# General Grievous' Origin:  What's Known?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 23, 2005, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-grievous-origin-whats-known/305090 "2005-05-23T14:19:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2005, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-grievous-origin-whats-known/305090/21 "2005-05-25T18:13:00Z")

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> And how did the glass magically regenerate for the landing sequence?

After Greivous gets sucked out, there’s a shot of a blast plate closing off the bridge. Did they later show a shot of them looking out the window while they were landing?

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**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2005, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-grievous-origin-whats-known/305090/22 "2005-05-25T18:45:48Z")

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> he seemed more badass in Clone Wars).

Everyopne seemed more badass in CLone Wars. Its Genndy Tartakofsy syndrome.

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> According to the lore, only people with a certain level of ability and training in the Force can create lightsabers

I should note that few people paid atention to that idea, and it wasn’t, IIRC, one of George Lucas’ ideas. Also, it made no sense.

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> And how did the glass magically regenerate for the landing sequence?

There’re at least three seperate panes on the bridge. Only one of them broke.

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