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"However, especially given Artoo's extensive involvement in the prequels, this creates the problem of him never demonstrating any knowledge of important background that he really ought to be telling Luke about."

1.Artoo isn´t able to talk. 2. He knows how to keep secrets unlike Threepio.

"But in the prequels, the brown robes and white tunic were made into the official uniform of the Jedi Order." Yoda already wore such a tunic in Empire (interesting that Luke didn´t notice).

"In The Empire Strikes Back Obi-Wan's ghost thinks Luke is the Jedi's last hope, but Yoda notes "there is another"... who was of course revealed in Return of the Jedi to be Leia who was Luke's sister all along. But Obi-Wan does not seem to be aware that Luke even has a sister in Empire. This is because Leia was not Luke's sister when Empire was filmed"

Doubtful. If Lucas didn´t intend Leia to be his sister why would he add a scene in Empire where she feels Luke is in danger through the force?

I could swear I remember reading in an old book about Star Wars (well before the prequels) that Darth Vader got his injuries from falling into a vat of molten metal (or maybe carbonite) instead of a volcano. Can anyone confirm?

R2-D2 and Obiwan Kenobi: I don't want to start an edit war, but the notion that nothing in the prequels contradicts their introductory scene in "A New Hope" is at best Exact Words. In those scenes, beginning from Obiwan noticing R2-D2 in the cave, through their interaction at Obiwan's shack, it's clear that Obiwan had had nothing to do with R2-D2 in their past.

"I don't seem to remember ever owning a droid. Very interesting," he says. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5exh2CNNEI Later, "Now let's see if we can't figure out what you are, my little friend." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUaxXsqGeFI Those (along with the rest of their interaction) are nothing he would say or do, with their prior history. He doesn't recognize R2-D2.

Ok, I put the MCU as an example based on the fact that the SHIELD acronymn did not appear to exist in Iron Man, indicating a new organization, but as of Cap 2 the organization dates back to just after WWII. The Mighty Heptagon deleted it with this explanation:

"No one ever says anything about S.H.I.E.L.D.'s age in Iron Man, and there's never any indication that the acronym doesn't exist. Coulson probably just used the organization's full name because he was trying to be professional, and because he was introducing S.H.I.E.L.D. to a group of people who had never heard of it before."

I find this explanation extremely unsatisfying. Firstly, even if he did want to give them the full name, he would have also given them the acronymn if he had one. Furthermore, when they pointed out that it was a mouthful, rather than producing the acronymn, he said "we're working on it," indicating they were still trying to come up with a way of shortening the name.

Kate's mother didn't recognise her? I always assumed that the way she reacted she knew exactly who she was and was frightened of Kate.

Anyone else think the entire Star Wars section needs a bit of a cleanup? There seems to be quite a bit of arguing on the main page.

• Rowling had apparently not yet decided how Her Werewolves Were Different until she introduced Lupin in Prisoner Of Azkaban. The first two books contain references to werewolves that do not make much sense in light of what we later learn about them. It's stated in the first book that werewolves live in the Forbidden Forest. Um, where do they spend their time while in human form? In the second book, Gilderoy Lockhart describes himself apparently curing a werewolf, but in subsequent books it is made emphatically clear that there is no cure for lycanthropy. While Lockhart's stories are all lies, he stole them from other people and he explicitly mentions at the end that the werewolf bit was really performed by an Armenian warlock. In the Chamber of Secrets, Riddle claims Hagrid tried to raise werewolf cubs under his bed, though Rowling later said this was simply a lie.
  • It's also stated that Lupin isn't like most werewolves, and most werewolves spend time secluded away from humanity. So it actually is entirely possible for werewolves to spend all their time, both forms, in the Forbidden Forest.
  • Possibly there's some form of transfiguration that gives a werewolf at the full moon temporary human form in the physical sense only (the spell is described as "immensely complex" which might be a rare bit of truth from Lockhart and the reason people can't just use it in an emergency werewolf attack), so this means turning a raging mad wolf into a raging mad human. And the concept of werewolf cubs lead directly to Fridge Horror — perhaps some parents whose kids get bitten simply abandon them in the wild to live like animals rather than deal with the stigma and danger. Perhaps Hagrid was rescuing them, making Riddle's comment not just a passing ridicule of Hagrid's monster obsession, but something akin to expressing contempt for a white person on the Underground Railroad.
  • That's not the error. As Rowling stated when she indicated Riddle's line was a lie, werewolf cubs don't exist in her world. It seems that Lupin turned into a "fully-grown" werewolf even at the age of eleven, so apparently the age of the human victim has no impact on the physical age of the wolf.

Someone clarify...this?