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** He also used a lot more of its energy dueling Vader twice in ''Series/ObiWanKenobi''. Frankly, it's almost amazing that it lasted as long as it did.
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* Vader seems unusually furious in the opening sequence, snapping orders at his men where usually he's calm and composed. This makes far more sense in light of ''Film/RogueOne'': Vader's absolutely livid because he came within an inch of stopping the Death Star plans escaping, literally ''saw'' the Tantive IV fly out of his reach, and the crew still have the nerve to try and bullshit him about it being a consular ship on a diplomatic mission.
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* Vader seems unusually furious in the opening sequence, snapping orders at his men where usually he's calm and composed. This makes far more sense in light of ''Film/RogueOne'': Vader's absolutely livid because he came within an inch of stopping the Death Star plans escaping, escaping at Scarif, literally ''saw'' the Tantive IV fly out of his reach, and the crew still have the nerve to try and bullshit him about it being a consular ship on a diplomatic mission.
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** This also explains why Vader strangles Captain Antilles by hand, rather than use his more common Force Choke method or threaten him with a lit lightsaber to the throat, the Dark Lord is so angry and frustrated, he wants to ''feel'' the rebel officer's dying breaths between his mechanical fingers.
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* It always seemed strange to me that the cantina is so busy so early in the morning... then it occurred to me. Mos Eisley is a spaceport, making the cantina the Star Wars equivalent of an airport bar with patrons from lots of different timezones. It's always five o' clock somewhere!
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* It always seemed strange to me may seem strange that the cantina is so busy so early in the morning... then it occurred to me. morning, but if you think about it, Mos Eisley is a spaceport, making the cantina the Star Wars equivalent of an airport bar with patrons from lots of different timezones. It's always five o' clock somewhere!
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** Yularen served under Anakin in the Clone Wars; he may have known who Vader really was and willingly followed his old friend, believing he was betrayed and nearly murdered by the Jedi. Also, Yularen is career military, and not a clone; he chose service. He's also an officer, not a conscript like Finn or a poor kid looking for a pay-check like Han, and career military officers tend to be deeply right wing and appreciative of the authoritarian structures they live with (not always, granted). ''Andor'' gives a realistic portrayal of the grinding, petty, bureaucratized cruelty of the Empire, where normal, everyday people no longer really think about the harm they're inflicting. It also shows compartmentalization, where the Empire's atrocities are covered up and news has difficulty spreading. Couple that with Palpatine's gradual, decades-long destruction of the Republics democratic structure, and it would be easy for Yularen, portrayed in ''Clone Wars'' as a decent man who puts up with Anakin's shenanigans because they get results to be an eager servant of a fascist emperor, justifying it as necessary for peace and order in a dangerously unstable galaxy. That said, there were a lot of good, kind, orderly Nazis. Historians have a word for them: Nazis. Good intentions don't spare you from the necessity of stopping something like the Empire.
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** The last season of ''The Clone Wars'' established that spice ''can'' be used as medicine, meaning it might be more of "Your father tried to the right thing, but got killed by drug dealers stealing his morphine shipment".
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** We learn from ''Series/ObiWanKenobi'' that Owen is willing to let Obi-Wan be part of Luke's life, but he doesn't want the boy trained to follow in his father's footsteps. He and Beru wanted children but couldn't, so Luke is precious to him and he wants his nephew to stay safe on the farm, not fly off to fight monsters in space.
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** The no longer canon ''Knights of the Old Republic'' games, some elements of which have been re-canonized, state that most people don't even realize the Sith and the Jedi are wildly different. They just think they're two sects of some weird cult that for some reason has a lot of political power. Han's from the shipyards on Corellia, not one of the elites who would have had access to the Jedi.
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** It could also be that AMillionIsAStatistic is in play, and as said above, will deal with her own grief, which is currently too big to comprehend, later on when she has a chance to relax.
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** Han never said he didn't believe in the Force. He said he doesn't believe in a force that controls everything. He is saying he doesn't believe in predetermination.
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** Han never said he didn't believe in the Force. He said he doesn't believe in a force that controls everything. He is saying he doesn't believe in predetermination. And actually, he may be right--the Force doesn't seem to "control people's destinies," just gives them a nudge.
** Given that the Force is never seen to compel anyone to do anything in any media (short of actual directed mind tricks), it's doubtful. That being said, the Force may have been giving him a nudge.
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*** As far as anyone's concerned the destruction of the Death Star was instantaneous. Yarulan would likely have never known what hit him before being evaporated in the blink of an eye. Most of those onboard would have died as quickly, too. It's still a monumental disaster of a death toll but it could have been worse for everyone involved so...Fridge Relief?
*** YMMV, though, since Yularen is willingly serving the Empire despite having witnessed the genocide of the Jedi and God knows how many other atrocities. He's no conscripted stormtrooper or stooge, either; he's high-ranking enough to know what's going on in the Empire and to have power to make things better if he wanted to.
