Okay here's one. In "Raiders of the Lost Ark," why did the Nazis agree to Belloq's attempted-Jewish ceremony? The script tries to address this with a throwaway line where one of them expresses discomfort, but none of them ever really questions it.

Now, the Nazis were hypocrites when it came to just about everything, I get that, but this goes way beyond simply taking Jewish money, or sleeping with a Jewish woman; this is deep, fundamental belief stuff we're talking about here.

So a) the Nazis honestly believed that the Jewish trappings were necessary to diffuse God's wrath at the idea of someone opening the Ark, in which case they would have to buy into the whole 'Jews as God's chosen people' thing, b) they believed it was necessary for their protection to diffuse God's wrath at people like *them* opening the Ark, but then that would go against the whole superior race/destined to own the world philosophy, or c) they allowed it just to appease Belloq, which would imply that he was so fundamentally important to the whole operation that they couldn't risk pissing him off.

*shrug* Nazis are weird.

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lordsathien wrote: Doddsino wrote: My friend was incredibly bummed when Maul didn't come back as some sort of cyborg. Actually, he did come back as a cyborg in one of the EU novels. If memory serves me correctly, I think he battled with Obi Wan on Tatooine. The same novels that say that Boba Fett survived the sarlacc and actually has morals despite being a bounty hunter.

Don't forget the part where he had a nice, long conversation with Sarlacc (through one of Sarlacc's old, digested victims no less), then escapes by tossing grenades and flying out with his jetpack.

While that is admittedly awesome...no. Just no.