Hey, if you go by CinemaSins' interpretation, the hand-chopping-off thing is George Lucas' private fetish, so there's no need for the new films to go there.
edited 4th Jan '16 1:20:29 PM by Fighteer
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Rebels has Ezra get scarred on the face by a lightsaber at the end of the first season. That must be the new in thing.
edited 4th Jan '16 1:23:51 PM by TheAirman
PSN ID: FateSeraph | Switch friendcode: SW-0145-8835-0610 Congratulations! She/TheyI'm not sure where the interpretation in this thread came from that the New Republic was established by Imperials or w/e.
Because the New Republic was established by the former Rebel Alliance.
@Tompa Dompa: How about no??? Fucking hell. Incest isn't funny.
edited 4th Jan '16 1:24:19 PM by higherbrainpattern
About Luke being famous and Vader's son: I mean.
In the Clone Wars cartoon, it seemed like Anakin was kinda famous?
Like. Popular, even. A war hero.
He was good looking and courageous and successful a fair amount so. Like. Common sense would be that any propaganda or publicity campaign for the war would use Anakin. A fair bit.
It's not like his surname was hidden either.
And Luke openly has the last name "Skywalker" and also sorta became a Jedi and was a pretty good pilot.
And he's from Tatooine, and I'm not sure Anakin being from Tatooine would be a "secret" per se.
I'm not sure Anakin being Vader would be public knowledge though.
Like. Ben seems to know. I dunno whether it's public knowledge though either.
I don't think Anakin being Vader is public knowledge. To be honest, if it were ever publicly revealed, most in the Galaxy would probably write it off as a conspiracy theory, seeing as Anakin and Vader's reputations are diametrically different.
"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."Also, this is more my speculation than anything implied (since we don't know much if anything about the New Republic) but I think just because the First Order (well, really Ren/Ben) reveres Vader doesn't mean that the New Republic has a correspondingly intense loathing for him.
I mean the First Order are a bunch of crazy extremists.
I actually would think it was public knowledge that Anakin and Vader were the same. In particular, one part of the "Legend of Luke" would be redeeming his father from the Dark Side.
edited 4th Jan '16 1:29:07 PM by Hodor2
I think Ren's path is going to be to ditch the Darth Vader Clone thing, which means no mask.
Luke was able to avoid ever finding out about Vader until Vader himself told him, so I don't think it's public knowledge. If it were, I think somebody in the Rebel Alliance would have gone, "Hey, Darth Vader's name is Anakin Skywalker and your last name is Skywalker. Is there any relation there?" during their time on Hoth.
I mean, the possibility that Luke might be blood-related to Darth Vader carries very serious security risks for the Rebel Alliance employing him. It would have come up.
edited 4th Jan '16 1:42:40 PM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I think you mean billions. "Trillions" is a big number for any planet resembling Earth. Or is that the official pop of Coruscant or something? More Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale...
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"![]()
In the old continuity Coruscant
as a city planet clocked in with a population of over 1 trillion.
edited 4th Jan '16 1:51:01 PM by blauregen
All I know is, my gut says maybe.It also had no plant life or water, it was just a solid mass of city, buildings thousands of feet tall.
My various fanfics.Even Luke's direct relatives weren't Skywalkers. Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru's last name is Lars. Not only was Luke's surname left intact when he was put into hiding during infancy, they didn't even bother changing it to that of the family adopting him. He was the only Skywalker on the plantation.
Leia got to be Leia Organa. Luke should have been Luke Lars but I guess Owen and Obi-Wan decided it was really important that he be identifiable as a Skywalker.
edited 4th Jan '16 1:53:37 PM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Anyway, I think it's already been shown how Coruscant is a thermodynamic impossibility.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

Legally, the rights of clones is a sticky issue, about on par with the rights of AI.
Naturally, the Clone Wars pit both of them against each other on behalf of their masters.
edited 4th Jan '16 1:16:43 PM by TobiasDrake
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