Star Wars Rebels Season One (spoilers)
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Not really seeing as Kanan and Ezra tries to keep their being Jedi under wraps unless absolutely necessary. Hence why Ezra's lightsaber has a blaster mode.
I always thought it was fairly clear that Han Solo had seen a lightsaber used before Ben whipped one out in the Mos Eisley Cantina.
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"Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid."
Sure, Han might simply have been being smugly condescending. But how would he have really had reason to believe that, unless he'd actually seen a lightsaber in combat, especially in a situation when a blaster was the better choice or the lightsaber was ineffectual?
Also, Han was pretty unimpressed with Ben's use of his lightsaber in the Cantina, which could mean simply that he was being low-key, but it could also mean that he'd been around that block before.
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"Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid."
Sure, Han might simply have been being smugly condescending. But how would he have really had reason to believe that, unless he'd actually seen a lightsaber in combat, especially in a situation when a blaster was the better choice or the lightsaber was ineffectual?
Also, Han was pretty unimpressed with Ben's use of his lightsaber in the Cantina, which could mean simply that he was being low-key, but it could also mean that he'd been around that block before.
To be fair, they still generally try to keep the Jedi thing on the QT, at least in public. I think it was just a few episodes ago when Kanan admonished Ezra when it looked like he was about to ignite his blade in-front of civilians.
Not without reason either. We saw in TCW that public opinion had already begun to turn against the Jedi as the war dragged on and one imagines most people bought the official "attempted coup" story. As such, in a crowd of average people, odds are some of them would be more than willing to report a Jedi sighting. And that's just the citizens that were on the Republic side in the war. Those on the Confederate side probably have about as much love for the Jedi as they do for the Empire.
Revealing themselves to a mercenary like Solo would potentially be ten times as dangerous.
Come to think of it, having Solo see them use Jedi powers wouldn't be out of sorts. He's seen a lot of strange stuff in the galaxy. He just doesn't believe the Force controls everything. Simple tricks and nonsense. Not that those tricks and nonsenses don't work against the Empire, just Solo would rather trust luck than some hokey religion.
Even Luke's rescue of Solo from Jabba doesn't seem to change Han's opinion all that much. BY EU standards it takes years and having kids that use the Force to get Han Solo on board the Force thing.
Even Luke's rescue of Solo from Jabba doesn't seem to change Han's opinion all that much. BY EU standards it takes years and having kids that use the Force to get Han Solo on board the Force thing.
I wonder if he allowed Kanan to escape on purpose. Or it was just coincidence that Kanan was left unguarded when Ezra rescued him. Maybe the Inquisitor needed to take a bathroom break or something.
The inquisitor "died" pretty much the same way Maul "died."
Not quite. Granted being cut in half and falling down a very deep shaft is usually fatal, but at least he still had a body (half of one, anyway) the last time we saw him. The Inquisitor let himself fall into a damaged power core/reactor thingy which promptly exploded along with most of the rest of the ship. It's a fair bet he was vaporised.
If Solo was 30 in Episode IV, that would put him 15 at the fall of the Old Republic and the birth of the Empire. He would be around 10 to 12 at the start of the Clone Wars. Old enough to have heard or seen first-hand reports about Jedi from older adults or news broadcasts. Something as big as "the guardians of peace for the entire galaxy have turned on the government and their temple has been destroyed and all of them executed for crimes and high treason" would be big news in the entire galaxy.
Solo would have been around 11 years old, not 15 (Episode III took place 19 years before ANH). So he would have been around 8 years old at the start of the Clone Wars. Assuming he was around 30 in ANH, like you said.
One of the novels have Solo as a slave of sorts when he was that age. He might not have been getting much news. I think it was in the second Han Solo trilogy of novels. Of course in those he does ge involved a little with the Rebels from time to time. It just isn't his thing (he's in it either for the money, or the woman). Though Solo does fight the good fight in almost every novel he's in that takes place before ANH. He just tries to justify it to himself as in it for the money, or in it for himself (to rescue someone he needs in order to do repairs or refits to the Falcon).
That's the AC Crispin Han Solo trilogy - basically book one. He's taken from his family as a very young child by a gang of pirates.
In the third book he's very loosely involved in the Rebellion (he did not know about the true motivations of what was being done) and it gives background to somewhat justify his resistance to going along with them at the end of ANH. (if it needed justification)
According to Lucas he was raised by Wookies and at one point they considered having him in one of the Kashyyyk scenes, so who knows what they're going with for official canon at this point.
Still, it's a foregone conclusion that given his attitude in ANH, anything he may or may not have seen or heard did not leave him with the impression that the force is the all power cosmic energy field the Jedi made it out to be.
As for the news reporting on the Jedi "betrayal", I think it's a safe bet that 1) Palpatine already largely controlled the press by that point and 2) quickly and quietly buried the story.
Indeed, I fully expect any knowledge of the Jedi was activity suppressed in the early years of the Empire to the point where 10-15 years later it's practically taboo to even mention them.
It's not like most people would have any first hand experience with Jedi. In a galaxy of trillions of people across a million worlds there was only ever 10,000 of them. Plus they were fairly cloistered and didn't mix much with the general population.
Still, it's a foregone conclusion that given his attitude in ANH, anything he may or may not have seen or heard did not leave him with the impression that the force is the all power cosmic energy field the Jedi made it out to be.
As for the news reporting on the Jedi "betrayal", I think it's a safe bet that 1) Palpatine already largely controlled the press by that point and 2) quickly and quietly buried the story.
Indeed, I fully expect any knowledge of the Jedi was activity suppressed in the early years of the Empire to the point where 10-15 years later it's practically taboo to even mention them.
It's not like most people would have any first hand experience with Jedi. In a galaxy of trillions of people across a million worlds there was only ever 10,000 of them. Plus they were fairly cloistered and didn't mix much with the general population.
I prefer the more graceful Trek ships myself, but really like what they have done with the Gozanti ship used to dangle the TIEs.
Does the Star Destroyers seem a bit small to anyone. They were made almost federation smooth due to CGI concerns, but also seem a bit scaled down.
I agree that the Star Destroyers in Rebels seemed a bit small , and the sides seemed to smooth. Even smaller was the transport they use at the end to attach the two stolen TIES to. There is maybe five meters between the ships, which makes the vessel really small.
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