Obi-Wan Kenobi (S1E05) - "Part V" - 6/15/22
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I like to hop over to the TV Time app, and see what their users are saying about a show, rather then just here. 800+ comments on this episode alone, and most positive. Good to know I'm not the only one enjoying it 
Excited to see how it wraps up this week.

Excited to see how it wraps up this week.
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Re: Obi-Wan Kenobi (S1E05) - "Part V" - 6/15/22
He knew Padme was pregnant, but not with how many kids. When Sidious told him that Padme was dead, he assumed she died before giving birth. It's always been secondary canon/lore that when Vader found out the name of the pilot that blew up the Death Star he realized that she had given birth and began hunting him. The conversation between Vader and the Emperor about the son of Skywalker is the Emperor telling Vader that he knew what was going on and that he'd better be careful about it.
It's always been a huge logic hole that they dumped a kid named Skywalker back in the same place where Anakin Skywalker lived, so let's not dump the blame for that on this show.
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I believe that if you go back to the Padme's funeral scene in III, which they flashed back to here, they have made her corpse appear to still be pregnant, so the public would think she never gave birth before she died.
It's always been a huge logic hole that they dumped a kid named Skywalker back in the same place where Anakin Skywalker lived, so let's not dump the blame for that on this show.
It's always been a huge logic hole that they dumped a kid named Skywalker back in the same place where Anakin Skywalker lived, so let's not dump the blame for that on this show.
I mean, Tatooine IS a planet. Just seems like we kinda' just spend time in one section of it.
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How far is the Lars moisture farm from the slave quarters? I mean, it it akin to, say, somebody growing up in Sydney Australia and their step-parents relocating to Boise, Idaho?
I mean, Tatooine IS a planet. Just seems like we kinda' just spend time in one section of it.
I mean, Tatooine IS a planet. Just seems like we kinda' just spend time in one section of it.
It's a desert planet where eking out an existence farming moisture and carving up giant animal carcasses passes for living. Apparently, since it's on the outer rim, it's a great place to run criminal enterprises, but if you are not a criminal or engaged in some enterprise that profits from the existence of the criminal activity, why would you live there?
And I'm not very knowledgeable about space economics, but places like Naboo and Alderaan exist. And whenever people really need or want to get to another planet, there are always transports and cargo ships going back and forth.
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Skywalker is a very common surname in the Mos Espa White Pages. Like the name Nguyen is in the Ho Chi Minh City directory. But not a common name at all in other Tatooine cities like Anchorhead and Freetown, like Nguyen is uncommon in cities like Anchorage and Freeport.
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I think its the same as here. Some people just grow up in poor places, and never leave. Plus they would not have to deal with the Senate/Empire, etc.
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How far is the Lars moisture farm from the slave quarters? I mean, it it akin to, say, somebody growing up in Sydney Australia and their step-parents relocating to Boise, Idaho?
I mean, Tatooine IS a planet. Just seems like we kinda' just spend time in one section of it.
I mean, Tatooine IS a planet. Just seems like we kinda' just spend time in one section of it.
Only thing I'd change is compare it as Anakin growing up in Darwin, Australia, but Luke growing up in Kandahar, Afghanistan.....both kind of rural outposts in desert-like regions...yet on opposite ends of the planet.
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Except that according to Star Wars maps, everything from Mos Eisley to Mos Espa, Jabba's palace to the moisture farms, including Bestine, the Sarlacc pit, and Tosche Station are located within a 3000-square mile area.
Rhode Island doubled in size or Connecticut cut in half.
Rhode Island doubled in size or Connecticut cut in half.
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Except that according to Star Wars maps, everything from Mos Eisley to Mos Espa, Jabba's palace to the moisture farms, including Bestine, the Sarlacc pit, and Tosche Station are located within a 3000-square mile area.
Rhode Island doubled in size or Connecticut cut in half.
Rhode Island doubled in size or Connecticut cut in half.
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Except that according to Star Wars maps, everything from Mos Eisley to Mos Espa, Jabba's palace to the moisture farms, including Bestine, the Sarlacc pit, and Tosche Station are located within a 3000-square mile area.
Rhode Island doubled in size or Connecticut cut in half.
Rhode Island doubled in size or Connecticut cut in half.
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https://i.stack.imgur.com/BELI5.jpg
Anakin grew up in Mos Espa, so it looks like the Lars farm is about 75 miles away from that (by Bantha).
The droid was fitted with a restraining bolt by Reva, that she used to control it, and either had it report its location, or it had a tracker built-in. Leia removed the restraining bolt.
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