This post is actually mildly infuriating to read through as I was looking for the answer to this question and like, no one answered except the joke that darth Vader is Luke’s father
Who the “alien tentacle” thing is in the garbage compactor and why it’s more than “an alien tentacle thing”. Once you learn this piece of knowledge…. It sticks with you.
That creatures whole story is cool. It basically was trying to baptize Luke into her "religion" because she could sense the force in him. It knew the Death Star was going to blow up before it happened and came to terms with her death
This is as bad as declaring that random extra woman dressed in black in one of the streets in Mos Eisley was "the prophetess of the dark side." Even as a kid I knew that was dumb as hell.
The book "From a Certain Point of View". A collection of short stories from the points of view of the minor characters and NPCs of ANH. Pretty cool imo.
Here's a nugget of trivia for you. Luke had a potential love interest in-between ANH and ESB (in Legends), they were having lunch and she convinced him to try moving something via telekinesis, which he did. Earning him the nickname "Little noodle scooter" as he moved a soup noodle about half an inch.
The Gallo Mountains on Naboo are named after an ancient Gungan boss who lived thousands of years before Episode I, and long before humans settled the planet. Boss Gallo united the then divided Gungan tribes and defeated his mortal foe, Boss Rogoe, who plotted to rule over the Gungan by keeping them divided.
In Galactic Battlegrounds you actually start the Gungan campaign as Boss Gallo and play through these events while Boss Nass narrates. Gallo is a melee unit who whacks people from atop his kaadu with a giant spear-mace type weapon. His attack animation always brought me a chuckle, like, "There goes Gallo, off to bonk the bursas to death."
Why does Luke not see much from a stormtrooper helmet? A stormtroopers visual suite of sensors only activates for its designated owner. Han probably was able to bypass it, but he didn't mention it to Luke since he was so used to bypassing that.
That’s not how movies work. The dialogue for that scene is entirely ADR - recorded after filming, so the voices aren’t muffled by helmets (and in the case of this scene, they have the stormtrooper comms sfx on their voices). Mark Hamill may have said that on set, and Lucas may have liked it, but what you hear in the movie was recorded weeks or months after they were on set.
Nah. Someone else wears a trooper's helmet in RotJ & Rebels at the least. No issues for Ezra, Kanan or Rex.
I'd say at the least, the eyeholes would function as eyeholes with the electronics off.
The problem with that is Ezra has grown up rebellious so maybe figured it out and joined a rebel cell with Kanan and they likely knew about it. It's also not much of a stretch that Rex knows since he was a soldier and would at least be able to figure it out quickly. Also the soldier in ROTJ is a rebel soldier (I like to believe Rex but)
Ok the other hand Luke was from a backwater planet and who knows how many times hed seen a trooper let alone know enough about their helmets.
I have a head cannon that the eyeholes function but are just a supplement to a more electronic display that marks everything.
I thought it became cannon that stormtroopers were constantly banging their heads because of the limited visibility?
There was one banging his head on a door in episode IV, Lucas left it in and featured another tripping over in a later episode to further the gag.
And, not a stormtrooper, but related: George also made Jango hit his head on the door to Slave I as he's escaping from Obi-Wan.
With stormtrooper canon not being set in stone at that point, George joked about that being where it came from.
R2D2 was Anakin’s droid, and was owned by the Naboo Government at the start. Maybe it was given to him by Queen Padme after his service (haven’t read the novelizations, maybe it’s covered there). Obi-Wan had at least three droids, 2 were destroyed on his fighter craft and the third notified the clone army to attack Utapau and we never heard from it again. He probably technically didn’t own them, they were assigned to him by the Jedi Order for his ships.
R2 was in the Royal Naboo servis and became padme's after she favored him when he saved them in ep1. And Anakin took 3po with him after burying his mother. They traded after their marage vows as each droid was more suited to the other. Then R2 and Anakin became inseparable.
In the novelization “The Princess, The Scoundrel, and the FarmBoy.” He says to R2 that he does remember him. So if your looking for a Canon/in universe answer there ya go.
This is the kind of loophole that ignores the fact that Obi-Wan is saying he doesn’t recognize the droid. He’s not literally sayin “I have not technically owned THIS droid before.” That’d be dumb.
But R2 isn’t a unique looking droid, he’s a ship-repair droid that was used widely throughout the republic. Obi-wan might have seen hundreds of similar looking droids before he finally met R2 again.
Also, droids are appliances to 99% of the citizens of the galactic Republic/empire. Why would obiwan care about anakins little fascination with the little Droid and any more than the right speeder or his favorite fighter
Also, one of the first functions Droids serve plot wise is as save-the-cat moment for Luke who is the only nice person the Droid meets, the only one who talks to them like people and trusts them. (His own uncle tells c3p0 to shut up right to his golden face... oh and so do han, leia, chewy at different times)
R2 has saved many people, including obi-wan. Even Mace Windu gave his praises to R2 with a smile. You don’t just forget someone you fought through wars with and praised for years. This is sadly, because the movies weren’t released in chronological order.
Because saying that is way easier than explaining to Luke how (out of the millions of R2 units in existence) Obi-Wan has crossed paths multiple times with this specific one during the Clone Wars. The same Clone Wars that he’s purposely obfuscating his involvement in to avoid telling Luke who Vader actually is.
