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The search continues (lemmy.world)
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[–] 138 points 3 months ago (18 children)

I hate to defend bad writing, and I hate even more when fiction feels the need to retroactively try to explain things that don't need it, but here goes anyway.

In the novel Kenobi the Tatooine locals find out his last name and immediately start wondering if he's related to any of the other Kenobis they know in the area. So they do at least give a few paragraphs to pointing out that it's a somewhat common last name.

Then there's "Skywalker," where fans say oh it's a common last name that's why no one batted an eye at it. But I just assume that Luke went by Luke Lars up until the events of ANH.

There's probably something in canon that contradicts that, and the Kenobi novel is no longer canon either, but you know what? It's all made up and I don't care, I just picture it like I want to.

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  • [+] 43 points 3 months ago (5 children)
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  • [–] 15 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    I love the radio dramas. I also love that George Lucas loved NPR so much that he worked with the NPR station near Skywalker Ranch to make it happen.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

    I love that George Lucas was in it for the love of the game. He's a true artist.

    edit: fuck me he's pro AI in movies.

    People love to shit on his creative decisions in the prequels... but at least he wasn't making them for the vapid commercially driven motivations infecting everything now a days.

    Dude was passionate about making cool movies in new ways; and he succeeded.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

    Darth Vader never once in all those years went to have Thanksgiving Dinner with his half brother.

    Think of what good for the Empire would have occured.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    He wasn't his half brother, he would've been a step brother, wouldn't he?

    Also the Lars family always over-cooks the turkey and Owen is always saying some racist bullshit about sand people at the dinner table every fucking year.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    In the novel Kenobi the Tatooine locals find out his last name and immediately start wondering if he's related to any of the other Kenobis they know in the area.

    Kenobi is from a grassworld so I don't buy the "common name" thing. Doesn't make sense. In my head cannon he jedi mind tricked people around him into thinking they knew someone with the same last name. If Vader got too close he'd get sent on a bunch of wild goose chases. Also if there were actual Kenobi's Obiwan would be putting them in danger and probably assume a false identity instead.

    But I just assume that Luke went by Luke Lars up until the events of ANH.

    Unfortunately he must have gone by Skywalker because after ANH Vader sent Boba to hunt the unknown pilot. Which led Boba to Tatooine, where he interrogated people who knew luke, fought him in Obiwans house, and revealed to Vader he had a son via the name Skywalker; which is probably the only reason Vader gave him future chances.

    Easily the biggest plot hole in the entire star wars universe.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    I don't think it makes any sense to debate what makes sense in a fictional universe.

    Unfortunately he must have gone by Skywalker because

    I mean, you could just...ignore all that. I never read that particular part of the EU so I just don't consider it.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I mean the empire hunted down every Jedi, you'd think they could hunt down every Skywalker and every Kenobi as well

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago

    So, the storyline on "every last Jedi" gets soft around the edges with all the EU material. Because everyone wants to write a book or do a game or whatever about "the OTHER other last Jedi". And then you've got to explain Joruus C’baoth. And nobody wanted to see Ahsoka Tano die. And they resurrect Darth Maul at some point. And and and...

    This means you get a bunch of hand-waving explanations for why this or that professionally trained force user doesn't fall under Yoda's strict categorization of "Jedi", at the moment he says the thing to Luke Skywalker in the Third Movie. And, along the way, it carves out a bunch of caveats and exceptions for why Darth Vader didn't quite get them all.

    Frankly, I think it's enough to say the galaxy is big and Tatooine is very remote and the Empire doesn't have a ton to fear from a Jedi survivor who kept his head down for twenty years.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago*

    I can appreciate a little fun pointing out inconsistencies while still understanding the movies would be considerably worse if the writers spent any effort trying to prevent Lemmy inconsistency memers.

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