Kurgan wrote:Some things have come up, like the series (beginning with the movie pilot) establishes that Jabba and the rest of the Hutts had first hand knowledge of the Jedi Knights, including Anakin Skywalker.
What exactly does that contradict? Is their anything to suggest that Jabba and his fellow Hutts
didn't have such knowledge?
We see the apparent lack of capital ship shield interaction with physical impacts on ships...
Their's some precident for it, though I'm not sure if there's anything outside of game mechanics (missiles in
Empire at War come to mind). Still, this idea didn't originate with The Clone Wars.
The very different "ion cannon" weapon, and so forth.
What was different about the ion cannons?
Apparently Yoda thinks Clones can have some knowledge of the Force and gives them a few basic lessons/philosophy.
What's wrong with this?
The Clones are living and sentient beings. Without having seen the episode in question, I can't see why they couldn't at least comprehend the concept of the Force, and study Jedi philosophy. It makes sense to me.
Some "armored" native predators are naturally able to shrug off clone blaster fire (you know, the same blasters that can penetrate the carapaces of super battle droids).
That was indeed odd. I could make up some bullshit excuse, but nothing that sounds really plausible right now.
Jedi suddenly stop wearing their headsets while in their Jedi fighters. Clones now wear sealed helmets while piloting (most of the time, anyway).
The former is odd. The latter sounds like an improvement, so I'm not complaining. This isn't Star Trek, where their's apparently a law against wearing sealed helmets in space combat. Glad to know they're doing the sensible thing.
Clones can be bribed, even brainwashed by the enemy.
The brainwashing makes more sense than the bribery. Remember Obi-wan in Episode 4 using the Mind Trick on a Stormtrooper, then telling Luke that "the Force can have a strong influence on the weak minded?"
However, clones disobeying or reinterpreting orders is not unprecidented in the EU (Dark Lord). Its just rather rare.
Dooku's ship (one of those Geonosian "fighters") is explicitly called a "solar sail."
Not sure if that
contradicts anything, though the idea of a functioning solar sail that size, or one that accelerates a ship at any sudden speed, is absurd. For now, I'm inclined to treat it as just an anachronistic name that doesn't describe how the device actually works, in much the way that turbolasers are not generally held to be lasers.
We see that pirates with no force abilities or mystical gimmicks or special technology (other than those "energy handcuffs" that everyone seems to have) can outsmart and overpower two seasoned Jedi Knights AND a Sith Lord.
So? Jango and the Geonosians took Anakin prisoner in Episode 3 once his light saber was gone. Jedi have often gone down to superior numbers and/or surprise. As I commented before, I'm inclined to approve of this one, since it gives the Jedi a bit of a de-wanking. And I don't see how it contradicts anything, in the films anyways.
Poison gas didn't seem to be a problem in Episode I for Jedi holding their breath, but now suddenly it is (did they forget about holding their breath?).
That does seem like a contradiction, unless perhaps their was something special about this particular gas.
Destroyer droids can now be defeated by Jedi, but as the CW take place before Episode III, I guess they forgot how again and just retreat from them?
Are you reffering to the scene where Kenobi shoves some with the Force aboard the Malevolance? I'm trying to recall the situation their, and weather he had the advantage of surprise.
We rarely if ever see Jedi using Tk and blocking blaster bolts at the same time. Perhaps because that requires more concentration. So, perhaps Jedi were being overwelmed in other circumstances because the Destroyers got the jump on them? In other words, was their anything special about that scene that would explain Kenobi being able to use Tk where others, and he himself, had been unable to before?
We see that packing crates often DO provide adequate cover in a blaster fight.
I just assume that those particular crates were made of, and/or contained something made of, a highly durable material. Its not like Star Wars technology can't make things blaster-resistant. What if those crates were shipping something fragile that required extra protection? I believe this came up earlier in the thread.
Standard Battle Droids have full personalities and are as neurotic and "sentient" as C3PO, even possessing emotions like cowardice and despair. Yes, they were going this direction in Episode III, but now it's quite explicit.
Not a contradiction or change really, though retarded and annoying.
Collapsing rock walls are sufficient to destroy super battle droids.
How sizable/heavy were the walls in question?
We get some sense of the power yield of a thermal detonator (unseen effect on a handful of troops in a room, with only the door blown down, and a trooper crawling out, still alive but wounded, armor intact).
Aren't their thermal detonators of varying degrees of power?
I haven't covered every single example you gave, but most of these seem to be either not contradictions or changes at all, borderline cases, or fairly easily rationalized. Some may even improve the Star Wars universe, such as having pilots wearing sealed helmets.
How is Ventress a plot device?