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Penny Arcade - Comic - Beb Kineb
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Penny Arcade - Comic - Beb Kineb
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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(I don't know why I'm spitballing as I assume there's a 17,000 word essay on Wookipedia explaining how this was the greatest act of subterfuge known to the Empire and is the culmination of a Jedi tradition going back 7 centuries or something)
-Tycho Brahe
Out there somewhere is an executive pitching four seasons and a movie for a Greedo prequel.
Remember when we thought the long drought between 1983 and 1999 (punctuated only by semi-canonical books, comics and cartoons) was a travesty?
Wasn't until KOTOR that my wife and I saw the appeal.
Obi: "Greetings, young lad. I am Obi-Won Kenobi. You don't know me yet, but your father was a great..."
Luke, an annoying teen: "Yeah whatever Ben. Quiet down, I'm waiting for them to call my number".
Station Attendant: "I have a power converter and a half caf latte for Obi Won?"
Luke: "Hey, that must be for you, Ben. See ya later geezer."
Back at home...
Luke: "I met this weird old guy at Toshce Station today."
Owen: "I hope it wasn't that Obi Won Kenobi..."
Luke: "Naw, some guy named Ben."
Years later:
Luke: "Hey, I wonder if this droid is talking about old Ben Kenobi."
Owen: "No, that's...never mind. Yes. He means Ben Kenobi."
Wait, so why did he call him Ben? Is that like people calling someone a Karen? lol
-Tycho Brahe
Steam ID: Good Life
According to at least one Legends novel yes, Kenobi is a very common name on Tatooine, and furthermore it's an accident that he kept that name to begin with - a teenage girl with a crush on him, Kallie, was sneaking around his hut and heard him use it. (Check the green ticked answer here: https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/5574/why-did-luke-skywalker-call-obi-wan-ben )
Yeah, it's not Star Trek where you can say the name of a random civilian from two hundred years ago and the computer has their picture, medical records, and thirty generations of geological records. He's on a planet that doesn't even have accurate maps available and he's in the middle of the Here There Be Dragons area on the far left, and it actually *has* dragons.
In a normal universe, sure. But we sure as shit have learned that every fucking thing seems to happen on Tatooine.
In that universe, the first place I'd look is Tatooine if I lost my goddamned keys.
(Edit: and yeah, I realize a lot of that stuff took place AFTER A New Hope, but give them enough time and they'll be thousands of years of Tatooine being the nexus of the universe prior to it.)
The prominence of Tatooine honestly only serves to exaggerate that the Star Wars universe has worse records keeping than a shady pawn shop. The world that in living memory gave the galaxy both a legendary tyrant of the Empire and a legendary hero of the Rebellion, and it has at least one city worth mentioning within driving distance of the main spaceport that doesn't appear on the official maps, which a regular visitor hasn't even heard of and which even a resident in the know is calling by an out of date name. Let alone finding that city's residents on any kind of census or registry anywhere.
Honestly it's probably him having too much vision. Tattooine being too prominent stems 100% from having Anakin be from there. Every other appearance of the planet has been essentially mandatory because of some other character they wanted to include like Jabba.
But there was no reason Anakin had to be from there. Phantom Menace could have happened on any planet. The only reason Lucas had it there was because he wanted everything to "rhyme like poetry". If he had gotten over that idea and just written a story that stood on its own, we wouldn't have this problem: at least as much as it currently is. (We'd still probably have some degree of overusing the same planets because of nostalgia bait).
I think it's sadly common that creators of great movies don't always get why the public at large consider them great. Or just don't care, preferring their own vision. Look at Ridley Scott's return to the Alien universe. Or Spielberg with Indiana Jones (though Lucas had his fingers in that one, it was ultimately Spielberg's call as the director). Or Richard Kelly with Donny Darko (based on his directors cut just crushing a lot of the stuff that was good in the original cut).
I don't think that choice is about Anakin. He already had Luke, Obi-Wan, Han, AND Jabba established on Tatooine, and the original movies already went back there TWICE. Seems he put Anakin on Tatooine because of that, not the other way around.
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