Talk:Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace

Wikipedia
Transferring Wikipedia article here. KFan II 00:59, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)KFan II What's going on here? Is someone trying to copy whats at Wikipedia and paste it over this? -- Riffsyphon1024 04:38, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * What exactly are you talking about doing? Moving the entire WP article, or merging? I think its just fine for us to have our own article, and our article has undergone quite a bit of wookification, which I believe you just completely undid. You're making me wish I had a revert button. -- Aidje 01:50, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

The DVD Covers
On the cover of the Star Wars DVDs you have the main charaters and you have the battle of the movie on the cover under the charaters. ANH has X-Wings on the cover, TESB has AT-ATs on the cover, AOTC has Clone Trooper and Homing Spider Droids on the cover, but for TPM, there Pod Racers on the cover. What does the Pod Race have to do with the Battle of Naboo? Shouldn't there be Naboo Fighters on the Episode I DVD Cover? Double D 21:12, 22 Sep 2005 (UTC)

Xizor?
I just read that Prince Xizor was in the movie. What scene is he in? Prince Xizor 20:34, 27 Sep 2005 (UTC)


 * Technically, no, he's not. However, the EP I podrace crowd on Tatooine included many action figures, including multiple Xizor action figures, so I guess you could say there were Falleen watching the race, but not Xizor, unless he cloned himself or used Force doppleganger.JustinGann 23:03, 9 Dec 2005 (UTC)

Should the part where it says that Aurra Sing is reminiscent of Xizor be in here. I dont see how someone can think Sing is Xizor OOM-30 18:44, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Here we Have it, folks?
Why are the first two sentences in there?

Paragraph question
"Obi-Wan killed Darth Maul by jumping up to high ground, turning around and slicing him in half with Qui-Gon's lightsaber. Somehow, Anakin knew about this and tried almost the exact same tactic to kill Obi-Wan at the end of their duel in Episode III. However, Obi-Wan anticipates this move and counters it." I want to question this. First, HOW did Obi have high ground over Maul, when they were both standind on the same flat surface. Second, what canon proof is there than in ROTS Anakin was trying to mimic this incident? I mean he could'nt reach OB1 from the lava collector, he had to jump to shore or not attack at all.JustinGann 23:03, 9 Dec 2005 (UTC)

Not only that, but Anakin didn't even had to jump over Obi-Wan to continue the fight, he could have just jumped to the large part of the shore in front of Obi-Wan, but provably Obi-Wan played a mind game on Anakin, he knew that by telling him not to try it Anakin was going to, on the other hand he does seems like he didn't want to do that because he still cares about Anakin. Now to answer your question, when Obi-Wan's hanging from a pole he isn't on high ground, Darth Maul is. 12:02, 12 Dec 2005

Obi-Wan didn't literally have high ground in TPM, he was just leaping out of the pit. Anakin may have heard about Obi-Wan's move after the fact, as Obi-Wan told him for the hundredth time, "Have I ever told you about the time when I killed Darth Maul? Well, Sith Lords in those days were way more powerful than the ones you youngsters have today!" Furthermore, Anakin may not even have known about Obi-Wan using this move, and Obi-Wan simply knew how to counter it. -Milo fett 14:44, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Redlinks Removed
I removed all the pointless redlinks that led to things like "Bill Clinton", "Reganomics", and other stupid articles that aren't even in the wiki. Kalas Grengar 22:57, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

New Characters
This may sound dumb, but should Darth Sidious be listed under New Characters? I know that Sidious and Palpatine are one and the same, but to most casual viewers, they don't realize that they are the same person. Just a thought. JuniorLax16
 * All the info about Sidious is in Palpatine's section but it is very unlikely that a person would watch the first and or second film without the third, so it probably doesn't matter. Bioevil087  ( Mara’s Ex )[[Image:Jedi_Order.jpg|20px]] 09:07, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

Greeedo vs. Wald
On this page, and several Phantom Menace sources, they call the young Rodian "Greedo the Elder", but in th e novelization, he is called "Wald". Same person with erroneous name, or different? 209.104.139.221
 * Wald and Greedo the Elder are two different characters. Greedo is only seen in a cut-scene. (He's not Greedo the Younger from ANH, but his father.) VT-16 15:27, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Hok?
Where was Hok mentioned in the film? VT-16 15:27, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Fodesinbeed mentions it while introducing Mawhonic - Kwenn 22:01, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Cleanup
The dramatis personnae section needs to be cleaned up. It's largely in alphabetical order (good) but for some characters, the first name is used instead of the last name (bad). Also needs to be checked for accuracy. I started cleaning up a couple of days ago - Kwenn 22:01, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

They were going the wrong way
I assume the poster is canon as it is part of Star Wars insider but if it is it seems to contradict that after escaping from Naboo they were first heading to Coruscant landed in the closest planet which was Tatoonie. But if you look at Tattonie in relation to Naboo and Courascant it seems like they were travelling AWAY from Courascant...