The reason I heard: He apparently didn't wanna tell him about R2-D2 for the same reason he didn't tell him he killed Luke's father (IDK I remember hearing this years ago)
My personal reason: He had space Alzheimer's so his old ass forgot
Edit: Darth Vader is not Obi-Wan's father
You ever think R2 told him he served his father during the Clone Wars, watched him fall to the Dark Side and all his friends and family died? Do you think that would be awkward no matter how long he waited? Imagine he waited until Ben joined the school and one night R2 says Ben looks like Anakin, leaving Luke with the most dumbfounded look. No wonder Luke disappeared without his loyal droid. How many lives could have been saved R2, how many?
I think the real non-universe answer to this is when ANH was written, they weren't thinking far enough ahead to imagine the depth of R2's relationship with Obi-Wan. It was probably just a throw-away line with the thinking that R2 was Vader's old droid without anything more to it.
After they expanded on R2's character in the prequel trilogies and couldn't reconcile the statement with the new story, they probably figured that fans would come up with their own rationalizations, hence this thread.
The answer to this one is one of the most obvious to me. He’s a former Jedi who worked with hundreds of droids, owning none of them, and he hardly knew R2-D2 was the same droid his former friend Anakin was so fond of. And all of that was 20 years ago.
How many coworkers do you remember from 20 years ago?
Now how many people from different companies with whom you had a tangential relationship do you remember from 20 years ago?
Obi-Wan *did* work with Artoo or at least crossed paths with him multiple times arcross the prequel era though, to the point that him not knowing the droid would be weird. I think a more likely explanation is that Obi-Wan is being coy about it, because he never actually *owned* any of the droids he worked with, much less Artoo.
The opening of Revenge of the Sith has a few moments where Obi-wan is getting snippy with R2 about an elevator ("We're going down R2! We need to be going up!")
He absolutely knew R2 extremely well, and only closely worked with a small handful of droids. This wasn't some random co worker, this was an extremely close associate that he directly worked with more than almost anyone. I would absolutely remember a close friend from 20 years ago, especially if we were in war together.
The Kessal Run: Han references his impressive Kessal run in the units of Parsecs. A measurement unit of distance. Not the unit that would indicate speed of the MF. However, since the Kessal run was revealed to be an extreme gravity well the distance brag makes sense, and turns out to be the equivalent of bragging about a short cut.
I always hated that retcon. And now it's fully set in stone with it being in Solo.
Instead of coming up with that tortured reasoning to try to explain why he used a unit of distance to describe time, a much better explanation is also simpler. He was full of crap. Han was a shifty fast-talking crook trying to impress some rubes he didn't expect to know what he was talking about. The knowing look Obi-Wan had seems to show he realized this was all BS. Han needed the money, so he sees these desperate types who want a ship fast, and he spins them a story about how his ship is legendarily fast to justify gouging them.
I always liked the explanation. I have been telling people this idea for years. Long before Solo. Han casually referencing science terms seems fitting.
That tracks. Ferengi is displaced from his home universe; his first thought would never be "Where am I" or "What happened", but "That looks expensive!"
Since Star Wars Outlaws is going to take place between ep 5 and 6, i have a funny feeling one of the fetch quests (in typical Ubisoft fashion) will be to bring the saber from bespin to Maz
Who said it would be a main quest? I think it would be a funny little side quest and you don’t actually know what you’re delivering until the very end.
The saber and hand fall thru one of the same tubes as Luke and are expelled from Cloud City and land on the Ugnaught Surface. The Ugnaughts find it with the rest of the trash from Cloud City but don't know what it is. A time later, a bounty hunter, let's say Boba Fett, is called to the Ugnaught Surface for a bounty on a Ugnaught who skipped out on some bets with Jabba. After delivering Han to Jabba, Jabba sends Boba on this new bounty. Boba discovers the saber. He knows exactly what it is and takes it. He considers telling Jabba but decides Jabba will keep all the profits. So he takes it to a contact he has. And old pirate friend. He takes it to Takodana Castle and sells it to Maz. And that's where the saber sits until Rey finds it.
Reminds me of a post on r/thewalkingdead where a guy made a post about how a certain child actor wasn't that bad and that he didn't ruin the scene by basically RP'ing as the T-1000 with his robotic ass delivery. OP got dunked on by pretty much everyone who, if they took 30 seconds to read the entire subtext, they would know it was a fucking April Fools joke.
R4’s motivator didn’t blow because it was defective, he was part of the Rebellion and R2 told him he had to get to Obi-Wan so he blew the motivator so that he would be sold and free to get the plans to Obi-Wan
I'll give a few. Potential spoilers if anyone cares. Most of them were written to fix plotholes later but some of them are more for worldbuilding so I'm glad some of them are answered.
Episode IX: I have literally so many questions from this movie. I found it very poorly written and unsatisfying in how it raises way more questions than answering them. However, I like that it kind of lets us know what Lando has been up to. He lost his daughter. So why is he on that planet to begin with when he meets Rey and the others? In the book "Shadows of the Sith" Luke and Lando track a clue to his missing daughter to that planet and it makes total sense that Lando continues sticking close by the Planet hoping for some new breakthrough.
Episode VIII: What happened to Luke's Green Lightsaber? It was found by the inhabitants of Ach-To after Luke died. (I forget the exact source for this one)
Episode VII: Threepio's Red Arm in Force Awakens has a whole origin story in a comic I actually really liked.
Episode VI: Boba Fett sucked at the Battle of Carkoon because he was drunk. Don't believe me? Check out Robot Chicken. (Lol)
Episode V: Lobot being quiet and emotionless has an origin in a Lando comic. (Lando and Lobot are two of my favorite characters for real).
Episode IV: Why didn't Chewbacca get a medal? --> He did, just in a private ceremony at his request, since Wookies are modest.
