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The explanation for that scene is provided in one of Aaron Allston's X-wing books. It's delightful. One of the Wraith Squadron operators is a slicer, and he describes the reason he feels so guilty. Paraphrased: "I was at the Battle of Endor, and as we watched the Death Star blow up we knew that the Emperor had died. I sliced into the planetwide newsfeeds on Coruscant and looped the footage of the Death Star's destruction again and again. The people in Invisec (the sector of the planet where the unwanted and politically dangerous are kept) rose up in a riot of celebration, setting off fireworks, tearing down statues. And then the stormtroopers came."

That's the EU at its best: It takes one of the off-kilter scenes from the G-canon, one of the scenes that offends a rational person's sensibilities, and recontextualizes it in a way that makes sense. The celebrations on Coruscant were not planetwide; it was just a small group of ghettoized malcontents. And their impudence was not tolerated.
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So that was the bad side of town on Corsucant? I can only imagine what Palpatine turned the Jedi Temple into!
And what was with the celebration on Cloud City anyway? Last time we saw it, everyone was fleeing for their lives because of Lando's warning. Did Ice Cream Guy lead an assault between Empire and Jedi to retake it?
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Originally posted by: cap
I was just watching TPM, and when Anakin said he had a dream he would become a Jedi and come back to free the slaves, I got to wondering:

Whatever happens with slavery on Tattooine? Do the slaves ever get freed? If so, how, and when, and does Anakin have anything to do with it?

I'm guessing the EU has touched on this. Anybody know?


You know what? This has always bugged me. It was probably one of the most stirring lines delivered in TPM, so I just knew in 1999 that in one of the other PT movies, Anakin would go back to Tatooine and free the slaves in some sort of Kwisatz Hadderach Dune-y kind of way. But no. It never happened. And a great opportunity was wasted.
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Originally posted by: Sluggo
Yup, more inconsistant writing by Lucas. You'd think since he had all these things figured since 1974 or whatever, his final product wouldn't be riddled with so many plot holes.


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It was another line thrown in by Lucas with little to no thought. Although it was forgotten about in the next two films, it does have repercussions...

...Anakin is scared of Padme dying because he dreamt it, yet none of his other dreams have come true!

Padme should have just said "Don't worry Anakin, remember you dreamt about freeing the slaves? That never happened did it? You putz."
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That never happened did it? You putz.



Exactly, LOL!