OP
OP
-
Ever wanted an RSS feed of all your favorite gaming news sites? Go check out our new Gaming Headlines feed! Read more about it here.
-
We have made minor adjustments to how the search bar works on ResetEra. You can read about the changes here.
Why did Luke assume that Leia was talking about someone on Tatooine? The Galaxy is huge you guys.
- Thread starter Kitsunelaine
- Start date
- Status
Gaming, Etcetera, and Star Wars.
As for OP's question, Luke probably assumed the message was for someone on Tatooine because if you're in distress, it makes sense to try to get help from someone nearby.
The droids landed in the middle of nowhere-ville. Luke has no reason to think they're far away from their intended recipient. If you lived in a town with barely anybody in it, and somebody rolled up and said "hey I'm looking for a dude named Kenobi," you'd probably think it was the only Kenobi you knew.
OP
OP
In some cut scenes, Luke and his friends watch the battle between the Tantive IV and Star Destroyer and see the escape pod crash toward the planet. I guess he figured it was their destination.
OP
OP
They're basically Kurosawa samurai references. Repurposing them as the standard issue Jedi robe was one of the weirdest decisions Lucas made in the prequels. So Obi-Wan was in hiding but he never took off his uniform. Good job, Ben.
Obi-Wan exclaims "We're smarter than this!" in ROTS. Are they though?
Yeah, there's a whole bunch of people (including me) who swear they saw this footage back in the day when it aired on network TV, though there's no evidence that it actually aired. No one's quite sure where we saw this footage, or if it's some sort of collective delusion.
Not a very good one.
His nephew pawned his lightsaber for power converter money.
Lol
Stormtroopers are advancing on the farm. Owen runs to his closet, pulls out case where he keeps his lightsaber. He opens it and it's an IOU from Luke for one kyber crystal.
Owen: "Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck!!!!!"
OP if somebody knocked on your door and asks for someone with the same last name as your neighbor do you say "maybe they're related, try next door" or do you say "do I look like a phone book? fuck off."
I've always wondered which one was Owen and which was Beru? I figured the one facing the ground was Owen. He like tripped on the top step on the way out to complain about all the commotion and got smoked.Not a very good one.
OP
OP
if I purchased space droids that happened to have a recording that looks dusty and old that i activated by accident when cleaning them i wouldn't assume they were talking about the person down the street
With the same name? Yes you would. And your a moisture farmer. You got nothing better to do them check.
Not a very good one.
I guess you could say their moisture got vaporated.
Her ship was attacked by Vader's over tattooine. It's not a huge leap to think that she'd come to a backwater planet like tattooine to find the person she was looking for, and Ben had the same last name.
Exactly. The outer rim territories were unaffiliated with the Empire, as they were ruled by various factions, mostly the Hutt Crime Syndicate. So why would the rebellion and the empire be fighting in orbit over Tatooine? Obviously, the rebellion was there for a purpose
OP
OP
But is it obvious to someone like Luke? How much information does Luke have? Does he know if the name Kenobi is common or uncommon? Does he watch Porg News enough to know his planet's standing in the war? Did he major in political theory? We know he's aware of other planets enough to reasonably intuit that the droids are interplanetary in origin.
Luke's world is small. The number of people he knows is small. Hearing Kenobi when you know someone with that last name in your limited acquaintances causes you to want to find out if there's any connection.
Do you think luke skywalkers dog was burned alive too like his aunt and uncle?
OP
OP
In all likelihood, Kenobi wanted Luke to eventually figure out who he really is, so he made it easy by not changing his name too much. Otherwise, what is the point of getting who he believes is the chosen one of his intent is for the guy to just live out his boring farm life and not get involved with the war at all?
As for hanging out around Tatooine, it's actually a good hiding place for a few reasons:
1. Vader already knows there are Skywalkers there, but they are unimportant ones, so their kids likely would be too. Remember that Vader doesn't know he has kids at all.
2. Because of the above, there's little reason to think Obi-wan would be there.
3. Vader hates going back there anyway because of his childhood as a slave.
4. Sandstorms fuck up imperial comms.
So, really, all Obi-wan had to do was lay low and not use the Force, and no one would find him.
Yeah, he's shown to pretty much be a hick who has no idea how big the galaxy is or what's really going on. He's not in a bar two seconds before he's in a fight that Kenobi has to save him from, ending in death and dismemberment. He almost spoils the deal with Han by bragging about how good of a pilot he is and again, Kenobi has to salvage the situation (without dismembering anyone) to get their asses off the planet.
Han tells him to sit down and shut up when he tries to talk smack about going into hyperspace. Then he's super emotional over losing Ben Kenobi, a man he'd only met earlier that day, as he's comforted by a woman who's entire planet was just destroyed a couple hours before as a sardonic joke.
At the end, he's Mr. Big Talk and relates destroying a planet-killing moon to shooting local rodents from his cropduster, as the pilot next to him nods politely, no doubt aware how dire their situation must be if this shithead was given a flightsuit and an X-wing to pilot.
He's kind of a dumb dick.
"He says that he's the property of Obi-Wan Kenobi, a resident of these parts, and it's a private message for him."
OP
OP
Only after setting out, though. And after Luke already made the assumption!
Please continue this discussion in the OT
- Status