Why didn't RLM understand Qui-Gon?

Why didn't RLM understand Qui-Gon?

What's there to understand?

Because Qui-Gon's character was conveyed visually. Normal moviegoers rely entirely on exposition through dialogue.

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>describe a character without mentioning his profession, name, age, gender, height, weight, face, clothes, actions he did in the movie, motivations etc.
reddit letter media are extremely retarded

There really wasn't anything to understand. Liam Neeson had his "mentorish" charisma, but other than that the character wasn't even written or explored properly.

Mike wanted an Obi-Wan ripoff because he wasn't joking when he said
>I don't like things that are different
in the Generations review.
See: why he loved TFA.

He's the mentor Jedi, you don't have to know his CV to understand his character, unless you're a RLM retard

Qui-Gon was one of the best prequel characters t b h.

But that makes sense. They're asking you to describe his personality. Now what the fuck is his personality?

You fucking dipshit.

>Inb4 Get out Mike

Stoic, rebellious guy

that isn't saying a lot

A lone wolf space hippy.

Quin Gon is literally best fictional character ever if you just pretend he is a hobo who found jedirobes, lightsaber and walks half drunk.

Why does anyone even give half a shit what youtube reviewers think about anything?

So, just like Ben?

That's just a cop out. What is there to understand about Qui-Gon Gin?

>his CV
What are you talking about? And for that matter, what character? He didn't have any.

Instead of Rogue One they should have done a Ep. 1 prequel with Jedi Dooku and Qui Gon getting into hijinks.

>start prequel apologist thread
>RLM was wrong you guise the characters were really good!
>why were they good
>uhm.. you didn't understand!
Every time. Discuss the fucking movies or don't even bother.

Its gonna be OT and ST era movies for a while now, they are slowly using more and more prequel content, but they dont wanna rush it

Fuck off contrarian retard.
Yes, but Ben was developed over the course of 3 movies, in the context of the first movie he was just a space wizard hermit.

Qui-Gon Finn?

He's the kind of rogueish guy who thinks in a more unorthodox way than his peers. Also a kind guy who cares about others and wants to see a better tomorrow (see his treatment of Shmi and loving, clear attention he gives to Anakin, whom he has high hopes for).

That's his charachter. Everyone... that's Qui Gon Jinn. F.

You're stupid. There is no character here. He isnt even a moral archetype like Cap or Superman. No character, no motivation.

Summer already?

Uh huh. Costume design isn't character. And if it is, even that was pretty shitty.

Why didn't Qui Gon just go to another junk dealer and use the force mind trick on him to swap out credits for currency Watto would take

Why didn't Obi Wan just use Force Speed to save Qui Gon?

Stoic is code for no personality. And he didn't rebel against shit. You read that off the back of his action figure card.

pissin your pants yet?

But what motivates him?

Sounds like a contestant for the Miss America pageant.

wrong

was Phantom menace too complicated for you to understand? He rebelled against the Jedi council, he made them take Anakin in. They straight out tell you he would have been in the council if he was more of a conformist.

Qui-Gon was always in conflict with the jedi council because he did the right thing regardless of the councils stand on the matter. He knew that the Jedi were restricting themselves to actually do good. He still hasn't freed the slaves on Tatooine but only because he acknowledged that he couldn't do it on his own / with his Padawan. I guarantuee you that he would have been a better teacher to Anakin than Obi-Wan, maybe they would have even freed Anakins mom before the Muslims got her and he would certainly have sided with the Separatists and Count Dooku that stood against the restrictions that the Republic and Jedi imposed. It would have been another great plot that Lucas completely avoided aside from the conversation with Obi-Wan and Dooku in AOTC.

Boy, your post is full of headcanon/EU shit. You need to stop making these threads.

YOU FUCKIN' PARADE FLOAT

Republic Credits aren't worth anything on Tatooine, it would have been stealing or giving him toy money.

You are correct but the main problem is that this is more of an informed trait than shown. Most of the movie he was just the random hero leader guy and this is what RLM remembers when they did that skit.
Hell, even in the few EU shit we got with him he came off to me as Obi-Wan 2.0, not in any way rebellious.

They had similar complaints about Rogue One. It was a dogshit film, but their logic was "THERE'S NO CONTEXT WHY DO I NEED TO SEE RETURN OF THE JEDI" when they explain everything that's necessary to understand the depth of the threat in the film itself.

For some reason they really do need every little thing explained to them.