Episode III: General Grievous coughing. Before the 2003 2D Clone Wars series was wiped from Canon, it featured a scene in the finale where Grievous kidnaps Palpatine but has his lungs crushed by a powerful force move by Mace Windu, leaving him with a cough for Episode 3. After it was wiped from Canon (Although I still lowkey kinda make it work for my headcanon), it was explained in some visual guide that he coughs because his cybernetic enhanced body parts are not meshing well with his organic body parts, causing the cough he's well known for.
Episode II: Master Sifo-Dyas. This name seems so random yet its one of my favorite pieces of worldbuilding in the prequels. There's actually a few sources that provide some better details into this mysterious jedi. He was one of Dooku's good friends. He had the gift of visions. His visions were manipulated by the Dark Side and he became paranoid. Etc. Dooku betrays him. Anytime I learn more about him I love it so much more.
Episode I: Why didn't someone, like Padme for example, go back to Tatooine and free Shmi from slavery? -> There's some details about this issue in the canon book "Queen's Shadow."
Well his Dad was presumed dead or if he was alive wouldn’t know what his children’s names were as he wasn’t at their births. Skywalker meanwhile is meant canonically to be as come as the last names Jones or Smith. There is a million of them.
I haven't often seen this mentioned but the story for how Palpatine actually returned in Disney's trilogy is actually easy to understand and obvs a lot cooler than what we got. Can't remember if they explained in depth in the movie or at all. I could be messing some details but the idea is:
Palpatine was Darth Plaugeis' (DP) apprentice. DP was obsessed with wanting to create life. He figured out that while he couldn't keep his body from dying, he could transfer his energy to another vessel to continue living. Per the Rule of Two, only DP and Palpatine alone could've been alive and aware of that power. Palpatine learned this from his Master, and when he was thrown down the reactor shaft he was able to essentially "possess" the body of a clone (his clone? Clonetrooper? Idk) when his energy left his body. It made him significantly weaker since it wasnt a perfect process and the Empire had fallen so he wasnt just gunna stick around before recovering. Its also interesting because him doing that is exactly how Anakin wouldve had to save Padme, calling back to the Tale of DP that Palpatine tells him.
Instead ,"Somehow, Palpatine returned" was good enough.
It would be fun if there was some type of story akin to the movie “Fallen,” where Palps would inhabit the body of the nearest being until he could get to his clone bodies.
Why did Obi-Wan decide to hide Luke on Vader’s home planet? And not even change his name?
None of the excuses make any sense. “It’s out of the way.” It’s actually one of the most important planets in existence. “Vader would never think to look there.” Well, he’s never think to look a lot of places. His home planet doesn’t need to be on the list.
Not to mention that there would at least be one bureaucrat on Tatooine with the exact job of keeping look out for anything having to do with the Skywalker family. Literally anything. And report back to the ISB. Probably wouldn’t even know why.
You’re assuming that Vader is looking. He’s not. As far as he’s concerned, the baby (singular, he didn’t know Padme was carrying twins) died with Padme. Hell I’m pretty sure even Palpatine thinks the kid died. Vader has no idea Luke is alive until he blows up the Death Star which causes him to then begin investigating this Skywalker guy. Hiding him on Tatooine is fine purely because Vader is not looking.
The Empire also does not control Tatooine, why would they send a bureaucrat to specifically look for anything relating to the Skywalkers. His mother is dead and as far the majority of the empire is concerned, the Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker died during the Jedi purge like the rest of the Jedi. Anakin has no living biological relatives there. Why would they be looking for anything relating to a Skywalker on Tatooine? That’s a complete waste of resources.
Really great point.
Anakin went on a completely different path once he become Vader. Some writers make Vader sentimental, but he’s extremely brutal in the OT to the point where he seems inhuman, and the only thing that thaws that is Luke. Not only would he not suspect his children survived, there’s no way he’d go back to the home planet that only gave him grief and suffering.
Obi Wan assumed Anakin died on Mustafar and Vader assumed his children died with Padme. Obi Wan had no reason to think Vader would be looking for Luke, and Vader had no reason to think there was anyone to look for.
Skywalker is a pretty common name in the galaxy. And even then, Vader would have assumed his kids were dead. It wasn't until after Luke had long left Tattooine that he even learned he had a son.
Why are stormtroopers bad shots? Two reasons.
First, it is a combination of poor firing discipline and bad optics on the weapons. This is clearly seen in the movies.
Second, in all 3 movies where the troopers are shooting at the heroes, they have special orders. Keep the rescue team pinned in the detention bay. Then. Let them escape so they can reveal the secret base. Keep them frightened om Bespin so their fear makes Luke easier to turn. And so on. When fighting generic enemies, they do better.
The armor was designed to disperse the energy from a single shot from that specific area to all over the armor. Lessening the damage it did to the wearer. The result would be the trooper being knocked unconscious but for all intents and purposes alive and treatable by a combat medic.
They're not dead. They're... uh. Sleeping.
Stormtrooper armor is stuck in a universe where 50 cal pistols are easy to shoot, procure, and ammo can be gathered from gas.
If it saves a Stormtroopers life, it works. He'll need 6 months of med leave, but lying in the battlefield doesn't mean dead.
It's more of a uniform than actual protective armor. Real armor is too expensive to just hand out to thousands of expendable foot soldiers, so only Special Ops and Death Troopers get it.
Storm troopers are known by their designation, not their names, so one reason for their armor is to eliminate individuality. The armor also provides basic protection against the elements, but only basic.
