this bugged me at first too, but after seeing episode iii, it makes sense. alec guinness portrayed obi wan when obi wan was struck down by vader. hayden christensen portrayed anakin when he was struck down by obi wan. clearly lucas wants us to see anakin - the 'good' anakin - as being personified as the way he looked before the incident on mustafar.

i don't know if i 100% LIKE lucas' choice - i'm not thrilled with his whole revisionist spin on his films, but i guess it's his prerogative - but i can understand it. it would have been nice to leave the scene as it was, to symbolize that the older vader had found peace, rather than to find peace in his afterlife he'd have to revert to a younger version of himself.

Yes, but he is referring to Luke Skywalker's, quite specifically, and is doing so in a rather mocking tone. Vader is a Sith, and has a lightsaber throughout the entire original trilogy (and before you try to say that George didn't come up with the Sith concept back then, it was in the earliest drafts of the script, and the novelization of the first film refers to Vader as "The Dark Lord of the Sith"). Also, keep in mind that the Sith were an offshoot of the Jedi. Many of the trappings of the Sith are still referred to as the "Jedi arts" (Qui Gonn says that Darth Maul has been well trained in the Jedi Arts, and General Grievous also makes a statement that he was trained in them by Dooku/Darth Tyranus)

I didnt said the emperor did this, but why he made vader so slow and somekind weak? grivous were much stronger and faster physically than vader! What i said is that the emperor did built vader in a suit that made him weaker than he could be. Imagine grivous with the force power of vader, he would be invincible.

Or your assumption?!

No, not my assumption. I'm pretty well versed in SW lore.

The films (and the continuity) are flawed. It was inevitable, as Lucas was making it up as he went. He admits himself that he didn't have the story to the ep 1, 2 and 3 at the time he made 4, 5 and 6. In fact, its quite obvious he didn't have the story of 5 and 6 ready when he made 4. He simply had his 1973 notes, and a rough idea about backgrounds.

Sure, of course he did. I've never disputed that.

Be it continuity, or simply hard to explain answers, my funnies I would love George to answer are.....

Why does Anakins ghost now appear as Hayden, rather than Sebastian Shaw, yet Obi’s remains as Sir Alex rather that being Ewan.

I agree. That bugs the crap outta me.

Does vader not click when he finds out that a Skywalker, strong with the force, blows up the deathstar?

Umm, yes, he does. This is explained in the opening crawl of ESB, when it clearly says that Vader is obsessed with finding Luke. Obviously, he had found it out, but was keeping it a secret from the Emperor (who found out about it on his own, and let Vader know in a very covert way during his holographic communication to him on his star destroyer. Vader feigns ignorance, but we know from the opening crawl that Vader was WELL aware that the Force strong rebel who blew up the first Death Star was actually his son).

Luke clearly asks Leia, “tell me about your mother, I mean, your real mother”. They both know she is adopted. So how does she remember Padme? Her use of the force is made up by some fans for convenience.

Where does it say that Leia knew she was adopted?? Yes, Luke knows, so he is thinking in terms of her "real mother", but to Leia, Queen Organa WAS her mother. Even in terms of her thinking of Padme, it still makes sense, since she describes it as "vague impressions".

And if leia has force powers, Vader couldn’t sense it a foot away from her?

Who says he didn't? Plenty of people have Force potential, but no training. He had no idea that she was his daughter, so he had no interest in turning her. She was to be executed by the Empire, so she would have met the same fate as all the Jedi Vader had helped slaughter. Her having Force potential is irrelevant to Vader, at this point. Once he knows she is his daughter, THEN her abilities become of interest to him

So it took 18 years to build the first death star, and 6 months to build the second?

First off, the Death Star witnessed in ROTS is the prototype from Maw Installation (actually, the "great weapon" of the Seperatists, taken to the Maw to be tested and completed). The Death Star that was seen in ANH is the finished model, after all the kinks were worked out (do you really think that a battle station that was the size of a moon wouldn't have some design flaws to overcome?)

Second, you are incorrect on the timeline. ROTJ happens about five years after the events of ANH, and there is nothing to suggest that the Empire didn't already have the second Death Star under construction before the first was destroyed (its been hinted at in the novels that the Emperor actually intended to have a full fleet of them, to send to all the major systems. His plan was to rule the galaxy completely through fear).

A Lightsaber. In the emperors words, is “the weapon of a jedi knight”. Err, no, sith too now.