Except when it comes to TFA where they completely ignore the retardation that is the New Republic subplot.

I swear these niggers are either functionally retarded or bought out by Disney. I guess it's the former because that would explain why so many OT purist shitters like TFA, they just want their shitty fairy tale movie that explains nothing so of course they get so utterly triggered by a war movie with no shiny magic.

He's an autist like 99% of this board

I liked Qui-Gon as a kid because of Liam Neeson's natural charisma. It had nothing to do with how his character was written or what he did.

You have too much faith in 1% of this board

Trustworthy guy that bends the rules when needed. Calm, thinks over situations. Takes risks but trusts the force. Is it really this difficult?

Qui Gon and Obi Wan are the only good things about the prequels. Its just RLM hating on things that everyone likes as usual.....just like Sup Forums

>he did the right thing regardless of the councils stand on the matter. He knew that the Jedi were restricting themselves to actually do good

>leaves fucking Anakin's mother in slavery on tatooine so he doesn't break some bullshit Hutt law on a backwater world

Your point rings true

Sheev is great too

The Hutts are powerful enough that the republic turned a blind eye. What could one jedi and his padawan do?

>if the jedi are so good why didn't they just free all the slaves
>this retard logic

They were transporting the queen and were wanted by the trade federation, it would be stupid to make enemies of whatever ruling body was on tatooine

>>leaves fucking Anakin's mother in slavery on tatooine
Eh, her living conditions weren't horrible.

Mace Windu was alright

But Qui Gon ended up using the force to fix a bet anyways (with the dice roll). He also used it to steal a bongo from Boss Nass. Why would he be against using the force to swap credits for local currency

Mace Dindu had no business being on the counsel

Is "there's always a bigger fish" one of the most profound lines of movie history? I think it went right over most of the audiences' heads.

Shut up, motherfucker.

>local currency
They barter.

Yeah, I liked the part where he stared.

Then why didn't Qui Gon just use the force on someone else to get a part he didn't need but Watto would want and then barter for the part? He had no problem stealing a bongo

They're called mind tricks for a reason. They don't last.

Then why didn't Qui Gon just use the mind trick to get another ship

Fucking read the post nigger, at least the other guy was right with headcanon.

Though the way George introduced new details with The Clone Wars into canon it made me think about these previously inconsequential details and wonder how he maybe would have changed some other details if TCW were longer or how he would have changed the Prequels if he had gotten those ideas earlier.

For example the Confederacy just came off as some assholes that he pulled out of a hat but TCW showed in one episode that after getting concrete evidence that the Banking-Clan is owned by the CIS (even though Obi-Wan overheard the conversation where they pledged alliegance to Dooku but let's ignore that for now) and Sheev just used that as an excuse to nationalize the Banking-Clan, effectively stealing all the fucking money and he definitely did the same with the other corporations. That the war was a way to make people hate the corporations, banks and such so he could pretend to take it back for the people but in the end just used their stuff for himself or the military. This detail should have been this explicitly in ROTS because then it would also give the taxation shit of TPM a right to exist as now it was just removed and ignored and keeps being a loose end.

Also why did he even bother trying to do the mindtrick on Watto then

One reason could be Qui God didn't want to draw too much attention he even says in the movie.

At that point, Watto already knew he was a Jedi, and knew any part Qui-Gon would trade with him was gained unfairly. He would simply up the ante needed to trade the part.

Watto didn't want to sell it so he tried using th e mind trick to make him sell it.

>The will is everything
What did he mean by that?

Wow calm down. What the hell did he say to trigger you this bad

He's obviously a nigger and got mad at that user for calling Windu Mace Dindu

It was obviously a shitty joke because Jackson says motherfucker often in other movies.

>needing several seasons of an animated series to fix all the plot holes & illogics that happened because he was a lazy writer surrounded by yes men whit his own head too far up his ass to realize how terrible most of it was

Painful to listen to the commentaries/watch the docs about those films & see just how badly those involved are trying to NOT talk shit about George & what could've been

>And he didn't rebel against shit.

you dumb dumb

Of course it did, at the time.
"There's always a bigger fish" pretty much sums up the series of events throughout the three prequels.
It's only when you rewatch TPM do you understand the gravity of that line and the genius of Qui gon.

What I don't understand is why so many people seem to consider RLM as some sort of gospel.

He didn't quip enough.
I mean these are the people that think that Luke, Leia and Han are characters and not generic cardboards

It's a common phrase.