RiffTrax w/ Mike Nelson - Star Wars Ep 1 - Part 1

Mike Nelson and Kevin Murphy riff the Phantom Menace to pieces!

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[textthing]

They're supposed to be indentured slaves, yet they have a warm, spacious house. It just shows how utterly out of touch the creators of this thing are.

[hollyhuffstutler]

Yes fair point, what girl in her right mind focuses on the little blond kid when she's that close to Ewan Macgregor and Liam Neeson!? As if I wasn't already suspending major disbelief with this movie...

[penguinsarebeast33]

maybe they cant get droids for some reason so they have slaves instead.

[Charmolution]

@hollyhuffstutler

She's a shota fan.

[kurtjk01]

"He's a protocol droid to help mom." Yep, just what a slave needs: assistance with the ins and outs of minute-taking, polite forms of address and behavior, planning scientific experiments, or of course, formatting data for eletronic communication (because those slaves spend all their copious free time blogging).

[joesislackjoe]

xdxdxdxdxd

[GoblinXXX]

@Apollomasque C-3PO, human/cyborg relations and interior design specialist. His window treatments are FAB-u-LOUS!

[Apollomasque]

@GoblinXXX

Maybe he wanted someone around the house that was more effeminate than he was.

[textthing]

@AToxicOrange

That might make sense, but it doesn't really come across in the film. If more thought and effort were put into depicting these people's lives, the film might have been more interesting. But none of it is convincing, because it's mostly about trying to please fans. It's a pity, because when you consider the money that was spent on it, you'd think some creativity would result.

[AToxicOrange]

@textthing Granted, slaves don't have free time like that, but again, that's creative license. Slavery's never been depicted accurately. Also, what they ate was on the level of oatmeal, and cheap oatmeal at that. Then of course, there's the house. It wasn't provided. Shmi and the man she was with at one point build that house by hand. It's mentioned in one of the shooting scripts. The scene didn't make it into the film. Basically, everything they've got, they had to fight against Watto to get.

[textthing]

@AToxicOrange

- yet have accommodation thoughfully provided, an entire house for just two people to boot. Is it possible you don't see the contradictions?

[textthing]

@AToxicOrange

Thank you. I didn't mention droids. Once again, look at how it's depicted in the movie. Looks like a pretty fine house to me. They food, clothing and leisure time. Slaves, under any possible definition of the term, don't live like this. Your assumption seems to be that a supposedly more advanced society will need slaves, yet slave owners can afford to extend them all these luxuries. It's a poor planet, yet somehow people have enough to eat and -