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[[WMG: The Main/{{Transformers}} exist in the Star Wars universe.]]

[[WMG:Luke is 'still' on Tantooine, hallucinating after seeing his parent's corpses.]]
The poor guy sees the two people who raised him as crispy fried corpses and is 'still' kneeling in the sand, having a highly complicated revenge fantasy against the Empire. Artificial hand? A bug bit it. His love interest turning out to be his sister? Not all hallucinations make sense. Would explain why so much of Tantooine, a stupid backwater planet, affects the course of galactic history. His old friend shows up at the Rebellion. The Death Star trench run resembles some old flying he used to do. Flying around having adventures with the two droids his family bought. Solo and Chewbacca? Some guys he saw at Toshi Station. And of course, Episode 6, where they go -back- to Tantooine. He must have run out of fantasy material for his hallucinations.

Okay, so the Sith got their revenge on the Jedi - Order 66, a government takeover, the Order destroyed or on the run, and they used up every last bit of good publicity they ever had with the public between the slave army and the baby-snatching. However, they have they have two of their top masters, a pair of twins with a Force potential of "yes," and a mother that's too dead to raise any objection.

* The Jedi are Presbyterian, of course. How else would you explain Anakin [[TranslationTrainWreck getting made by the Presbyterian Church]]?

In ''The Phantom Menace'', when Anakin leaves his mother, he says something along the lines of "I'll come back some day and free the slaves." Make that his primary goal throughout the series instead of his love for Padme. When he leaves Tatooine, instead of finding a noble republic decaying under its vastness and slowly being taken over from within, he finds a society that is just as dangerous and oppressive as the one he left behind. Instead of a real republic, make it some kind of twisted fusion of a feudal government and alliance for mutual security; it has been shown in the movies that some form of earth-like aristocracy is present across multiple systems: Padme is a queen, Leah is a princess, and while Tatooine is not part of the Republic, don't tell me that the Hutt crime lords don't give off a dictator vibes. While the Jedi try to keep the peace and bring some semblance of justice to the people inside the bounds of the law, they are spread too thin. Trying to change it for the better from within, Anakin ends up getting in too deep, and Palpatine promises that with his guidance, he can change the system and leads him down the path of the dark side. When Obi-Wan confronts and is able to defeat him, Anakin realizes that he has been controlled and manipulated all along becomes a broken man, giving in to the dark side and truly becoming Darth Vader, unable to liberate the people, his friends, his family, or even himself. Palpatine has the Jedi assassinated one by one, they're brutal deaths inspiring some of the people they helped to form a rebellion in their honor. Age Anakin up a few years, to around sixteenish, so that he can start the relationship with Luke and Leah's mother immediately instead of waiting for ten years.

* Or [[IncrediblyLamePun Wookieepedia]].

[[IdiotPlot I think this one speaks for itself.]]

* Because they were both suffering from Genetic Sexual Attraction Disorder. Read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_sexual_attraction

[[WMG: Protocol droids only see out of one eye, but are given two to avoid the UncannyValley]]

*** Expanding on the above two statements: there will be no "final cut" of ''Star Wars'' until all the prequel actors who played characters originally from the original trilogy (Ewan [=McGregor=], Hayden Christensen, whoever played Tarkin in ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', etc.) are old enough to play the older incarnations of their characters. Then Lucas will completely replace Alec Guinness, Sebastian Shaw, Peter Cushing and others with the prequel actors (using redubbing, UncannyValley CGI face replacement and similar techniques) in order to tie both trilogies together better. I'm sure he's having fantasies about it right now.

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* Well, with the existence of [[Series:TheMandalorian Baby Yoda/Grogu]] who’s said to be 50 years old this can pretty conclusively be {{Jossed}}.

* Well, with the existence of [[Series:TheMandalorian “Baby Yoda”]] who’s said to be 50 years old this can pretty conclusively be {{Jossed}}.

[[WordOfGod Lucas explicitly said that the Dark Side had to be destroyed to ensure balance]], [[FridgeBrilliance which makes sense]] considering Taoist philosophy usually defines ''imbalance'' as evil. However, there'd still have to be some duality for Anakin to achieve balance. The Jedi's teachings of balance/harmony with the Force ultimately amount balancing out the passion of emotion with logic and a certain attachment(as Anakin pointed out, Jedi can't date but they ''can'' love). The Sith had to be removed because, along with being power-hungry evil maniacs who just wanted the Force to subjugate, they were far too passionate(note how [[ThePowerOfHate hate]] is one of the ''most'' passionate and primal emotions). On the flip side, the Jedi had become more stoic and passionless in years, tipping the balance in the other scale. What they probably ''intended'' for Anakin was to both deal with the Sith and bring some life back into the Jedi. Anakin fufilled the prophecy by playing both sides in his life-a brash and impulsive Jedi Knight who [[FaceHeelTurn fell to the Dark Side]] due to Palpatine [[ThePowerOfLove playing with his love for Padme]], and served the Dark Side of the Force with as the iconic LawfulEvil apprentice with his rage [[TranquilFury focused into a logical yet monstrous simmer.]] Analysis on Palpatine show that, fittingly for the Franchise/StarWars equivalent of Satan, he's an example of this "balance" inverted into something opposing it: he shows extreme passion with his [[ThePowerOfHate raw hatred]](or, to be more accurate, boundless contempt and antipathy) and [[AmbitionIsEvil galaxy-spanning desire]], but to fulfil these desires he uses such emotional control he can [[MagnificentBastard effortlessy keep a calm head while manipulating every side]], using deductive reasoning and logic to conquer all.

