The Great Droid Amnesia & Other Questions SITH Must Answer

I sure didn’t think so. He looked very calm and focused to me.

  1. How does Obi-Wan Kenobi go from 30-something Ewan McGregor to near-70 Alec Guinness in about 20 years?

  2. When does Darth Vader grow about a foot taller?

Remember to moisturize in the desert heat he did not.

Lifts in those black boots. Dominate, you must, if you want to be a Dark Lord. Otherwise you look like Dark Helmet. :smiley:

Ruined my keyboard you have!

C-3PO has a pretty poor memeory. I was just watching EP IV and the gang almost gets killed in the garbage compacter because C-3PO “forgets” he has a communicator due to all the confusion. What droid forgets things?

That’s just crazytalk.

snerk Making me laugh, you are!

Various answers, some factual, some guesses.

C-3PO certainly had a memory wipe between Episodes III and IV, as did R2, most likely. I think R2 was programmed by Leia to say anything to get to Ben.

Leia claims to remember her mother, sure. It’s possible Padme went to Alderaan with Leia, but in the interests of continuity, I’m going to ret-con it by factoring in Leia’s powers in the Force–it was possible to have contact with her mother without ever actually seeing her–in fact, without even having been born. Why not Luke, you ask? I don’t have an answer for that. :slight_smile:

In the novelization of RotJ, Ben does indeed claim that Owen was his own brother. (I looked up this exact passage earlier this week for another thread.) According to Ben, Anakin never knew Padme was pregnant. If that’s true, it answers every question as to why Vader didn’t just go look for his kids. He didn’t even know they existed until somebody told him the kid who blew up the Death Star was named Skywalker. Leia came as a surprise to him about four years later.

I had more, but they expect me to work or something. :mad:

Maybe it’s a philosophy he only came to live by after meditating in a swamp for twenty years…

And

  1. I think they’ve done a pretty good job of aging Ewan over the course of the trilogy. From the shots I’ve seen of Sith, he looks like he easily be in his late 40s/early 50s.

  2. “He is more machine than man.” Robot legs. Nuff said.

Does Padme like to be tied up when she has sex?

No, but she enjoys being immobilized with styling gel.

Ummm… That isn’t styling gel.

Midichorians

Midichlorians

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3- Why Obi Wan Kenobi denies ever having had an R2 unit in Episode IV (Jedi Alzheimers? “Oh yes… now that I recall we did have a few major campaigns together in the first two movies…”)

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Midichlorians (they’re the answer to everything, but NOT LIFE the Universe and Everything)

Midichlorians (i’m beginning to see a pattern here…)

it’s Jar-Jar’s fault, also…Midichlorians

do you really need to ask , mid…ahhh forget it

:wink:

Speaking of Jar Jar, does he get the gory and hideously painful death that he so richly deserves? After all it is all his fault - he put himself into a position where he allowed Palpatine to manipulate him.

“Look, Grommit - they’re TechnoTrousers - from NASA!” :slight_smile:

Maybe “Skywalker” was as common as “Smith” a long time ago…

Yeah, I wonder if Skywalker is the surname for anyone who arrived on a Space transport to set up a new life, a “sky walker” of no importance, a space bum.

I peaked at the novelization of Sith last night, so I’ll supply an actual spoiler:

Anakin knows Padme is pregnant, doesn’t know about twins (no one does, so much for their prenatal care), and when she dies, the good guys set it up to look like the baby died too.

That sort of name seems to be more a Tatooine thing than anything else (Luke “Skywalker,” Biggs “Darklighter,” etc).