Star Wars Questions/Answers Thread

Master Joined: 22 Dec 2010 Posts: 1846

It's funny because it was a blooper and later in the same scene you see the actor very carefully duck under the door.

The other two scenes are homages to it like Life said, suggesting that stormtrooper was a Jango clone and men with that genetic profile are prone to hitting their heads. I didn't even remember Rex hitting his head but that video came up when I was looking for the other two.
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Master Joined: 22 Dec 2010 Posts: 1846

Alright, here's a really esoteric non-lore question:

Does anyone have issue #13 of Star Wars Galaxy magazine?

It has an interview with Tom Veitch and Daniel Wallace which I am interested in the details of. I have the following passage from it:

"From my point of view, I think it's profoundly important to 'penetrate the dark side and learn its secrets.' That's the hero's main task, in fact--not simply killing off his enemies. A personality that is divided into warring opposites must somehow become whole and complete. Carl Jung would call it 'integrating the Shadow.'

"The three existing Star Wars films are about the battle of the hero and the Shadow in the form of the dark father. If there are ever to be filmed sequels to the current trilogy, it would be logical and mythologically satisfying to somehow depict 'integrating the Shadow.' In psychological terms, that would be inevitable, as part of the process of reunification of the galaxy and the re-emergence of the Jedi Knights. If the dark side is simply suppressed, pushed into the unconscious, then it will surely rise again."

As an aside, the person that furnished me that quote also stated:

"As for Vergere's Sith status, I can't speak in any official way about that, but I think it was left purposely ambiguous as a compromise between those who loved and hated Vergere's ideas. IMO, Vergere's teachings in Traitor don't closely parallel those of Lumiya throughout Legacy of the Force, and that should make us suspicious of Lumiya's claims concerning her."

Wow, reading my PM inbox for an old username I abandoned years ago is enlightening to what I used to enjoy about Star Wars.
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“The world is understood through metaphors. Language is a metaphor-system. Mathematics is a metaphor-system. All real-world schools of magic and religion revolve around the understanding of vast metaphor-systems, symbols as they relate to concepts."

"See, the thing is, everything everyone tells you is a lie. The truth is always bigger than the words we use to describe it."

A few political/ bureaucratic issues.

What was Darth Vader's actual role in the Imperial Government?

Why did Emperor Palpatine go by his real name instead of Emperor Sidious?

The Empire has an Executive Administrator and Legislative Regional Governors. The New Republic/ Galactic Alliance has an Executive Administrator and Legislative Regional Governors. So what is the difference?

Re: Dark Lord Of The Sith: the comic series "Star Wars Empire 1-4: Betrayal" established that the Moffs knew that Palpatine was a Sith. Their plot in that comic arc was to destroy Vader and Sidious so that the Empire would be ruled by regular men, not Sith.

Re: Vader's role: I'm not sure if he had a specific role in the government, but he was the Supreme Commander of the Empire's military. There used to be a chart on Wookieepedia, but I can't find it anymore.
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Good points. I wasn't being entirely serious with that last question. It just struck me as odd that the Galactic Empire really isn't so much an empire; where the Emperor still has power he seems to have as much power as any other Head Of State and the government seems to be capable of functioning entirely without him. In fact the idea that for most of the Empire's history in the EU it didn't have an Emperor always seemed kind of strange to me.

I think the thing with Palpatine was it was originally either meant that he was not a Sith, or just unclear. You know that the Sith are not even mentioned in the OT, so it could be said that a Sith was just a dark Jedi. I would have liked to have had that accounted for in the PT, but alas...

I assumed that Vader was the head of the military. Thanks for clearing that up.

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