Sevb32 said:
It's very vague, it could be any number of years, 20 prior or more. There was NO absolute time set by the dialogue. Anyone who says there is, is simply dreaming up what their own timeline based on vagueness.
That's why this thread starts with the word "implied".
Sevb32 said:
Where do you dream up 50 years? Guinness would have been like 11 years old. He turned 62 while filming ANH. Some people try to place him at much older. But that was his age.
50 years sounds a little too much for me too, but we aren't talking about Guinness' age but Obi-Wan's (if even that). Mark Hamill wasn't a teenager either nor Dave Prowse was a cyborg.