Hollywood sagas of heroism have plot holes the size of planets. Thank Gawd! How else would we find that extra force to make parody of them. As for Star Wars I can't stop wondering why, for ten years, no-one on the Jedi Council thought of taking the just a few days long trip back to Tatooine to BUY Anakin's mother Shmi Skywalker out of slavery. It wasn't as if Watto was loaded with moolah and would have been able to resist a generous offer (or the threat of a light saber colonoscopy). No, instead they left a kid they knew from day one was a few gyros short of a restored balance to his own Midiclorians, a fumbling mentor trained by the only Jedi in a thousand years to lose a man-to-man combat with a Sith, and what they regarded as a suitable upbringing just within spitting distance from the best and worst among the warmonging pros and cons in the Galaxy Senate! No wonder Anakin ended up as a Dark Side Gangbanger doing Death Star Drive-Bys.

© Peter "How to save a too short, silly little ditty with the intro" Andersson