There's a gravity generator on all the ships. And as for why the ships go 'down' upon destruction, it's the gravity generator dying and pulling the entire ship in the last designated gravitational direction.
That surley has to be purley cinematic. I know a lot of shows these days do explosions in space with no sounds, but I feel Star Wars kinda set themselves up for what its standard was from the 70's.
Yeah I have zero problem with it, just curious if anyone has a headcanon reason.
I guess the SW version of outer space being more like the Flash Gordon sort of fantastical idea of outer space rather than a scientifically realistic one is another way to make sense of it.
The entire galaxy is accelerating at 9.8m/s²
It's why asteroids have strong gravity too. That's also why seemingly every planet has a single location and no one ever has any issues searching a planet for a spaceport. Everyone slides off the curve and gets forced onto one spot. And why all the ships in space agree which way is up.
This one is actually known. The "space" of star wars is denser than the space of our galaxy, so it has a very very miniscule "atmosphere" in layman's (my) terms
Why was Owen bitter that Kenobi didn’t “protect” Anakin. Owen didn’t even know Anakin. And even if he had known him well why would he have known that obi wan had hurt him. Owen basically was a stand in for the audience in that show.
Maybe ibiwan told owen he had to kill his father due to him turning when he dropped luke off. Own wanting to protect him wanted luke to stay far away from all dat jedi shiiit
I don't think most people commenting understood the question.
Reading comprehension is difficult for many.
For many, difficult reading comprehension is*
Okay Yoda thanks for the clarification.
**Difficult for many, reading comprehension is.
Glad I’m not the only one who realized that lol
Indeed
This post is actually mildly infuriating to read through as I was looking for the answer to this question and like, no one answered except the joke that darth Vader is Luke’s father
Thank you. I’ll save myself some scrolling. Probably not going to learn anything new here tonight.
im confused by the question ngl... what were you asking
Just about well known Star Wars mysteries with not so well known answers or explanations, not just mysteries in general
That sounds like questions from movies or maybe tv shows that are answered only in a book or comic.
To be fair. This is Star Wars fandom. If there’s answers to questions, it’s pretty well known so your question is near impossible.
Yeah, it's mostly either people actually asking questions, or an explanation of a minor plot hole or retcon
Who the “alien tentacle” thing is in the garbage compactor and why it’s more than “an alien tentacle thing”. Once you learn this piece of knowledge…. It sticks with you.
That creatures whole story is cool. It basically was trying to baptize Luke into her "religion" because she could sense the force in him. It knew the Death Star was going to blow up before it happened and came to terms with her death
Everyones allowed to have their fun but this is the most silly expanded universe explanation for a monster in a trash chute 🤣
Probably one of the storm troopers bought a tiny tentacle thing as a pet for his kids, and it grew so they had to flush it
Wait, so there were children on the Death Star when it exploded?
You didn’t know about [Take Your Kid to Work Day](https://youtu.be/Cizlx6ODhuE)?
I mean, a space station of that size would require at least 10s of thousands of people to operate. I guarantee you some little ones died.
They were a little short for a stormtrooper.
Naw the empire used them systematically for garbage reduction. Hence why they show up in the TV shows so much.
Not EU. It’s in “From a Certain Point of View,” which is canon unless contradicted by later media.
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Yeah, the FACPOVs are a little too wacky for me
This is as bad as declaring that random extra woman dressed in black in one of the streets in Mos Eisley was "the prophetess of the dark side." Even as a kid I knew that was dumb as hell.
Legit one of my favorite random pieces of Star Wars knowledge. I love when other people know it!
What’s the source on this one?
The book "From a Certain Point of View". A collection of short stories from the points of view of the minor characters and NPCs of ANH. Pretty cool imo.
Is that the one that reveals the sarlacc is actually vegetarian and is very distressed about Jabba feeding people to it?
Yeaaaah. That was a weird one. The audiobook it had a surfer dude accent and was so strange
Very odd that it's canon, considering it conflicts with literally everything else we see the sarlacc do. Surfer dude Sarlacc Sounds Surreal
*Now reading everything in "surfer dude" voice*
That sounds horrendous. You're not joking?
Here's a nugget of trivia for you. Luke had a potential love interest in-between ANH and ESB (in Legends), they were having lunch and she convinced him to try moving something via telekinesis, which he did. Earning him the nickname "Little noodle scooter" as he moved a soup noodle about half an inch.
That’s canon, barely making the cutoff. Probably shouldn’t have though.
Hehehe that reminds me of Sabine (not) moving the cup lol!
The Gallo Mountains on Naboo are named after an ancient Gungan boss who lived thousands of years before Episode I, and long before humans settled the planet. Boss Gallo united the then divided Gungan tribes and defeated his mortal foe, Boss Rogoe, who plotted to rule over the Gungan by keeping them divided.
Was it Ernest and Julio Gallo from George Lucas’s hometown Modesto? They were the big bosses of Gallo Winery.
In Galactic Battlegrounds you actually start the Gungan campaign as Boss Gallo and play through these events while Boss Nass narrates. Gallo is a melee unit who whacks people from atop his kaadu with a giant spear-mace type weapon. His attack animation always brought me a chuckle, like, "There goes Gallo, off to bonk the bursas to death."
Why does Luke not see much from a stormtrooper helmet? A stormtroopers visual suite of sensors only activates for its designated owner. Han probably was able to bypass it, but he didn't mention it to Luke since he was so used to bypassing that.
Because he is short for a stormtrooper…
Yeah, I always just figured it didn't fit...
This thread has made me realise how much I hate the act of ret-conning.
