Imagine you’re some pod racing enthusiast watching the Boonta Eve Classic and some literal child enters with the shittiest scrap pod you’ve ever seen. He built it himself. He then proceeds to absolutely demolish every other professional racer. The kid never enters a race again but his legacy lives on in the hearts of the pod racing community.
About 10 years later, you tune into a news stream to catch some news about the Clone War. The announcer is talking about a particularly pivotal battle, saying something about “Jedi General Anakin Skywalker”
YOU MEAN THAT KID FROM THE BOONTA EVE CLASSIC???
btw if i was obiwan, and i’d just spent the last 3 days nearly dying in a space battle, then nearly dying after fighting my evil grandmaster (again), then nearly dying fighting a cyborg with a lung condition and far too many limbs, then really nearly dying after my own soldiers turned on me, then had to find out my brother son student best friend person had turned evil and is now working for the Super Evil guy in charge of everything who just ordered the murder of everyone i know, oh and he also killed a bunch of children, and then i was sent to kill my best friend son brother person even though i would literally rather die, despite all the new evilness and murder, and then had to watch him nearly murder his wife (who is also my friend), and then nearly died again fighting him, and even though i won, i left him horribly for dead and everything sucks and i had no friends and no home nothing. if i had to go through all that and then yoda tells me he has HOMEWORK for me during my sad lonely exile?? i would’ve punted that stupid green frog so fast
«I used to bring Qui-Gon here as a boy. He was fascinated with this tree, having been born here on Coruscant, a planet of steel and stone. He knew nothing like it».
I think one of the best and unintentionally funniest worldbuilding aspects in Star Wars is the reasoning of why did Bail and Breha adopt Leia instead of having their own children. Leia is first established as the princess of Alderaan before she is written to be Luke's sister. So now we need to figure out how she got to Alderaan. She was adopted because she needed to be hidden and separated from her brother. Bail was placed there to be one of the only people who knew so there would be a reason why it was them who got her. They specifically wanted a daughter. Why? Because Alderaan is a matriarchal society, so they needed a princess. Why didn't the Queen and her husband have biological children? Because they can't. Why? Because the Queen can't have kids. Why? Because she got injured as a teenager and got her internal organs replaced and her body can't handle a pregnancy. How did she get injured so badly? She fell off of a mountain. How did that happen? She was climbing it. Why was the future Queen climbing a mountain in the first place? Because she needed to go through three challenges in order to inherit the throne and one of them required her to go through something physically impressive. Why? Because before that they just held a Battle Royale for all the heirs and the one left alive got the throne and they at some point figured out that maybe they shouldn't be doing that, actually. Oh, okay.
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) Andor Season 2 (2025) Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
You can rest there. - As a prisoner. - As a hero. (Andor 2x11 & 2x12)
Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan Kenobi STAR WARS: EPISODE III - REVENGE OF THE SITH (2005)
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