General Star Wars Random Thoughts Thread — Page 307

Lord Haseo said:

Sougouk said:

WHAT?! Really? Some people are quite clueless. It was probably one of the people who was playing with their phone while at the movie theater.

Or someone who didn’t see the film at all. People not seeing the film and shitting on it by rehashing other people’s recycled arguments is getting to be a thing these days.

Rehashing arguments? Don’t be ridiculous.

Hey, just because someone’s a member of the Illuminati doesn’t mean they’d bother to hang out here. 😉

Idk why people are worried about Luke dying in future movies. If they kill Luke in TLJ (or later), they’ll surely Force Ghost him and he’ll still be there, just bluer and less opaque.

Sougouk said:

suspiciouscoffee said:

Idk why people are worried about Luke dying in future movies. If they kill Luke in TLJ (or later), they’ll surely Force Ghost him and he’ll still be there, just bluer and less opaque.

Luke as a Force Ghost would be cool, if it were to ever happen. As a Force Ghost, Luke would still be helping out with the knowledge he gained over the years. Though, he’d probably have Yoda on his back, because he’s training Luke, to perfect his Force Ghost.

Perfection.

Is that some fancy EU thing?

TV’s Frink said:

Ugh, it’s some EU thing crossed with a PT thing.

Oof… Could there be anything worse?

I don’t watch the PT, so it doesn’t factor into my SW canon, but I still wish that they had set the “extinction” of the Jedi much further in the past from ANH than they did. The only thing this affects in the films I like is that in R1 Jehah is a kinda “holy city” for the Jedis and force believers. That’s cool, but, as far as I remember, it seems to be a well known place and therefore the Jedi and the force are still fresh in peoples minds, or at least commonly known of.
So how is it that Luke has never heard of “the force”? I’ve always read Mark’s reaction to imply that Luke has never even heard the phrase used in the way Obi-Wan has used it.
I’d have liked to find out in the PT that Obi-Wan and Vader are much older than we’ve thought (Yoda seems to have used to force to prolong his life and maybe the Emperor too). I’d move Luke n’ Leia’s conception to after the Jedi murders.
I’d also have made Beru Luke’s mom’s sister. Her face and silence have always told me that she knows even more about the past than Owen. She’s also more understanding of Luke not being cut out to be a farmer, because she hasn’t always been either. It’s the only life Owen knows, so he’s extra defensive and “afraid”.

pre-coffee ramble is over

ray_afraid said:

So how is it that Luke has never heard of “the force”? I’ve always read Mark’s reaction to imply that Luke has never even heard the phrase used in the way Obi-Wan has used it.

Well, why should an outer rim farmer know what an Inner Rim belief system that has been banned for 20 years is?

I too tend to ignore the PT canon, but even those movies implied that most people in the Galaxy didn’t know too much about the Force, even when the Jedi were still around. Plus, there’s what, a few thousand of them at most? And they spent most of their time in the Inner Rim. And when they were on missions they weren’t exactly dealing with common folk.

I think it’s pretty safe to assume that after 20 years of propaganda the already legendary Jedi turned into myth quite easily. And Luke wasn’t exactly on the most well informed planet in the galaxy.

flametitan said:

ray_afraid said:

So how is it that Luke has never heard of “the force”? I’ve always read Mark’s reaction to imply that Luke has never even heard the phrase used in the way Obi-Wan has used it.

I’m putting money on Owen being that micromanaging of Luke’s life that Luke never got to learn what the force was if he had heard of it before.

Also this.