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Owen and Beru - what to do with you? The ageing between the PT & OT...

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We look forward to this exciting fan edit project.

Team Olie

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It's called "Moisture Vaporators: Are they really bad for your skin?", and fills out the family life of the thirty-something couple as they raise young Luke. Starring Tommy Lee Jones as Owen and Dame Maggie Smith as Beru.

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Here's a screencap. Uncle Owen (Tommy Lee Jones) celebrates his 30th birthday in the Jungland Wastes...

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Nice.  But we really need to see some video clips before we can get too excited.

Team Olie

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That was twenty three years before ANH. But, yeah, what the hell!

I guess desert life must be hard.

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It was a planet with TWO suns.  I know Joel Edgerton was 30 at the the end of ROTS putting him around 50 in ANH. Yes, they aged pretty badly, but there are people who do that it real life too. And technically AOTC was 22 years before ANH. That's an AOTC pic, not ROTS pic.

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I want to watch a version of this fanedit starring Joel Hodgson.

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Wanted to post this during the outage:

We have 3 human characters who live through the period between 3 and 4: Obi-Wan, Beru, and Owen. They all live on Tatooine and they all age terribly. So the simple answer is that the twin suns make you look older than you are.

I was going to say that maybe people look older in the SW Universe, but TFA takes place an appropriate amount of time after RotJ for the actors to be as old as they are. But if any of them live on Tatooine in the meantime, my theory goes right out.

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Sevb32 said:

It was a planet with TWO suns.  I know Joel Edgerton was 30 at the the end of ROTS putting him around 50 in ANH. Yes, they aged pretty badly, but there are people who do that it real life too. And technically AOTC was 22 years before ANH. That's an AOTC pic, not ROTS pic.

Look at Robert Shaw.  He was in his late 40s when he filmed Jaws but looked at least 10 years older.

I'm not sure how old the characters were supposed to be in AOTC, but I would have put them both in their early 20s.  I guess those on Tatooine aren't obsessed with anti-aging as those on Earth.