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Star Wars Continuity, or lack thereof

May 112011

We recently watched the original three Star Wars movies and there are one or two things that they either changed for the remastered version or just forgot about when they went back and made episodes I, II, and III.

At the end of Return of the Jedi, Luke turns and sees Anikan Skywalker, Obi Wan, and Yoda watching the celebration. When this movie was first shown in the seventies, Anikan, in that scene, was an old man. In the remastered version, Anikan has been replaced with a much younger actor, roughly the same age a Luke.

In Episodes I – III, it’s clear that Obi Wan was trained by Qui Gon, but in the original movies, Obi Wan says that Yoda trained him. I guess that in that reality, Qui Gon was actually designing web pages for laces like http://www.wholesaleinsurance.net and not training Jedi at all.

Blind Stormtroopers?

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May 052011

Recently we had an opportunity to re-watch Star Wars IV A New Hope and noticed what we consider to be a gigantic plot hole.

In the scene where Han and Luke are rescuing Princess Leah from Darth Vader’s ship, the three are, at one point, trapped in a dead end with Stormtroopers closing in on them. Leah takes a blaster and shoots a hole in a wall which leads down to a trash compactor.

How, exactly, does Leah know that there’s a trash dump behind that panel and it isn’t just some sort of cable cover hiding a bunch of electrical wiring that’s going to fry them all when it gets blasted?

Furthermore, while at least two of them make the comment after entering the trash compactor that it won’t take the stormtroopers long to figure out where they went, why is it that they never did? Seriously, there’s a dead end corridore with a hole in the wall. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figurre out where they went, yet the stormtroopers never did discover the trio’s hiding place. What’s up with that?

Right Idea, Too Late.

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Mar 222011

Remember in the first Star Wars movie, Princess Leah had that hairstyle that involved braids wrapped into little circles that hung right over her ears? I was going to post a picture here with a caption talking about her stylish looking portable home audio speakers, but then it dawned on me that Mel Brooks already beat me to that one in Spaceballs.

Oh well. May the Schwartz be with you.

The Star Wars Bow TIE Tuxedo Shirt

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Feb 082011

I happened across a shirt that any true Star Wars fan will want.

From a distance, it looks like any one of a thousand other t-shirts that has a tuxedo printed on the front of it.

The details become a little more interesting when you examine the shirt from a little closer. The “bow tie” is actually an imperial TIE fighter from Star Wars, and the rest of the design is the tunnel in the Death Star that Luke Skywalker had to fly into in order to destroy the giant weapon.

Any hardcore Star Wars fan would be proud to wear this to a wedding or other formal occasion.