*** YMMV, though, since Yularen is willingly serving the Empire despite having witnessed the genocide of the Jedi and God knows how many other atrocities. He's no conscripted stormtrooper or stooge, either; he's high-ranking enough to know what's going on in the Empire and to have power to make things better if he wanted to.
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*** As far as anyone's concerned the destruction of the Death Star was instantaneous. Yarulan Yularen would likely have never known what hit him before being evaporated in the blink of an eye. Most of those onboard would have died as quickly, too. It's still a monumental disaster of a death toll but it could have been worse for everyone involved so...Fridge Relief?
*** YMMV, though, since Yularen is willingly serving the Empire despite having witnessed the genocide of the Jedi and God knows how many other atrocities. He's no conscripted stormtrooper or stooge, either; he's high-ranking enough to know what's going on in the Empire and to possibly have power to make things better if he wantedto.to. And if not, he could've defected to the Rebellion and done a lot of good there with his knowledge of the Imperial military and tactical expertise--as quite a few high-ranking Imperials, like Crix Madine, actually did.
*** YMMV, though, since Yularen is willingly serving the Empire despite having witnessed the genocide of the Jedi and God knows how many other atrocities. He's no conscripted stormtrooper or stooge, either; he's high-ranking enough to know what's going on in the Empire and to possibly have power to make things better if he wanted
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** According to ''Legends,'' the answer is pretty much all the time, unless you're Thrawn.
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*** As far as anyone's concerned the destruction of the Death Star was instantaneous. Yarulan would likely have never known what hit him before being evaporated in the blink of an eye. Most of those onboard would have died as quickly, too. It's still a monumental disaster of a death toll but it could have been worse for everyone involved so...Fridge Relief?
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* Tarkin refusing to escape with his personal shuttle becomes a lot less arrogant and a lot more logical once you think about the possible results of the battle. If he stays and the Death Star succeeds, he will have earned credit for destroying the Rebel stronghold and once again proven the Emperor's trust in him. If he flees and the Death Star succeeds, he will appear cowardly and lose the favor of the Emperor and the respect of the other commanders. If he flees and the Death Star is destroyed, he will again appear cowardly, but this time also responsible for losing the Death Star, something the Emperor would not take lightly. Finally, if he stays and the Death Star is destroyed, he will not only escape a gruesome punishment by the Emperor, but also save face by having stayed on his post, earning a place in the Empire's possible history book. The only true option at any time for him was to stay.
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* Tarkin refusing to escape with his personal shuttle becomes a lot less arrogant and a lot more logical once you think about the possible results of the battle. If he stays and the Death Star succeeds, he will have earned credit for destroying the Rebel stronghold and once again proven the Emperor's trust in him. If he flees and the Death Star succeeds, he will appear cowardly and lose the favor of the Emperor and the respect of the other commanders. If he flees and the Death Star is destroyed, he will again appear cowardly, but this time also responsible for losing the Death Star, something the Emperor would not take lightly. Finally, if he stays and the Death Star is destroyed, he will not only escape a gruesome punishment by the Emperor, Emperor (most likely he died before he even knew what was happening), but also save face by having stayed on his post, earning a place in the Empire's possible history book. The only true option at any time for him was to stay.
** It's also worth remembering that, yes, he remembers the establishment of the Empire--from when he was about five years old. While he may have heard of Jedi prior to that, it wouldn't have registered much anyway. Especially since there were no major battles on Corellia for Jedi to be involved in. Unless he met Nejaa Halcyon as an infant or something, there would've been no reason for him to know anything about Jedi before he grew up and started learning Imperial propaganda.
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** All it takes to resist a mind probe is a very strong will. Leia has that in spades, as shown in the Obi-Wan Kenobi miniseries. Even as a ten-year-old under the threat of torture that clearly terrified her, she refused to tell Third Sister what she knew. As a ten-year-old, she had a far stronger will than anyone you’re ever going to meet. For her nineteen-year-old self, resisting the mind probe is literally child’s play. If it took a Force-sensitive to resist the mind probe, Vader would quickly have realized who he was dealing with.
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** All it takes to resist a mind probe is a very strong will. Leia has that in spades, as shown in the Obi-Wan Kenobi miniseries.spades. Even as a ten-year-old under the threat of torture that clearly terrified her, she refused to tell Third Sister what she knew. As a ten-year-old, she had a far stronger will than anyone you’re ever going to meet. For her nineteen-year-old self, resisting the mind probe is literally child’s play. If it took a Force-sensitive to resist the mind probe, Vader would quickly have realized who he was dealing with. That being said, it's not at all implausible that her latent Force powers were of help.
