# Star Wars question, with spoiler.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-question-with-spoiler/489480>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 15, 2009, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-question-with-spoiler/489480 "2009-03-15T01:43:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-question-with-spoiler/489480/61 "2009-03-17T05:20:38Z")

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> [@Offkenter](#):
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> This is true, but anyone watching _Revenge of the Sith_ should eject the disk at the end of the lightsaber battle. Everything after is so badly shoehorned in that it makes Jarjar look like a compelling character.

Well, no-you gotta watch Vader crawling up the banks of the lava river. I don’t envy Christensen having to put on all that make-up.

And I don’t think lightsabers are lasers-I think they’re energy beams.

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**Author:** ![Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harvey_The_Heavy)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-question-with-spoiler/489480/62 "2009-03-17T13:34:58Z")

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> [@Sampiro](#):
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> There was a series in the old (late '70s) STAR WARS comic strip in which GMT’s widow was a main character. I don’t remember the details, but Leia somehow wound up as a servant in her house while in hiding from the Empire, and Vader came to one of her galas.

Did he wear a tux?

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-question-with-spoiler/489480/63 "2009-03-17T16:04:54Z")

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I think Basic Black was pretty much his standard garb.

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**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-question-with-spoiler/489480/64 "2009-03-17T17:40:45Z")

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> [@Sampiro](#):
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> Technically, though the kids just called her Gammy Mof.

Or Granmof

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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-question-with-spoiler/489480/65 "2009-03-17T17:58:38Z")

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> [@Hypno-Toad](#):
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> Or Granmof

_Now_ we’re getting somewhere.

"Luke, I am your Father. And this is your Grandmof, ‘Tarkin’. "

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**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2009, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-question-with-spoiler/489480/66 "2009-03-17T23:21:00Z")

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> [@control-z](#):
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> Except for the ending. Higher ground my ass.

the above mentioned body part being one of the few original bits left of mr skywalker!

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