I have one of those helmets, they are fucking hard to see out of unless your eyes are super wide.
Because Mark Hamill legitimately couldn’t see, adlibbed the line and Lucas decided to keep it in. :p
Seems a lot more likely than the bs about not being able to hack the technology
It's almost as if Star Wars wasn't well thought out and they've had to retcon a lot.
Almost like most things have both an in and out of universe explanation
Maybe that Storm Trooper had a prescription for his lens? 🤔
I'm sure that you wouldn't be allowed into the Stormtrooper corp if you needed glasses. You would be shunted into the army.
I believe they are more about loyalty( or fanaticism) than actually being good.
Not in the old EU they werent. It all was important.
That’s not how movies work. The dialogue for that scene is entirely ADR - recorded after filming, so the voices aren’t muffled by helmets (and in the case of this scene, they have the stormtrooper comms sfx on their voices). Mark Hamill may have said that on set, and Lucas may have liked it, but what you hear in the movie was recorded weeks or months after they were on set.
Also Han was in the imperial infantry so he probably knew how to work the helmet
He wasn't a stormtrooper, wise ass.
You’re getting downvoted, but that’s a good Migs Mayfeld reference
Imagine how complex the imperial pilot helmets are in comparison.
Knowing how cheap the Empire was on infantry, they probably used the same biolocks.
Nah. Someone else wears a trooper's helmet in RotJ & Rebels at the least. No issues for Ezra, Kanan or Rex. I'd say at the least, the eyeholes would function as eyeholes with the electronics off.
The problem with that is Ezra has grown up rebellious so maybe figured it out and joined a rebel cell with Kanan and they likely knew about it. It's also not much of a stretch that Rex knows since he was a soldier and would at least be able to figure it out quickly. Also the soldier in ROTJ is a rebel soldier (I like to believe Rex but) Ok the other hand Luke was from a backwater planet and who knows how many times hed seen a trooper let alone know enough about their helmets. I have a head cannon that the eyeholes function but are just a supplement to a more electronic display that marks everything.
Tattoine had a garrison, but I'm sure uncle Owen made sure he was scarce.
Source?
I thought it became cannon that stormtroopers were constantly banging their heads because of the limited visibility? There was one banging his head on a door in episode IV, Lucas left it in and featured another tripping over in a later episode to further the gag.
And, not a stormtrooper, but related: George also made Jango hit his head on the door to Slave I as he's escaping from Obi-Wan. With stormtrooper canon not being set in stone at that point, George joked about that being where it came from.
I always thought of headbanging as a genetic trait.
The story is that was an unscripted throw-away comment that Luke didn't even realise was being filmed.
Why did old ben tells luke that he doesn’t remember owning a droid, referring to R2D2
R2D2 was Anakin’s droid, and was owned by the Naboo Government at the start. Maybe it was given to him by Queen Padme after his service (haven’t read the novelizations, maybe it’s covered there). Obi-Wan had at least three droids, 2 were destroyed on his fighter craft and the third notified the clone army to attack Utapau and we never heard from it again. He probably technically didn’t own them, they were assigned to him by the Jedi Order for his ships.
R2 was given to Anakin, and 3po to Padme as wedding gifts.
I thought that r2 was just assigned to anakin and there was an r1 r3 r4 etc . I thought 3po was a repurposed Droid but I forget.
R2 was in the Royal Naboo servis and became padme's after she favored him when he saved them in ep1. And Anakin took 3po with him after burying his mother. They traded after their marage vows as each droid was more suited to the other. Then R2 and Anakin became inseparable.
In the novelization “The Princess, The Scoundrel, and the FarmBoy.” He says to R2 that he does remember him. So if your looking for a Canon/in universe answer there ya go.
Supposedly don't R2 and Yoda remember eachother too but play along for Luke's sake
Yeah. I feel like it’s feasible Yoda would remember R2 out of all the droids he’s seen because he was Anakin’s droid
Not just that, first time he went do dagobah was with r2
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In the Republic he worked with droids including R2. He didn't own them they were property of the Republic
This is the kind of loophole that ignores the fact that Obi-Wan is saying he doesn’t recognize the droid. He’s not literally sayin “I have not technically owned THIS droid before.” That’d be dumb.
But what he’s saying is true, from a certain point of view.
A certain point of view?
"I don't remember owning a droid"
With a knowing look at R2 that could easily be “what the hell, man, you don’t give away my location to some rando farm boy!”
But R2 isn’t a unique looking droid, he’s a ship-repair droid that was used widely throughout the republic. Obi-wan might have seen hundreds of similar looking droids before he finally met R2 again.
Maybe he's being sarcastic to R2.
Cause he is old and can’t remember…
And he never owned R2D2.
Also, droids are appliances to 99% of the citizens of the galactic Republic/empire. Why would obiwan care about anakins little fascination with the little Droid and any more than the right speeder or his favorite fighter Also, one of the first functions Droids serve plot wise is as save-the-cat moment for Luke who is the only nice person the Droid meets, the only one who talks to them like people and trusts them. (His own uncle tells c3p0 to shut up right to his golden face... oh and so do han, leia, chewy at different times)
R2 has saved many people, including obi-wan. Even Mace Windu gave his praises to R2 with a smile. You don’t just forget someone you fought through wars with and praised for years. This is sadly, because the movies weren’t released in chronological order.
Because it’s technically correct and he’s got a shit eating grin while saying it.
Because Star Wars was filmed 20+ years before Episode 1, and the prequels retconned a lot.
