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Diplomatic Immunity (media.kbin.social)

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[–] [email protected] 112 points 1 year ago (5 children)

None of Star Wars makes any sense in context. From "Darth" to the whole I think I have your dad's lightsaber stashed here somewhere thing to who Luke's family is supposed to be and these days even Obi Wan's weird desert hermit outfit now being official Jedi uniform, apparently or how Vader keeps getting bullied by all of the Empire's middle management.

Honestly, that last one is the most impressive. In retrospect, Tarkin is an absolute badass that doesn't give a crap about Vader's whole deal. And it works. The magic space wizard that basically runs the empire and everybody is terrified of just sits there and takes it. You have to respect that.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Vader wasn’t originally planned to be Luke’s dad. One of the producers came up with it halfway through Empire.

Part of being Sith is fucking over others, even those you are “allied” with. The way to become second in command is to kill the current second in command. Tarkin is at the point in his career where killing Vader would probably be a good move if he could manage it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Wasn't Vader being his dad hinted at in a new hope when Luke talks to obi wan?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

'Vater' is father in German. Make of that what you want.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

And "vader" is father in Dutch 😊

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

It matches sith naming scheme better, it was probably supposed to be inVader just like how Sidious is inSidious.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Original draft of Empire by Leigh Brackett had Luke meet a force ghost of his dad. Obi Wan pretty clearly says in the original that Vader killed Luke’s father, which you can certainly claim he was being metaphorical, but I’ve never really gotten that vibe. Luke and Leia are also infamously handsy. I suggest hunting down VHS rips of the originals to see what you think. It’s a shame we’ll never get the unaltered versions in HD.

George Lucas claims it was always his plan, but he also has waffled on so many things (was it always planned to be 6 movies? Or 9? Or just a one and done?) One aspect is that he did have just a shit ton of random, unhinged ideas that never made it in.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah I took it as the metaphorical approach, that was my take with my first exposure being the VHS tapes from the 90's.

Lucas always seemed a bit out there

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Darth father....

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

There are a lot of late addition scenes to the versions of a new hope that have played over the last couple decades.

I tried to look that up, but the dialogue changes are so numerous they don't list them.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Doesn't matter, really.

Because the most inconsistent thing in that scene ends up being Obi Wan choosing from the entire prequel canon the idea that Anakin was "the best pilot in the galaxy".

Seriously, he tells him that:

his dad was a good pilot.
his dad was a cunning warrior and a good friend
his dad wanted him to have his lightsaber when he was old enough.

It's not just that the facts of the conversation are wrong, it's that the tone of the conversation is entirely off for what ended up being canon, even before the prequels, but DEFINITELY after the prequels.

People latch on to the "Vader" thing, and who's to say, but it's absolutely clear watching it that the backstory they hint either makes no sense, is different than what they ended up doing, or both.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You’re not wrong, but what points you to Tarkin being a Sith?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don’t think Tarkin has to be a Sith - more that he’s a smart cookie and knows how the politics work. He knows that if he could find some way to take down Vader, it would make him look more powerful/valuable in Palpatine’s eyes.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Most of human history doesn't make sense if you scrutinize it enough.

The US military, the strongest army in the world, was defeated by a bunch of rice farmers? Come on, get some better writers.

And the atomic bomb. Clearly the writers didn't know how to end the WW2 story arc so they just came up with this super lazy plot device. And you can see that they don't have any faith into it since they haven't used it ever since, hoping that we would just forget about it

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ha! And then the spinoff built up the bomb as the big bad for the whole damn series but we never got a payoff, just a wall falling down. LAZY.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The US military, the strongest army in the world, was defeated by a bunch of rice farmers? Come on, get some better writers.

The Vietnamese were a sophisticated guerilla force that had already successfully fought the French and Japanese. They had been fighting in that environment for literal decades.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fair enough.