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** All it takes to resist a mind probe is a very strong will. Leia has that in spades, as shown in the Obi-Wan Kenobi miniseries. Even as a ten-year-old under the threat of torture that clearly terrified her, she refused to tell Third Sister what she knew. As a ten-year-old, she had a far stronger will than anyone you’re ever going to meet. For her nineteen-year-old self, resisting the mind probe is literally child’s play. If it took a Force-sensitive to resist the mind probe, Vader would quickly have realized who he was dealing with.
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*** Kenobi has a similar objective: he doesn’t care whether he wins or loses, he just wants to make sure the duel lasts long enough to cover his friends’ escape.
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* When the star destroyer's gunner is told not to shoot the droids' escape pod, his line is "There goes another one." ''Another'' one. Meaning some poor bastard had tried to escape just before and was blasted into stardust.
** Honestly it would be counter-intuitive to blast any of the pods into stardust. It's made pretty clear that the entire point of boarding the Tantive IV is so they can confirm they've contained the leaked plans, and failing that recover the specific data that was stolen so they can determine whether the rebels actually found intel they can exploit. If they fail to get any confirmation that the Death Star plans haven't been passed on to anyone else, AND they fail to recover the plans themselves, then boarding the Tantive IV would've been a waste of the Empire's time. Fridge Horror still applies since that means that anyone who did try to escape probably didn't make it far, likely either snatched up before they could land or simply captured once they hit Tatooine, ending up in front of a firing squad either way.
* Han and Luke have to blast their way past a handful of TIE Fighters to escape the Death Star. However it later becomes clear that Tarkin and Vader let the Millennium Falcon escape with minimum resistance so they could find the rebel base. That means that they sent a couple of poor schmucks out after the Falcon knowing they'd probably get shot down, and even if they didn't, they'd at least have destroyed all trace of the plans and destroyed any hope of the rebels destroying the Death Star - a win-win for them, but it makes you wonder exactly how often they sacrifice pilots for a tactical gain.
** TruthInTelevision. Sacrificing a few troops here and there to achieve a greater objective is not an uncommon military strategy.
** Honestly it would be counter-intuitive to blast any of the pods into stardust. It's made pretty clear that the entire point of boarding the Tantive IV is so they can confirm they've contained the leaked plans, and failing that recover the specific data that was stolen so they can determine whether the rebels actually found intel they can exploit. If they fail to get any confirmation that the Death Star plans haven't been passed on to anyone else, AND they fail to recover the plans themselves, then boarding the Tantive IV would've been a waste of the Empire's time. Fridge Horror still applies since that means that anyone who did try to escape probably didn't make it far, likely either snatched up before they could land or simply captured once they hit Tatooine, ending up in front of a firing squad either way.
* Han and Luke have to blast their way past a handful of TIE Fighters to escape the Death Star. However it later becomes clear that Tarkin and Vader let the Millennium Falcon escape with minimum resistance so they could find the rebel base. That means that they sent a couple of poor schmucks out after the Falcon knowing they'd probably get shot down, and even if they didn't, they'd at least have destroyed all trace of the plans and destroyed any hope of the rebels destroying the Death Star - a win-win for them, but it makes you wonder exactly how often they sacrifice pilots for a tactical gain.
** TruthInTelevision. Sacrificing a few troops here and there to achieve a greater objective is not an uncommon military strategy.
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** Alderaan is also pacifistic almost to a fault. Leia, an Alderaanian, having a sporting blaster for target shooting would be unusual. . . but owning a blaster designed solely to be lethal would be highly suspicious.
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** Website/SFDebris notes in his review that there were originally four Trench Runs, one by Gold Leader, one by Red Leader, two by Luke, one with the computer and one without. Luke's with the computer obviously failed. It was edited down to a total of three because it just got excessive, but also would have shown for a fact that the "glaring weakness" was, in fact, ''impossible'' to exploit without the Force.
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** It's also been theorized it's kind of a test. If Han mixes up time and distance, and they don't call him out on it, he knows he's dealing with two guys who don't know much about space travel and he can bilk them. If they do, he knows they know what's up, and he can talk up some of his actually impressive points, perhaps to score more money.
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** He could have seen the vaporators behind Owen, recognized them, and known they were similar to something he'd worked with before. Which means Threepio basically pulled off a SherlockScan.
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* Fridge Heartwarming: There is a brief argument on Yavin when Chewie wants to help the Rebels while Han wants to cut and run. Presumably, after they leave, the argument continues and Chewie brings Han around to his point of view. He may seem like a big hairy brute who’s only there to provide muscle, but in the end his biggest contributions to the cause are his moral sensibilities and his persuasive words.
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** This actually comes up in ''Series/TheMandalorian'' courtesy of an Imperial shuttle pilot who's still pissed about the destruction of the Death Star -- who then sabotages his own argument by mocking Cara Dune about the earlier destruction of her homeworld Alderaan, and gets a plasma bullet between the eyes.
