All posts by Jedi Sarith LeKit

She doesn't mention either one, at least not directly. Bail Organa is mentioned when R2-D2 replays Leia's message to Obi-Wan in front of Luke.

Remember in the future not to use polls to ask factual questions.

Where is the flag on the right actually from? No results for that artist name or the flag on the wiki as far as I've searched.

Come on, it's really lazy to put up half a post and say you'll just edit in the rest later. This is what the notes app on your phone is for. No reason you can't just save a draft to finish writing in your free time, because otherwise there's no use in convincing people here with an argument you didn't think all the way through.

It just looks like a mid-action shot of Kylo evading a spurt of lava or something. Wouldn't read into it much further since it's a variant cover and the ghosts alone suggest that it's not a literal depiction of what's happening. The art in the series itself so far has been really great.

Yeah, starting to get off-topic here. "Clanker" is only used as a slur within Star Wars itself, and arguably it wasn't even derogatory in its original context of wartime slang, although it certainly became so as time went on.

"Toaster" is the correct word for describing garbage AI in real life, just for the record. Get that one into wider circulation.

The world may never know.

If anyone likes crossword puzzles, the Los Angeles Times publishes its daily ones online for free, and every so often the name of a Star Wars character will pop up. This was from a few days ago.

Pretty much speaks for itself, and yes, it's real.

Nobody in that meeting with Krennic had any idea. He simply references the Empire's ongoing "energy initiative" and how it'll "transform the galactic economy and solidify Imperial authority," and that's a satisfying enough explanation for everyone else in the room. They were convened to stage the takeover of Ghorman and didn't need to think about it much further. Reactors can power anything, from ships to factories to entire cities. The idea of weaponizing them isn't new or even notable enough for anyone who did suspect ulterior motives. If we hadn't seen Rogue One, we wouldn't know the truth at that point either.

Partagaz died, though. You did catch that, right? He was never supposed to know about the Death Star before it was finished. Even Yularen had only recently been told about it, and the only reason Partagaz was looped in was because Lonni leaked the files Dedra had accidentally obtained. He was going to be arrested for failing to fill such a severe breach under his own command, but shot himself instead.

The empty seat was indeed for Krennic. There's a short story in From a Certain Point of View that details Tarkin's thoughts about it, but even without the explicit confirmation, we know that Tarkin would never have put himself in a position where he'd need to swipe someone else's seat. He always had one, since Krennic answered to him after all.

Why would you not wait until finishing the film to write a proper review? The "plot holes" you described aren't issues at all, and they wouldn't be plot holes even if they were issues. The movie explains each one, and it's better if you finish watching it before reading further here.

• Rey isn't a pilot. She tells Finn that she's used flight simulators before, and obviously she knows enough about starships after taking so many apart, but she still nearly crashes the Falcon multiple times during the escape from Jakku.

• The map wasn't made to find Luke. It already existed and just pointed to the place everyone thought Luke went. Kylo Ren tells Rey that the First Order recovered its piece of the map from the Imperial Archives.

• Rey also says she thought Luke Skywalker was a myth. She's lived her whole life isolated on Jakku, and since she works with junk dealers, the only relevant history she'd have heard about Han Solo would be his reputation as a smuggler.

• Kylo Ren is a wannabe Darth Vader. Up to you whether you like it or not, but it is intentional. He does wear a cloak throughout the next two films, though.

It's just poor screenshot quality there. Palpatine's undead design is actually pretty cool, and if you look closely you'll see that he doesn't have any lightning scars, since his cloned body is a rotten form of how he originally looked. Always thought that was a great detail, and his final design once he fully revives himself is his best ever.

It's not that simple, though. "Maybe we should use these ships that are now visually associated with and manufactured by our enemies!" isn't as smart as it sounds.

The Empire didn't own the X-wing model, and it's quite likely that their entire fighter corps was manufactured under an exclusivity contract with Sienar Fleet Systems thereafter. This was not a decision that anyone could simply reverse.

Also, think of how severe of a propaganda loss the Empire would incur by commissioning its own X-wings. Not only would that appear to legitimatize the Rebel Alliance as an enemy force, but it would undo nearly two decades of work to establish the Empire's own impression of a stable, unwavering military infrastructure. Someone would've had to admit they made a mistake.

Even without its political connotations, the X-wing was strategically antithetical to the Empire's entire military doctrine. Not only would it take far more time and resources to train TIE pilots to fly more advanced starfighters, but they would need to be instilled with some sense of self-preservation in order to prevent more expensive military assets from being destroyed. Teaching Imperial pilots to value their own lives while giving them shielded, hyperspace-capable ships would challenge the supremacy of the Imperial hierarchy and simply enable more of them to defect or desert.

The truth is that nobody in the Empire cared about losing TIE fighters enough to consider using another ship in the first place, let alone after so many years without any legitimate military opponents. The Rebel Alliance formed too late for the Empire to be in a position to meaningfully adapt, especially as they still didn't think it was necessary.

For what it's worth, though, the Empire did invest more resources into combatting Alliance starfighters as time went on. That's why the TIE Defender was built and why TIE interceptors became the eventual new standard. It just wasn't enough to fix the system itself, since the Empire's predominant military philosophy remained the same.

Balance in the Force is between the light and dark sides. The reason it's achieved by focusing solely on the light side is because the dark side is essentially already there. It's infectious and spreads easily, and it needs to be resisted with effort in order to attain a spiritual sense of peace, whether for one person or for the whole galaxy.

@GuardianofPeaceandChickens, I threw this in General since you're looking for more specific answers, and that way it's easier to discuss what people get wrong about Star Wars, what the actual truth is, and how to best catch and correct people about it.

In your case, I think it's more accurate to call the "Disney bad" sentiment a bias than a misconception. The actual idea that people get wrong is about the influence Disney has over Star Wars storytelling, which is pretty much zero. "Disney writers" don't exist, yet the fact that so many people online talk about them is a sign that too few people know how Star Wars stories are actually produced.

To answer the prompt story-wise, though, one big mistake people make is thinking that Luke actually tries to kill Ben in his sleep. He doesn't, obviously, but because the audience is shown Ben's point of view first, they go into Luke's point of view already expecting him to draw his lightsaber, even though Luke himself would never be thinking of such a thing. If you watch Luke's flashback by itself, you can see more clearly that he's just worried about Ben, looks into his mind to see what's going on with him, and instead sees a vision of him as a murderer and instinctively draws his saber before snapping out of it.

Fanaticism is the defining trait that sets stormtroopers apart from other enlisted Imperial soldiers. It's why they're the "elite" troops, because they're the most willing to throw themselves into battle for the Empire—and a whole bunch of Thrawn's troops do exactly that to ensure his escape, with the full knowledge that they're going to die and be resurrected by witch magic.

Admiration would be felt more among peers, not subordinates. The average stormtrooper is just trained to take orders and has no good perspective on what makes an effective commanding officer, especially after nearly a decade in exile. There's not much choice for them but to commit fully to the idea of Thrawn for their survival, and rationality doesn't really play a part at that point.