Let me know what you think-jackchen123
 * When they left Naboo, their destination was, true, Coruscant. But when their hyperdrive was leaking, so they stopped on Tatooine, because it was close by, to fix the ship, after which they went to Coruscant. Snoop 11:42, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

But naboo is closer to Courascant than Tatoonie. If tatoonie was indeed the closest plante they must have beedn heading away from the core system jackchen123
 * Maybe they were hyper jumping to the right to then follow the Corellian route. That would put Tatooine as one of the closest planets.  And they were trying to keep a low profile. -Finlayson 01:33, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
 * That makes sense; they couldn't have gone straight to Coruscant because the Deep Core's in the way. The Corellian route's the most sensible route, and of course, it heads right past Tatooine - \\Captain Kwenn// &mdash; Ahoy! 08:39, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Stretch Droid
What are the Stretch droids? I got the info from (link removed by domain owner) but does anyone know what they do? Gonk123 00:47, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

pod race commentator
who was teh podrace commentator? Ugluk 02:46, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Fodesinbeed is the person (are the people?) you're looking for.&mdash;Silly Dan (talk) 02:49, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
 * thanks. Ugluk 14:16, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

New entries or all entries?
Ok, what are we going to have on the "vehicles/locations/characters" etc lists? All things that appear in each movie or new things only? VT-16 11:40, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Those subsections aren't in a New Continuity section any more. I think it should be all. If not, change the labels to new locations, etc. to clarify. -Finlayson 13:41, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Opening Crawl

 * Am I mistaken, or dows the Phantom Menace crawl not have any words in all-caps? If it doesn't, it should most certainly be noted. I would put that in the Triva section, but I'm not completely sure, and I'm not going to go watch the beginning just to find out; if you want to that's your business. I couldn't find any screenshots of the whole crawl, which is why I'm not sure. Anyway, If anyone does know for certain either way, then I'd like to know. 141.154.242.143 00:38, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

All movies have 2 sentences in the first paragraph except RotJ has 1 sentence and RotS has 4 (if War! is counted). All movies have 1 sentence in paragraphs 2 and 3. I've noted this in talk for all movies. -- anon, I'll register if I post again. 12:20 EST, December 28, 2006

George Lucas in the movie
On wikipedia under George Lucas it says he makes a guest appearance in it near the end? Where is he?Lord Titze the Dark Wanderer 16:37, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
 * He's not. RotS was the first and only time Lucas appeared in the saga, as confirmed by the Ep3 coverage on the official site - \\Captain Kwenn// &mdash; Ahoy! 16:38, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Question about one of the trivia notes
The second trivia piece is:

One of the more popular rumors was that Natalie Portman sprained her ankle while filming and her limp was corrected digitally in post-production.

Isn't this at least partially true, not a rumor? I thought that it was mentioned on the Episode I DVD commentary, when Padme is leaving the ship with Panaka to join Qui-Gon, Jar Jar, and R2 who were heading into Mos Espa. I remember something was said about her spraining her ankle, and that you could see her limping in that scene. Whether or not this bothered her through the other scenes, or whether it was ever digitally corrected, I don't know, though. - Indy Gold 23:21, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Pogs
Two pictures at the bottom of the Trivia section refer to the set of Episode I "pogs." But were these actually Pogs? Or were they simply milk caps? I really don't know, but if they weren't actually Pogs, that should be changed. Or maybe the pictures removed altogether since there's not all that much reason to even have them on this page. Kaje 01:29, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Improvement drive
Okay, people, our goal is to make this FA worthy by week's end. Improve it in whatever way you can, but I think one of the main things we need to do is source the trivia section. Get on that, and feel free to post any other "to do" suggestions here. -- Ozzel 06:27, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

What happend to the all the images?!--Windu223 00:06, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Should I be working on the synopsis? Because I saw the film 14 times. May the force be with you!--Windu223 22:06, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Do whatever you can to help. -Fnlayson 03:58, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
 * I think the synopsis section desperately needs subheadings, perhaps one for each reel. Also, I tagged the Reaction section as POV; I'm quite certain some folks gave TPM unguarded praise (Mick Martin and Marsha Porter of the Video Movie Guide, for example), and to say that all fans either hated it or gave "guarded praise" strikes me as inaccurate. Really, the whole section seems to emphasize the negative, and while I'm not exactly TPM's biggest fan, I think we need at least a paragraph there about what was praised.  Gonk  ( Gonk! ) 12:38, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Hi, I went ahead and added some positive reviews and some praises to the "Reaction" section to balance it out- LordNyax113, 7:17, July 31, 2007.

Nazzar?
In the appearances section it lists a possible appearance of the Nazzar species. Where does this come from? Can anyone provide an image of their possible appearance?