Yes, but he is referring to Luke Skywalker's, quite specifically, and is doing so in a rather mocking tone. Vader is a Sith, and has a lightsaber throughout the entire original trilogy (and before you try to say that George didn't come up with the Sith concept back then, it was in the earliest drafts of the script, and the novelization of the first film refers to Vader as "The Dark Lord of the Sith"). Also, keep in mind that the Sith were an offshoot of the Jedi. Many of the trappings of the Sith are still referred to as the "Jedi arts" (Qui Gonn says that Darth Maul has been well trained in the Jedi Arts, and General Grievous also makes a statement that he was trained in them by Dooku/Darth Tyranus)

Obi spends a hell of a lot of time with R2D2, not to remember him 18 years later.

Agreed, but keep in mind that the astromech droids pretty much all look the same. I think it didn't click with Obi Wan that R2 was an old friend until after he received the message from Leia (he's also puzzling out the whole thing of being told that the droid is his property, which R2 never was. R2 tells this to 3PO and Luke to give him the right to seek out his "master").

Yoda clearly spells out “No, there is another”. Whichever way you look at it, Obi should have known.

Again, I think Obi Wan just wasn't thinking. He had been so focused on Luke, that Leia's importance fell by the wayside.

Why didn't R2 tell 3PO that they have been to Tatooine not once, but twice and that 3PO was actually made there?

Why would he??? 3PO is a friggin' blabbermouth, while R2 is much smarter and more discreet. The whole reason that 3PO's memory is wiped, but R2's isn't, is due to this fact. C3PO is on a need-to-know basis only.

C3PO can power his head alone in Clones, but loses the ability by Empire Strikes back?

I agree with this one. I'll chalk it up to years of corrossion. This is one of the few things you've sited that I believe to be a genuine inconsistency in continuity.

And what did happen to R2’s handy rocket boosters and jumping ability in episode 4, 5, and 6?

The official explanation (and I think its a pretty stupid one) is that the boosters simply broke over time, and none of his later masters bothered to get it fixed, due to the expensive nature of the parts. Apparently, R2's warranty had expired (believe it or not, I'm not making this up. This was the explanation given on the official site)!!!

Leia snogs her brother! Are you sick?



It's gross, but they don't KNOW they are siblings. Not an error, just something icky.

There are loads more, but thats for another day!

I know the typical EU answers to most of these, but lets be honest. They are all made up!


It's a fictional story. All of it is "made up"!!

To me, the worst performance of the entire series is Carrie Fisher's in ROTJ.

You realize, of course, that this is heresy?

Ban you from Jedi Council, we will!

Sorry, but it's true. She is so coked out of her gourd it ain't funny. The whole scene between her & Han in the Ewok village? "Just hold me"...oh man! Sooooo bad (and it ain't just the dialogue).

She is redeemed in that movie by her slave outfit, which was the sexual awakening of many a young man!

I have a problem with Palpatine suddenly displaying ridiculous fencing lightsaber skills against his Jedi assailants.

In a recent interview, Iain Mc Diarmid confessed he thought this was a tad unnecessary since he had always believed the Emperor could have succeeded in being as cunning and as devious by "using his brain", instead of resorting to conventional violence.

I tend to agree with Mc Diarmid on this.


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He has to be able to get nice with his saber because 1) he is a Sith Lord, and 2) he knew there was a chance the outnumbered Jedi would discover his identity and come after him.

And it's not like Sidious was great. Sure, he did away with 3 Jedi in 30 seconds. But he lost to Windu and even tried to run from Yoda before Yoda got the better of him ('til the very end).

That loss to Windu is debatable I think. Many folks believe that Sidious was toying with Mace until Anakin arrived (as if he knew Anakin was coming).
There have been some pretty interesting arguments from both sides.

That loss to Windu is debatable I think. Many folks believe that Sidious was toying with Mace until Anakin arrived (as if he knew Anakin was coming).
There have been some pretty interesting arguments from both sides.

What I never understood was how Vader defeated Sidious in ROTJ. Didn't he just pick him up and throw him over the safety railings? Surely he should have been harder to kill than that?

Palpatine was totally intent on killing Luke at that point and didn't even see it coming. Vader took him by suprise and tossed him into the shaft without too much of a struggle. The only way Palpatine fought back in this brief time was through his force-lightning since he was already using it on Luke. Thta's why Vader was doomed after this since his circuits were pretty much fried.

Luke got sucked...shaft...The Emperor exploded...head