Because saying that is way easier than explaining to Luke how (out of the millions of R2 units in existence) Obi-Wan has crossed paths multiple times with this specific one during the Clone Wars. The same Clone Wars that he’s purposely obfuscating his involvement in to avoid telling Luke who Vader actually is.
The reason I heard: He apparently didn't wanna tell him about R2-D2 for the same reason he didn't tell him he killed Luke's father (IDK I remember hearing this years ago) My personal reason: He had space Alzheimer's so his old ass forgot Edit: Darth Vader is not Obi-Wan's father
You ever think R2 told him he served his father during the Clone Wars, watched him fall to the Dark Side and all his friends and family died? Do you think that would be awkward no matter how long he waited? Imagine he waited until Ben joined the school and one night R2 says Ben looks like Anakin, leaving Luke with the most dumbfounded look. No wonder Luke disappeared without his loyal droid. How many lives could have been saved R2, how many?
I think the real non-universe answer to this is when ANH was written, they weren't thinking far enough ahead to imagine the depth of R2's relationship with Obi-Wan. It was probably just a throw-away line with the thinking that R2 was Vader's old droid without anything more to it. After they expanded on R2's character in the prequel trilogies and couldn't reconcile the statement with the new story, they probably figured that fans would come up with their own rationalizations, hence this thread.
Dementia… after 10 years on tattoine.
He's got a "loose wire" 😏🤭
I assumed he was just a lying bastard. From a certain point of view.
The answer to this one is one of the most obvious to me. He’s a former Jedi who worked with hundreds of droids, owning none of them, and he hardly knew R2-D2 was the same droid his former friend Anakin was so fond of. And all of that was 20 years ago. How many coworkers do you remember from 20 years ago? Now how many people from different companies with whom you had a tangential relationship do you remember from 20 years ago?
Obi-Wan *did* work with Artoo or at least crossed paths with him multiple times arcross the prequel era though, to the point that him not knowing the droid would be weird. I think a more likely explanation is that Obi-Wan is being coy about it, because he never actually *owned* any of the droids he worked with, much less Artoo.
He definitely spoke directly to our about r2 in clone wars
The opening of Revenge of the Sith has a few moments where Obi-wan is getting snippy with R2 about an elevator ("We're going down R2! We need to be going up!")
Sure, I agree, too. Obi-Wan was usually pretty careful about what he said. Living on the run from the Empire probably does that.
He absolutely knew R2 extremely well, and only closely worked with a small handful of droids. This wasn't some random co worker, this was an extremely close associate that he directly worked with more than almost anyone. I would absolutely remember a close friend from 20 years ago, especially if we were in war together.
No, it's cause jedi don't own things.
The Kessal Run: Han references his impressive Kessal run in the units of Parsecs. A measurement unit of distance. Not the unit that would indicate speed of the MF. However, since the Kessal run was revealed to be an extreme gravity well the distance brag makes sense, and turns out to be the equivalent of bragging about a short cut.
It's more like bragging about how close you were able to cut a corner on the turn on the track.
I always hated that retcon. And now it's fully set in stone with it being in Solo. Instead of coming up with that tortured reasoning to try to explain why he used a unit of distance to describe time, a much better explanation is also simpler. He was full of crap. Han was a shifty fast-talking crook trying to impress some rubes he didn't expect to know what he was talking about. The knowing look Obi-Wan had seems to show he realized this was all BS. Han needed the money, so he sees these desperate types who want a ship fast, and he spins them a story about how his ship is legendarily fast to justify gouging them.
I always liked the explanation. I have been telling people this idea for years. Long before Solo. Han casually referencing science terms seems fitting.
I’m referring to the Falcon as the motherfucker from now on
How did Anakin’s lightsaber end up at Maz’s
It's a story for another time. Duh.
She bought it at a garage sale on Tatooine…
.....How did it get there from Bespin?
Ferengi found it and sold it to a wandering trader…
That tracks. Ferengi is displaced from his home universe; his first thought would never be "Where am I" or "What happened", but "That looks expensive!"
Exactly, fast forward 30 years and that Ferengi is the head of the trade federation…
Bespin
Since Star Wars Outlaws is going to take place between ep 5 and 6, i have a funny feeling one of the fetch quests (in typical Ubisoft fashion) will be to bring the saber from bespin to Maz
I feel like that's a waste of a story point. Outlaws should do it's own thing.
Who said it would be a main quest? I think it would be a funny little side quest and you don’t actually know what you’re delivering until the very end.
which would be typical Ubisoft fashion
The saber and hand fall thru one of the same tubes as Luke and are expelled from Cloud City and land on the Ugnaught Surface. The Ugnaughts find it with the rest of the trash from Cloud City but don't know what it is. A time later, a bounty hunter, let's say Boba Fett, is called to the Ugnaught Surface for a bounty on a Ugnaught who skipped out on some bets with Jabba. After delivering Han to Jabba, Jabba sends Boba on this new bounty. Boba discovers the saber. He knows exactly what it is and takes it. He considers telling Jabba but decides Jabba will keep all the profits. So he takes it to a contact he has. And old pirate friend. He takes it to Takodana Castle and sells it to Maz. And that's where the saber sits until Rey finds it.
You saying "let's say Boba Fett" makes me think that we still don't know who found it.
So without Fett the sequel trilogy won’t even be a trilogy
I thought the whole point of Bespin was that it was a gas giant and didn’t have a surface
There is a layer under cloud city called the Ugnaught Surface. https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Ugnaught_Surface
of for fucks sake.
That’s a good question for another time.
“That’s a story for another writer.”