I mean, when they brought the Russians back as the villains you could really tell they had run out of ideas.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but I liked that part where he said "It's Putin time!" and then starts putin all over those guys

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

in the original script of humanity the atomic bomb was supposed to just release glitter but it malfunctioned. Dyslexic Einstein shrugged.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

None of these things are plot holes. Why is it unbelievable that Obi Wan would keep the light saber? You might not have, but that doesn’t mean Obi Wan wouldn’t. Who is Luke’s family supposed to be? Yes, Obi Wan still dresses like a Jedi when he lives as a hermit. Vader is subject to the emperor’s wishes. It’s believable that tarken is very effective and therefore the emperor sees how valuable he is and he could outrank the emperor’s useful idiot attack dog.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

See, it's not about plot holes.

"Plot holes" are a pretty useless concept anyway. Star Wars as a franchise goes so far out of its way to plug "plot holes", and it does absolutely nothing for its consistency or coherence.

Case in point, Obi Wan the TV series goes out of its way to justify the goofy, inconsistent use of "Darth" as a first name during the Death Star fight and all that did was break the hell out of suspension of disbelief. See also: the entirety of Solo.

It's about how you as a human can discern meaning. And yeah, in the original Star Wars Jedi Knights are meant to mostly just have been knights, like medieval knights, and likely not fundamentally connected to the idea of the Force. And the robes hermit look is supposed to be mostly Ben's whole deal, not a Jedi uniform, and Vader is clearly supposed to mostly be a glorified henchman.

And it's fine when you come back for Empire and a bunch of those things are no longer quite true. You shrug it off. Star Wars is "from a certain point of view: the franchise" and it's absolutely to its detriment.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe he never force chokes tarkin cause he's into it and Vader knows this

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Oh, go back and watch that scene.

Tarkin clearly just likes to watch. And he's clearly calling the shots. Vader is this close to calling him "daddy".

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Why does him having the lightsaber seem odd to you? We see him take it at the end of episode 3.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago

"What plans?"

"The plans that were delivered to you."

"He delivered me hope. Didn't you see the previous scene?"

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

My headcanon is that Vader senses the force in Leia and deep down may unconsciously realise she's his daughter because she looks like her mother, which is partly why he doesn't kill her, even if the stated reason is that they still need to get information out of her.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Vader could have revoked her diplomatic immunity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwC_IaY3BmY

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Yeah but that would have taken like, sooo much paperwork

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I thought cutting her crew members in half was the diplomatic immunity revocation process.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

The bit I really like it how it established hyperspace tracking as a thing WAAAAY before TLJ.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just like Lethal Weapon 2!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I can hear this gif

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Haven't watched Rogue One, what planet Vader blows up before going after Leia?

PS: I've always preferred Dark Forces as being the "canon" for how the plans got stolen for the Rebels

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

The base on Scarif is shot by the DS. It's more like a mega nuke than planet destruction. It's the cool beach planet with shore troopers.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Did Vader ever find out she was his kid? I haven't seen the OG movies in many years so I don't remember

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Did Vader ever find out she was his kid? I haven’t seen the OG movies in many years so I don’t remember

In RotJ, when Luke fights him on the Super Star Destroyer in front of Palpatine, doesn't Vader read his thoughts? I definitely remember Vader saying, 'Sister ....' I haven't watched the OG trilogy in years too though.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

The thing about that is that it is never explained how L&L knew they were siblings. When Leia announces to Han that Luke is her brother, it's quite out of the blue. Who told her? When? Is this just another Force hand-wave?

Star Wars was a great cinematic feat for the 70s and 80s, and a testament to the power of practical effects; however, it has always been a masterclass in hack writing, audience condescension, and hamfisted acting

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

It's been a while, but I'm pretty sure Luke and Leia had a talk about being siblings before she told Han. It was equally weird where Leia just knows, but it happened.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Yeah, you're remembering correctly.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Episode 6 I think, when Vader is talking to Luke on Endor.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

No, when they're fighting on the DS II and Luke is hiding in the shadows. He learns by sensing Luke's feelings and gives the line:

A sisterrr. You have a twin sisterrr.

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