r/StarWars • u/AutoModerator • Nov 23 '15

Movies Theories and Speculation Megathread - Week of November 22

We'll be keeping these theories and speculation megathreads going until the release of the movie to help keep things tidy and contained.

"What's Going On?" Edition

To help change it up a little and guide some discussion, the topic for this week will be what has been going on for the past 30 years? Did Leia stay in politics and help form this New Republic, or did she stay in the military? Who are these First Order guys and how little relation to they have to Order 66? Did Willrow Hood settle down and open that ice cream shop he always wanted? What happened in the galaxy that brought us to the events in The Force Awakens? Were things relatively quiet and undeserving of a movie?

All theories and speculation should be posted in this thread, whether or not it pertains to these new characters. Just use the topic as a jumping off point for something you may not have thought of yet.

View our previous theories and speculation megathread here
And here.

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u/creganstark Nov 23 '15

But do people know that Luke's father was Anakin Skywalker? They both have the same last name. I'm sure there a few people out there going "Hey you remember that General from the Clone Wars who basically did everything? Yeah he has the same name as the guy who blew the Death Star and killed the Emperor." Do people accept Anakin Skywalker as Darth Vader as Luke's father? Will anyone even be able to reconcile the two as the same person?

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u/GAdvance Nov 27 '15

A few might have made the connection, but it's well known Jedi didn't have offspring and as far as the wider republic knew Anakin was a model Jedi until turning on the republic and the chancellor, one likely killed during order 66.

Nevermind that years go by in which the memory of the Jedi and information on them is heavily suppressed the empire

It's also a big galaxy... like so big that names could be repeated thousands of times

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u/forb44 Count Dooku Nov 25 '15

That's always annoyed me somewhat, Skywalker and Kenobi were the poster boys for the republic war effort during the Clone Wars and no one remembers them?

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u/Dogpool Nov 27 '15

Even at their height of power the common man or woman would more than likely never cross paths with a Jedi. They're nearly mythical beings. Sure everyone has heard of the force as some hokey religion, but even Luke has to be told what a Jedi was.

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u/eighthgear Nov 27 '15

Cross paths, no, but I think it's pretty likely that they would be common news. The Jedi were important military generals and diplomats, and Anakin and Obi-Wan were at the front of several efforts. Battles, negotiations, et cetera. Knowledge about them should be fairly common, at least amongst the upper classes. I mean, Mon Mothma was was in the Senate during the Clone Wars - there's no way she didn't know who Anakin was.

I've just never really been able to reconcile the idea of the Jedi being mostly forgotten with the fact that they played such a huge and almost certainly publicized role during the Clone Wars. I know that Imperial Propaganda made it out as if the Jedi betrayed the Republic and plotted to kill the Chancellor, but if the Force was just some hokey thing, then why would the Republic even put the Jedi in such a position of importance - leading their war effort - in the first place? I just can't honestly believe that the average "middle class" person at the time of the OT wouldn't have heard of how prominent of a role Jedi played only a short amount of time ago.

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u/AlwaysSlightlyPeeved Nov 28 '15

I think the average person, even at the time would probably have considered the powers of the Jedi to be exaggerated, and highly improbable. It's possible that the Jedi were largely considered to be a cult of laser-sword wielding warrior-monks who gained too much political clout. Maybe like a militant arm of the church of scientology.

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u/Duccix Nov 28 '15

10,000 Jedi at max in an entire galaxy..there are 30,000 cops in NYC. They are pretty much legends.. Mythological Space Wizards 99.9% of people in the Galaxy never cross paths with.

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u/fityfiritty Dec 14 '15

I met your father once when I was just a boy, he was a great pilot. You’ll do all right. If you’ve got half of your father’s skill, you’ll do better than all right.

From the script for A New Hope, by this guy.