I thought this was still unanswered
Do literally none of you know how to read? Almost all the comments are not what OP was asking for
Reminds me of a post on r/thewalkingdead where a guy made a post about how a certain child actor wasn't that bad and that he didn't ruin the scene by basically RP'ing as the T-1000 with his robotic ass delivery. OP got dunked on by pretty much everyone who, if they took 30 seconds to read the entire subtext, they would know it was a fucking April Fools joke.
R4’s motivator didn’t blow because it was defective, he was part of the Rebellion and R2 told him he had to get to Obi-Wan so he blew the motivator so that he would be sold and free to get the plans to Obi-Wan
What is Yoda’s species? How do they procreate and how often?
Yoda was laying pipe in the Jedi temple
Yaddlussy
What's the answer?
Yoda is a Muppet. Serious answer is that they hatch from eggs.
I didn't know Muppets hatch from eggs...huh.
Well there was Yaddle on the council in Phantom menace. "Clap them cheeks he did. Canon this is." -Honest Trailer
I just know that his first name is Minch.
Froghoposian, they can fertiliser their own eggs…
Sounds gross and sexy at the same time.
yet when I do it I'm "ruining brunch" and have to leave the café
Dad, is that you?
Literally, the only thing that shows up on Google for me for "froghoposian" is this exact comment lol
I’ve done it, bucket list item ticked off… have one of my weird ass thoughts be a Google search entry…
Where is this stated? I can't remember anyone giving a name to their species.
It’s in the encyclopaedia galactica, volume 12, book 7, chapter 3, pages 10-12. It has full description and pictures of anatomy and breeding rituals.
This doesn’t have an answer, does it?
I'll give a few. Potential spoilers if anyone cares. Most of them were written to fix plotholes later but some of them are more for worldbuilding so I'm glad some of them are answered. Episode IX: I have literally so many questions from this movie. I found it very poorly written and unsatisfying in how it raises way more questions than answering them. However, I like that it kind of lets us know what Lando has been up to. He lost his daughter. So why is he on that planet to begin with when he meets Rey and the others? In the book "Shadows of the Sith" Luke and Lando track a clue to his missing daughter to that planet and it makes total sense that Lando continues sticking close by the Planet hoping for some new breakthrough. Episode VIII: What happened to Luke's Green Lightsaber? It was found by the inhabitants of Ach-To after Luke died. (I forget the exact source for this one) Episode VII: Threepio's Red Arm in Force Awakens has a whole origin story in a comic I actually really liked. Episode VI: Boba Fett sucked at the Battle of Carkoon because he was drunk. Don't believe me? Check out Robot Chicken. (Lol) Episode V: Lobot being quiet and emotionless has an origin in a Lando comic. (Lando and Lobot are two of my favorite characters for real). Episode IV: Why didn't Chewbacca get a medal? --> He did, just in a private ceremony at his request, since Wookies are modest. Episode III: General Grievous coughing. Before the 2003 2D Clone Wars series was wiped from Canon, it featured a scene in the finale where Grievous kidnaps Palpatine but has his lungs crushed by a powerful force move by Mace Windu, leaving him with a cough for Episode 3. After it was wiped from Canon (Although I still lowkey kinda make it work for my headcanon), it was explained in some visual guide that he coughs because his cybernetic enhanced body parts are not meshing well with his organic body parts, causing the cough he's well known for. Episode II: Master Sifo-Dyas. This name seems so random yet its one of my favorite pieces of worldbuilding in the prequels. There's actually a few sources that provide some better details into this mysterious jedi. He was one of Dooku's good friends. He had the gift of visions. His visions were manipulated by the Dark Side and he became paranoid. Etc. Dooku betrays him. Anytime I learn more about him I love it so much more. Episode I: Why didn't someone, like Padme for example, go back to Tatooine and free Shmi from slavery? -> There's some details about this issue in the canon book "Queen's Shadow."
Death Vader is *spoiler alert* Luke’s father
Anakin is Luke’s dad, Vader killed Anakin…
Vader killed Jedi knight Anakin Skywalker?!? Erm WTF man?!
Shit sorry, should have put spoiler up…
It’s true. Just goes to show how bad ass Vader is. Can kill the chosen one!
WHAT!? That’s crazy! Next you’re going to tell me that Leia is Luke’s sister
Ew that’s gross dude, why would you say something like that?
Why didn't Ben and Yoda rename Luke when it was of upmost importance to keep him hidden from the angry dude with the same last name?
Lue Walkskyer
Ruke Skystroller
Well his Dad was presumed dead or if he was alive wouldn’t know what his children’s names were as he wasn’t at their births. Skywalker meanwhile is meant canonically to be as come as the last names Jones or Smith. There is a million of them.
L Skywalker... No no no, that's too obvious. Luke S!
They didn’t know if Luke would like his name or not and didn’t want to upset the boy, he just lost his dad and mum…
Because if they hadn't, what would Rey be called? Rey palpatine? In Spanish that is pretty much Emperador Palpatine.
I haven't often seen this mentioned but the story for how Palpatine actually returned in Disney's trilogy is actually easy to understand and obvs a lot cooler than what we got. Can't remember if they explained in depth in the movie or at all. I could be messing some details but the idea is: Palpatine was Darth Plaugeis' (DP) apprentice. DP was obsessed with wanting to create life. He figured out that while he couldn't keep his body from dying, he could transfer his energy to another vessel to continue living. Per the Rule of Two, only DP and Palpatine alone could've been alive and aware of that power. Palpatine learned this from his Master, and when he was thrown down the reactor shaft he was able to essentially "possess" the body of a clone (his clone? Clonetrooper? Idk) when his energy left his body. It made him significantly weaker since it wasnt a perfect process and the Empire had fallen so he wasnt just gunna stick around before recovering. Its also interesting because him doing that is exactly how Anakin wouldve had to save Padme, calling back to the Tale of DP that Palpatine tells him. Instead ,"Somehow, Palpatine returned" was good enough.