Because think about it: what did the Dark and Light sides of the Force seem to embody the most? Not [[BlackAndWhiteMorality good and evil]], but ''emotion and stoicism.'' A balance between the two would require either using neither, or using each in a balanced manner. This is why Anakin exists: the Force was irritated that its users were on two ends of the spectrum, so decided to balance this out by making the Sith more stable, the Jedi more passionate or just creating a new order with both. Anakin represents this: As a Jedi, he's ChaoticGood/ChaoticNeutral to balance the Old Jedi's LawfulGood/LawfulNeutral tendencies. As a Sith, he's LawfulEvil to balance the Sith's ChaoticEvil nature. Just check out the New Jedi founded by Luke: still concerned with not letting one's passions rule you, but they're far more understanding about emotions, and allow attachments. ''This'' is what balance of the force was alluding to.

His name should properly be written 0b1-kn0b. This is why he doesn't ever own a droid: he considers it slavery. (Technically, he's a cyborg: living flesh outside, droid on the inside, like a Terminator T-101. That explains the aging.) And don't worry about the midi-chlorians: they're simply a bedtime story told to young, impressionable Jedis. (All we ever see on screen is Qui-Gon talking about them, and a picture that could be of just about anything microscopic.)

** The whole pattern is OlderThanYouThink. Since Star Wars is explicitly based on both UsefulNotes/TheRomanEmpire and Creator/IsaacAsimov's Roman Empire [[RecycledInSpace in SPACE]], how can ''avoid'' being a comment on imperialism and the imperializing of a Republic? Why limit it to the present-day U.S., when it's a recurring theme throughout human history?

[[WMG: The StarWars universe is [[VideoGame/HalfLife1 Xen]] from the past.]]

[[WordOfGod Lucas explicitly said that the Dark Side had to be destroyed to ensure balance]], [[FridgeBrilliance which makes sense]] considering Taoist philosophy usually defines ''imbalance'' as evil. However, there'd still have to be some duality for Anakin to achieve balance. The Jedi's teachings of balance/harmony with the Force ultimately amount balancing out the passion of emotion with logic and a certain attachment(as Anakin pointed out, Jedi can't date but they ''can'' love). The Sith had to be removed because, along with being power-hungry evil maniacs who just wanted the Force to subjugate, they were far too passionate(note how [[ThePowerOfHate hate]] is one of the ''most'' passionate and primal emotions). On the flip side, the Jedi had become more stoic and passionless in years, tipping the balance in the other scale. What they probably ''intended'' for Anakin was to both deal with the Sith and bring some life back into the Jedi. Anakin fufilled the prophecy by playing both sides in his life-a brash and impulsive Jedi Knight who [[FaceHeelTurn fell to the Dark Side]] due to Palpatine [[ThePowerOfLove playing with his love for Padme]], and served the Dark Side of the Force with as the iconic LawfulEvil apprentice with his rage [[TranquilFury focused into a logical yet monstrous simmer.]] Analysis on Palpatine show that, fittingly for the StarWar equivalent of Satan, he's an example of this "balance" inverted into something opposing it: he shows extreme passion with his [[ThePowerOfHate raw hatred]](or, to be more accurate, boundless contempt and antipathy) and [[AmbitionIsEvil galaxy-spanning desire]], but to fulfil these desires he uses such emotional control he can [[MagnificentBastard effortlessy keep a calm head while manipulating every side]], using deductive reasoning and logic to conquer all.

* Maybe he's swearing in the StarWars equivalent of Morse Code.

StarWars:

* There could be an infinite number of universes that are exactly the same as the StarWars, except our freakish exception.

* Sooooo...StarWars and Series/RedDwarf take place in the same universe?

** Besides, why would they go to Earth? It's in a galaxy far, far away and extra-galactic travel is inconvenient at best. And why would they go there? When the StarWars galaxy would be having its adventures and came to Earth, they'd either have to deal with real bows-and-arrows, or Atlantis.

*** Expanding on the above two statements: there will be no "final cut" of ''StarWars'' until all the prequel actors who played characters originally from the original trilogy (Ewan [=McGregor=], Hayden Christensen, whoever played Tarkin in ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', etc.) are old enough to play the older incarnations of their characters. Then Lucas will completely replace Alec Guinness, Sebastian Shaw, Peter Cushing and others with the prequel actors (using redubbing, UncannyValley CGI face replacement and similar techniques) in order to tie both trilogies together better. I'm sure he's having fantasies about it right now.

* Jossed: Lucas has sold StarWars to Disney, and I think they're smart enough to not let his senility muck it up.

Yoda's backstory and species is completely unknown, and George Lucas has done whatever it takes to keep it secret. Why? Well, what if it serves as the final part of his story? Originally Lucas wanted sequels rather than prequels, and Yoda's history would've played an important part. Even now, he keeps them hidden in his personal vault for when the story of StarWars reaches its GrandFinale.

[[WMG: The StarWars Movies are history files recorded and edited together by R2-D2.]]