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[-] cattywampas@lemmy.world 139 points 1 week ago

I hate to defend bad writing, and I hate even more when fiction feels the need to retroactively try to explain things that don't need it, but here goes anyway.

In the novel Kenobi the Tatooine locals find out his last name and immediately start wondering if he's related to any of the other Kenobis they know in the area. So they do at least give a few paragraphs to pointing out that it's a somewhat common last name.

Then there's "Skywalker," where fans say oh it's a common last name that's why no one batted an eye at it. But I just assume that Luke went by Luke Lars up until the events of ANH.

There's probably something in canon that contradicts that, and the Kenobi novel is no longer canon either, but you know what? It's all made up and I don't care, I just picture it like I want to.

[-] napoleonsdumbcousin@feddit.org 123 points 1 week ago

The post assumes that he is even registered. Kenobi is hiding on a backwater desert planet ruled by a crime syndicate. Unless there is some detail in the movies I forgot, I think it is reasonable to assume that he might not even appear in any imperial registry.

[-] OwOarchist@pawb.social 41 points 1 week ago

Do you mean to imply that Kenobi might not have been paying property taxes!?!?

[-] maturelemontree@lemmy.zip 24 points 1 week ago

He was the villain all along

[-] fartographer@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

The real victims were the billions of people paying for Ben's free lunch

[-] tazeycrazy@feddit.uk 10 points 1 week ago

Where was Yodas social security checks being picked up?

[-] FrChazzz@lemmus.org 6 points 1 week ago

"PO Box on Dantooine have I. Wear baseball cap and sunglasses when checking it, I do."

[-] bless@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago

Give onto the Emperor what is the Emperor's...

[-] Ice@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Undeclared income is the real bane of organized crime

[-] elephantium@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

This makes me think about property records in Somalia over the past 30 years or so.

[-] AmyAye@nord.pub 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Darth Vader never once in all those years went to have Thanksgiving Dinner with his half brother.

Think of what good for the Empire would have occured.

[-] AngryishHumanoid@reddthat.com 5 points 1 week ago

Bruh the moves are barely canon any more. A good explanation is a good explanation.

[-] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 4 points 1 week ago

It leaves a bitter taste that the blockbuster Fantasy need to have writing that falls apart the moment you look slightly deeper into it (Star Wars and Harry Potter come to mind).

[-] socsa@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago

I mean the empire hunted down every Jedi, you'd think they could hunt down every Skywalker and every Kenobi as well

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

So, the storyline on "every last Jedi" gets soft around the edges with all the EU material. Because everyone wants to write a book or do a game or whatever about "the OTHER other last Jedi". And then you've got to explain Joruus C’baoth. And nobody wanted to see Ahsoka Tano die. And they resurrect Darth Maul at some point. And and and...

This means you get a bunch of hand-waving explanations for why this or that professionally trained force user doesn't fall under Yoda's strict categorization of "Jedi", at the moment he says the thing to Luke Skywalker in the Third Movie. And, along the way, it carves out a bunch of caveats and exceptions for why Darth Vader didn't quite get them all.

Frankly, I think it's enough to say the galaxy is big and Tatooine is very remote and the Empire doesn't have a ton to fear from a Jedi survivor who kept his head down for twenty years.

[-] cattywampas@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

That's why I choose to believe Luke went by Lars, and just sort of ignore the fact that they knew Ben's last name.

[-] VinegarChunks@lemmus.org 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I can appreciate a little fun pointing out inconsistencies while still understanding the movies would be considerably worse if the writers spent any effort trying to prevent Lemmy inconsistency memers.

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Luke went by Luke Lars up until the events of ANH.

Wormie Lars.

[-] sundray@lemmus.org 36 points 1 week ago

Nothing in the prequels contradicts the possibility that Anakin Skywalker is kind of a doofus.

[-] thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 17 points 1 week ago

One on one Anakin is a goat. In a solo space craft, he is also a great.

But he never got to Jedi Master for lots of reasons and I suspect that part of it is his problem with large complex situations. He can't even keep the Han from getting his peeps and two idiot droids from escaping in front of him while surrounded by his troops

[-] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 week ago

Are you talking about in A New Hope? They intentionally let them escape so that they could track them back to the rebel base.

[-] thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Oh yeah... LoL it's been a while since I watched* it

[-] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The movies are one thing, but in the Clone Wars TV series Anakin was a reasonably competent general.

[-] sundray@lemmus.org 8 points 1 week ago

Anakin's lowest point was when he was written by George Lucas, unfortunately. Other writers made him shine.

[-] spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 week ago

I like that the existence of a space registry implies the existence of a space DMV

[-] vocornflakes@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

And existence of a Database Administrator tasked with TRACKING AN ENTIRE GALAXY'S WORTH OF SETTLEMENTS.

[-] xav@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

Only in the US (that I know of) is the DMV coupled with ID cards.

[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 week ago

If they would just have combed the desert.

[-] fleebleneeble@reddthat.com 8 points 1 week ago

They ain't found shit!

[-] Xerxos@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago

Kenobi could just be a common name, like looking for a John Smith. Also, with multiple planets full of people, there could be thousands of 'Kenobi,' even if the name is not common.

[-] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Dwight: sigh, no it's marijuana.

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