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#794015
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Implied starting date of the Empire from OT dialogue
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ATMachine said:

John Doom raises a very good point.

In fact, although Vader says in ESB that he is Luke's father, never once does he say "I am Anakin Skywalker."

Even Yoda is careful to refer to Vader as "Obi-Wan's apprentice."

The definite assumption that Darth Vader and Anakin Skywalker are one and the same person actually appears to date to the writing of ROTJ, not ESB.

After all, it's quite possible that Mother Skywalker was getting some action on the side....

I do wonder whether or not Lucas was right to make Vader and Anakin the same person. What does everyone here at originaltrilogy.com think?

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#793799
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Implied starting date of the Empire from OT dialogue
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Going only by Star Wars, do we know whether whether Owen was Annikin's brother, Beru was Annikin's sister, or if Lars was the maiden name of Luke's mother? Was Owen actually intended to be Obi-Wan's brother in 1983 like Obi-Wan says he is in the ROTJ screenplay and novelization or did Lucas drop that idea by the time ROTJ was released? Would Owen being Obi-Wan's brother preclude Beru from being Anakin's sister or Luke's mother's sister?

Also, I'd love to read the first edition of A Guide to the Star Wars Universe because it wouldn't be polluted by the EU.

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#793795
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<strong>STAR WARS: REBELS</strong> (animated tv series) - a general discussion thread
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Tallguy said:

Going strictly by Star Wars, the Jedi Knights were around when Luke was born.  Or at the latest shortly before.  So since 1977 it's only been twenty-ish years between Luke's father's death and Star Wars.  So it's not like this was a prequel thing.  If anything you might argue that the fall of the Jedi was even LATER in Luke's lifetime.

Even if this is true, Star Wars does imply that even before the Empire started wiping out the Jedi, the Jedi rarely, if ever used The Force in public.

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#793353
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Implied starting date of the Empire from OT dialogue
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Two of my headcanons about Vader:

1. People who don't know that Palpatine is a Sith Lord think that Vader is a bounty hunter hired by Tarkin. As a result, Palpatine isn't blamed for Vader's actions.

2. Vader rarely, if ever, appears in Imperial propaganda and never gives speeches on Holonet. The Tarkin novel implies that Tarkin gives the majority of the Empire's speeches.

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#793249
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Implied starting date of the Empire from OT dialogue
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ZkinandBonez said: In the early drafts the name Vader actually referred to the Tarkin role (commander of the Death Star and not a sith) and a "Sith Knight" called Valorum played Vader's part, so his role is probably kind of hard to pinpoint in the pre-ESB canon of ANH. 

In the rough/first draft, Tarkin is Crispin Hoedaack, Vader is a general, and Valorum is a Sith Knight. The second draft combined Vader and Valorum.

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#793223
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What do you HATE about the EU?
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I hate how Dark Empire was moved from immediately after ROTJ to after the Thrawn novels at the last minute just because Zahn didn't want to reference Dark Empire. Dark Empire would have worked much better immediately after ROTJ both thematically and in terms of continuity. You'd have a smooth transitiom from the OT to the post-Vader era to the post-Palpatine era. Thrawn could be Palpatine's top admiral (besides dark side Luke) in Dark Empire, setting up the Thrawn novels.

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#792231
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GOOD things about the prequels?
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joefavs said:

Being good in general is no insurance against being bad in a particular movie, especially a Star Wars prequel. Natalie Portman has an Oscar, after all. All I know is that the Palpatine v. Mace Windu confrontation makes me cringe almost as hard as Jedi Rocks, and it's not because of Sam Jackson.

Ian said that he disliked having to perfrom that scene. 

https://youtube.com/watch?v=GjdycGgeaIY