Matt Blum is my hero…Okay, maybe not… \u00c2\u00a0But he’s assembled a great list of low IQ things that the Star Wars Main Characters have done…. \u00c2\u00a0Take a look…<\/p>\n
Have you ever watched a movie where a character figures out the answer to a complicated puzzle before you do, or makes some logical connection that you didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see until it was pointed out? I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll bet it made you a little impressed by the character\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mental abilities. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Wow,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d you may have thought, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153that character sure is smart.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
Now, have you ever noticed that you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get that feeling at all while watching the Star Wars movies? Seriously, the main characters are supposed to be the elite \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the cr\u00c3\u00a8me de la cr\u00c3\u00a8me of the galaxy far, far away \u00e2\u20ac\u201d but without exception they make some of the most boneheaded decisions you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re ever likely to see.<\/p>\n
Here, then, is the evidence I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve gathered to prove this point. I will make a few references to the prequel trilogy, but am content that characters featured only in those movies can be proved idiots by simply referring to their dialogue. And the Clone Wars movie and series introduce far too many characters to deal with in a blog article. So I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be concerning myself primarily with the original trilogy.<\/p>\n
Emperor Palpatine: You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re the leader of a powerful Galactic Empire, and you spent an enormous amount of time and resources building a giant planet-killing space station. Then the pesky rebels went and blew it all to bits, wasting all that investment and presumably killing many thousands of your troops. So what do you do as a followup? Why, build another one, of course! Now, perhaps that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just hubris, not stupidity, but don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t you think you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d get the best engineering minds in your Empire to look over the plans to make sure they didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have a giant gaping flaw in them that could be exploited the same way the first one did? And don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t you think it might make just a little more sense to have the (\u00e2\u20ac\u0153fully armed and operational\u00e2\u20ac\u009d) Death Star generate its own protective shield, rather than situating the source on a nearby moon full of walking teddy bears? And of course, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no reason to pay attention to the mental state of your right-hand guy Darth Vader, even though you know his mind is easily manipulated because that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s how he became your right-hand man in the first place.<\/p>\n
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