Then... we have [the Star Wars prequels'] determination to answer — generally to the detriment of the series — questions nobody was asking, while simultaneously contradicting what little solid data the originals presented about the past. Take the Emperor’s face, for example. I guarantee you nobody ever saw the Emperor march down that gangplank for the first time in Return of the Jedi and thought, “Huh. I wonder how he got to be so ugly?” We all just assumed he looked like that because he was so old and so evil that he was effectively his own Portrait of Dorian Gray and moved on. And you know what? That was good enough. More than that, it was better than any explanation for the old bastard’s appearance that might have been offered. And it was way better than being told, as we are in Revenge of the Sith, that he accidentally turned himself into rancid cottage cheese when a blast of his Force lightning bounced off of Mace Windu’s light saber and hit him in the face— not least because it didn’t prompt us to ask why Force lightning never turns anybody else into rancid cottage cheese.
Just a quick tip: Sometimes Potterless is Pottermore.
—A tweet
reaction to the infamous "wizards used to poo their pants" claim from the official Twitter account for Pottermore.
reaction to the infamous "wizards used to poo their pants" claim from the official Twitter account for Pottermore.