Larry Young
Master Member
I think we will go around and around in circles on this one.
No we won't, because I think you're probably right, that it's a remnant of a missing scene. I just think it's interesting that in a lot of the criticisms I've been reading here and elsewhere, this line reading keeps coming up, and I just don't see the level of importance placed on it, since it's delivered as an aside on the way out of a scene. I mean, it's almost a "I used to bull's-eye womp rats in my T-16 back home; they're not much bigger than two meters" level of dialogue. We don't need to see womp rats, and we don't need to see Flynn's cycle actually be the fastest thing on the Grid.
Which is probably why they cut it, if such a trim was made.
Since this is not a weekly edition of a paper or comic that can wrap up off-handed comments from the main characters, almost EVERY line is crucial to the plot.
This, however, sure is an interesting view of cinema. Don't tell QT.