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#1 diligent_d

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Posted 22 February 2006 - 02:27 AM

So, uh, I guess Luke wasn't born on Tatooine after all - but instead he was born on Coruscant.

Doesn't that not rock, or what?

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Posted 22 February 2006 - 04:17 AM

shock horror.

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Posted 22 February 2006 - 08:10 AM

QUOTE (diligent_d @ Feb 22 2006, 02:27 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

So, uh, I guess Luke wasn't born on Tatooine after all - but instead he was born on Coruscant.

Doesn't that not rock, or what?

I never just assumed he was born on Tatooine. Maybe in ANH. But after I found out about the grand Vader/Anakin/father conspiracy, I just assumed Luke had at one point been put there to live with his relatives. I could never imagine Darth Vader living on a crappy planet like Tatooine. I always figured he came from someplace cool. Like Dagoba.

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Posted 22 February 2006 - 08:48 AM

So, uh, I guess Luke wasn't born on Tatooine after all - but instead he was born on Coruscant.

Doesn't that not rock, or what?

Er?

Before the dark times (PT) I'm not sure where I thought Luke was born. I'd figured at one point (in my fanboy thinking at one time) that Luke and Leia might have been born on Dagobah in secret and then spirited away.

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Posted 22 February 2006 - 12:34 PM

Yeah actually good points.

I suppose if Luke was born on Tatooine, that would mean Leia was too. Which would seem more strange.

Disregard my post.

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Posted 22 February 2006 - 12:51 PM

What about Jabba- Was he a creature calle Hutt, as in "Jar-Jar the Gungan" ?

(Or would it be "Jar-Jar, the Naboobian"?)

or was it some ominous sounding title which, when explained at the shortest length turns out to be a lame expanation or a contradiction?

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Posted 22 February 2006 - 04:20 PM

QUOTE (diligent_d @ Feb 22 2006, 02:27 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

So, uh, I guess Luke wasn't born on Tatooine after all - but instead he was born on Coruscant.

Doesn't that not rock, or what?

Actually they were born on Polis Massa, a group of "airless rocks".

Now that rocks. LITERALLY!

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Posted 22 February 2006 - 05:40 PM

goof...

given his attitude towards the planet, i always asumed he was dumped there, and knew it.

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Posted 22 February 2006 - 07:52 PM

QUOTE (Chefelf @ Feb 22 2006, 05:20 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Now that rocks. LITERALLY!

Jedi Rocks?

I thought this was cute. The Star Wasr database calls the rocks' denizens: "Aliens".

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Posted 22 February 2006 - 10:20 PM

Two things about Polis Massa.

1) Its called Polis (city) which would make you think its talking about a city which is fine. But no apparently its named after an alien race. Its "Rancor", "Mon Calamari" all over again.

2) From the databank: "She gave birth to Luke and Leia, infants that carried with them the hope for the future."

Why would Vader's children be a last hope? Thats like saying Hitler's kid would be the last hope for the Allies.

It seems like everyone is over the nitpicking. Too bad.

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Posted 22 February 2006 - 10:23 PM

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Posted 23 February 2006 - 07:45 AM

Obi wan must really have been buying into the prophecy at that time. That’s the only explanation because there had to be millions more force sensitives all around the galaxy. Yoda should have drug his sorry ass out of exile and actually tried to look for some more kids to train over the last 20 or so years, instead of waiting around for Scooby/Luke to finally get there. And if Luke was too old to train - why did Obi wan wait til he died before he told Luke to go to Degoba, he should have just left Luke with Yoda. That would have mad much more sense strategically.

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Posted 23 February 2006 - 05:46 PM

Among the notes of my multitude of rewrites, I had written that there were no other Jedi other than Vader, Obi-Wan, Yoda, and Luke & Leia, mainly because the Dark side "consumed" the Force, used it and drained it, that it prevented any new births of Jedi.

I do have problems with Obi-Wan sitting on his hands from the end of ROTS till ANH just waiting for Luke to "grow up."

The only way I can make it work for me, and makes sense to me WHY he gave Luke to Beru and Owen is that Obi-Wan needed to watch the kids while he took off to fight the newly forming empire AND to distract Vader and the Emperor away from the twins. He would've also been running to Alderaan to check up on Leia.

Also, this would the basis for his knowledge of stormtrooper weapons, TIE fighters and other Imperial technology. So, say after about 10 years of this, he's been to one end of the galaxy to the other fighting for justice, etc., that he's gotten so beat up and injured (notice he limps in ANH) that he really has no choice but to go back to Tatooine and stay there.

In the meantime, Owen has grown bitter. "Why has he laid this kid at our feet while he goes running off on some damn fool idealistic crusade?" "What if [Vader/Anakin] comes looking for the kid."

It works so much better than Obi-Wan meditating for the next 20 years.

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Posted 23 February 2006 - 09:03 PM

Maybe obi wan limps trippping over his penis cuz it hangs loose in his old age!@ or limp bizcuit is makin a foo out of us.

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