I love that scene. Reinforces the idea the characters are sorta self-aware, in that they know they've been dealing with some crazy stuff in the past few years. The sound FX especially are great. And as someone else said, it's great to finally see him doing something protocol droid-ish.


I always hated in ROTJ when whoever was directing (Lucas or Marquand) had Billy Dee Williams pull down his face mask a little to let the audience know Lando was already on the inside. Would have been a much better dramatic scene to have him be revealed during the skiff scene.