Remember the lightsaber duel in Star Wars? Vader slices through Obie-Wan and the cloak falls to the ground, empty. Vader starts poking around the empty cloak with his toe. Was he perhaps expecting a little three-inch high Obie-Wan to jump out?
Just thought I’d mention that.
“Who’za widdle Jedi Master? Huh? Who’za widdle Jedi Master?”
You know those kooky jedi mind tricks!
Although, I bet even a three inch Kanobi could kick Vader’s ass.
Yet to be reconciled with the reality of the dark for a moment, I go on wandering from dream to dream.
He was checking to see if Obi-Wan dropped his wallet before he vanishted.
He was amazed at what happened. What did happen to the light saber that Obi was using?
The light saber dropped to the deck too.
What bothered me was when the droids were escaping from Capt. Antilles’ vessel at the beginning of the movie a couple of geniuses at the trigger of the star cruiser’s guns said “Hold your fire. There’s no life signs.”
They should have known or at least have been told to expect that sort of thing, cause ideally the plans for the Death Star would be hidden in a droid’s memory.
“Though I hate 'em, I’ll defend to my death your right to use smilies.”
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God. That has got to be my all time geekiest post.
“Though I hate 'em, I’ll defend to my death your right to use smilies.”
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No, no. I think Vader was familiar with the popular legend that if you kill a Jedi Master you will receive a pot of gold. Unfortunately for Vader, though, the legend turned out to be false.
OK, here’s my Star Wars question. I understand that Luke, once he understood about the Force, got better at it even before he went to see Yoda.
But who cranked up Vader’s skills? In the first movie, he’s using the remote-control Vulcan Neck Pinch and taking crap from some loser station commander. By the time the Empire Struck Back, he’s sensing stuff from halfway across the galaxy and moving heavy machinery all over the gas mine with his mind! What, did he get a promotion or something?
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Maybe he learned some things when he was in that meditation chamber thingummy.
What I want to know is, how come Threepio mentions the princess on his second line in the movie, watches as Artoo gets some info slotted in by the Princess herself, then down on Tatooine, pleads ignorance about her.
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In the events leading up to the original trilogy, Vader and Palpatine hunted and killed the galaxy’s 10,000 Jedi, except for Yoda, Kenobi, and perhaps a select few others. Many Jedi have different mind tricks that they have developed over the years. Yarael (sp?) Poof, the gangly, long-necked, four armed Jedi Councilmember, for instance, put visions of his enemy’s worst fear in their heads. Vader was cautious for a good reason. You never know what to expect with them damn waskly Jedi.
Guano, that’s a good question. I’ll have to watch it again to see what your’e talking about.
The answer to this question I do know: C3-PO was built by Anakin, and R2-D2 has met him, but why do neither of them know he’s Vader? Why do they not find it ineteresting that Luke has the same name as Anakin? Answer: The epic’s not over yet. Both droids will have a memory wipe after Phantom Menace, but I’m not sure when. I believe it’s in one of the expanded universe books.
Go ahead, ask me anything about SW (except GuanoLad’s question)
Okay. What exactly is the Kessel Run, and how long is 12 parsecs in earth-time?
I’ve always wondered what the big deal was about the Falcon making the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs.
If you can answer this, I’ll be eternally grateful.
how did it start? well i don’t know i just feel the craving. i see the flesh and it smells fresh and it’s just there for the taking…
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I can do that. I can find out what the Kessel run is, It’s a passage between two planets, I believe. But I have to check out my PM Insiders’ Guide to be sure. And I believer a ‘parsec’ is a real measurement. I’m not sure exactly on that one. But lemmie go check out that CD an I’ll get back to ya…
par-sec n. a unit of distance equal to 206,265 times the distance from the earth to the sun, or 3.26 light years.
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This thread gives two possible answers to Han’s Kessel Run scenario:
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I think the real question(to go back to the OP) has more to do with the line “more powerful than you can possibly imagine”. I mean really, come on here. Since when was the ability to appear infrequently as sort of a ghost-like outline considered highly powerful?
Okay. So we know what a parsec is. Now, Kessel. All I could find was that Kessel is a planet somewhere between Nal Hutta, the Hutts’ home world, and Mon Calamari. This may be significant because Han is a smuggler, and the Hutts are all gangsters. The Kessel Run may be a passage smugglers use that is patrolled by the Empire or the Hutts. But I’ll consult the best Star Wars trivia source I know, my friend Rob.
I don’t buy the course-plotting explanation, because the context is how good/fast the ship is not how good (or crazy) the pilot is (to choose to/be able to run a course near a black hole).
Hey, hey! I found it! It’s in a SW book.
Near as I can tell, Kessel is the planet where they mine spice. And it is surrounded by black holes. So it is an ideal location for outlaws and the like.
Han Solo, being a smuggler, would run through here to lose pursuit.
Jabba even references this in the re-release of SW, when he says that he can’t have smugglers that dump their load at the first sight of Imperial something-or-other.
Anyway, I think the Kessel run refers to navigating the cluster of black holes that surrounds the planet Kessel.
how did it start? well i don’t know i just feel the craving. i see the flesh and it smells fresh and it’s just there for the taking…
VvvV