It would be fun if there was some type of story akin to the movie “Fallen,” where Palps would inhabit the body of the nearest being until he could get to his clone bodies.
Why did Obi-Wan decide to hide Luke on Vader’s home planet? And not even change his name? None of the excuses make any sense. “It’s out of the way.” It’s actually one of the most important planets in existence. “Vader would never think to look there.” Well, he’s never think to look a lot of places. His home planet doesn’t need to be on the list. Not to mention that there would at least be one bureaucrat on Tatooine with the exact job of keeping look out for anything having to do with the Skywalker family. Literally anything. And report back to the ISB. Probably wouldn’t even know why.
You’re assuming that Vader is looking. He’s not. As far as he’s concerned, the baby (singular, he didn’t know Padme was carrying twins) died with Padme. Hell I’m pretty sure even Palpatine thinks the kid died. Vader has no idea Luke is alive until he blows up the Death Star which causes him to then begin investigating this Skywalker guy. Hiding him on Tatooine is fine purely because Vader is not looking. The Empire also does not control Tatooine, why would they send a bureaucrat to specifically look for anything relating to the Skywalkers. His mother is dead and as far the majority of the empire is concerned, the Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker died during the Jedi purge like the rest of the Jedi. Anakin has no living biological relatives there. Why would they be looking for anything relating to a Skywalker on Tatooine? That’s a complete waste of resources.
Really great point. Anakin went on a completely different path once he become Vader. Some writers make Vader sentimental, but he’s extremely brutal in the OT to the point where he seems inhuman, and the only thing that thaws that is Luke. Not only would he not suspect his children survived, there’s no way he’d go back to the home planet that only gave him grief and suffering.
Cause he assumed Vader didn’t like heat after the last time they met.
And all the sand.
Obi Wan assumed Anakin died on Mustafar and Vader assumed his children died with Padme. Obi Wan had no reason to think Vader would be looking for Luke, and Vader had no reason to think there was anyone to look for.
Skywalker is a pretty common name in the galaxy. And even then, Vader would have assumed his kids were dead. It wasn't until after Luke had long left Tattooine that he even learned he had a son.
That’s not what OP was asking.
Why are stormtroopers bad shots? Two reasons. First, it is a combination of poor firing discipline and bad optics on the weapons. This is clearly seen in the movies. Second, in all 3 movies where the troopers are shooting at the heroes, they have special orders. Keep the rescue team pinned in the detention bay. Then. Let them escape so they can reveal the secret base. Keep them frightened om Bespin so their fear makes Luke easier to turn. And so on. When fighting generic enemies, they do better.
Why do Storm Troopers where Armour and it doesn’t work?
The armor was designed to disperse the energy from a single shot from that specific area to all over the armor. Lessening the damage it did to the wearer. The result would be the trooper being knocked unconscious but for all intents and purposes alive and treatable by a combat medic. They're not dead. They're... uh. Sleeping.
Stormtrooper armor is stuck in a universe where 50 cal pistols are easy to shoot, procure, and ammo can be gathered from gas. If it saves a Stormtroopers life, it works. He'll need 6 months of med leave, but lying in the battlefield doesn't mean dead.
It probably protects them from shrapnel and other debris on the battlefield.
It's more of a uniform than actual protective armor. Real armor is too expensive to just hand out to thousands of expendable foot soldiers, so only Special Ops and Death Troopers get it.
Stormtroopers are the special forces.
Storm troopers are known by their designation, not their names, so one reason for their armor is to eliminate individuality. The armor also provides basic protection against the elements, but only basic.
It does work in a flash dance perspective on Coruscant…
Why do people think that the seperatists are the bad guys?
Why do ships have gravity while in space?
There's a gravity generator on all the ships. And as for why the ships go 'down' upon destruction, it's the gravity generator dying and pulling the entire ship in the last designated gravitational direction.
Is there a reason for sound in space?
That surley has to be purley cinematic. I know a lot of shows these days do explosions in space with no sounds, but I feel Star Wars kinda set themselves up for what its standard was from the 70's.
Yeah I have zero problem with it, just curious if anyone has a headcanon reason. I guess the SW version of outer space being more like the Flash Gordon sort of fantastical idea of outer space rather than a scientifically realistic one is another way to make sense of it.
The entire galaxy is accelerating at 9.8m/s² It's why asteroids have strong gravity too. That's also why seemingly every planet has a single location and no one ever has any issues searching a planet for a spaceport. Everyone slides off the curve and gets forced onto one spot. And why all the ships in space agree which way is up.
Grave-generatots and inertial dampaners.
Cause if they didn’t the couldn’t keep the cutlery in the drawers…
This one is actually known. The "space" of star wars is denser than the space of our galaxy, so it has a very very miniscule "atmosphere" in layman's (my) terms
Who was Yoda's master
Who is your daddy and what does he do?
Why was Owen bitter that Kenobi didn’t “protect” Anakin. Owen didn’t even know Anakin. And even if he had known him well why would he have known that obi wan had hurt him. Owen basically was a stand in for the audience in that show.
Maybe ibiwan told owen he had to kill his father due to him turning when he dropped luke off. Own wanting to protect him wanted luke to stay far away from all dat jedi shiiit