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ViewtifulGrave
09/03/19 6:07:16 PM
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Anakin was the Chosen One meant to destroy the Sith and bring balance to the Force. George Lucas confirmed that Anakin did complete the prophecy when he threw Palpatine off of the bridge.

Yet now Disney is now telling us that Palpatine lived somehow lived. Not only that, but the fact that Snoke apparently has been around since before the the Empire.

So this means that Anakin never brought balance to the Force or that he wasnt the Chosen One. Could it be that they are trying to push Rey as the real/true Chosen One? I say this because Reys growth rate is incredible especially without any training. Rey casually lifting the boulders at the end of TLJ is the greatest force feat in the movies.
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DaveTheUseless
09/03/19 6:08:27 PM
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Saw OT, thought Old Testament, and went 'now wait a minute'

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Cotton_Eye_Joe
09/03/19 6:08:46 PM
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Disney likes $$$$
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TheDreadedWave
09/03/19 6:08:48 PM
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Didn't he live in the comics or books or whatever also?

Like Boba Fett
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DeadBankerDream
09/03/19 6:08:48 PM
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I think you're misunderstanding something.

That stuff is not OT stuff. That was Lucas retconning the OT when he made the PT.

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legendarylemur
09/03/19 6:08:51 PM
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More that Rian Johnson probably didn't give a shit about any of those little details and J. J. Abrams is probably gonna go with some weird time travel plot

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specialkid8
09/03/19 6:16:18 PM
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Real life answer: they can do whatever the hell they want as long as it's adequately explained somehow. Also
DeadBankerDream posted...
That stuff is not OT stuff. That was Lucas retconning the OT when he made the PT.

George has been making shit up about his work since before JK Rowling could even spell horcrux.

In universe answer: Prophecies are hard to understand and can be kind of flip floppy to begin with.
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s0nicfan
09/03/19 6:16:47 PM
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Why is everyone assuming he lived? Force ghosts are a thing.
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GeneralKenobi85
09/03/19 6:16:58 PM
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The Chosen One stuff was always kind of stupid anyway.
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ViewtifulGrave
09/03/19 6:17:23 PM
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DeadBankerDream posted...
I think you're misunderstanding something.

That stuff is not OT stuff. That was Lucas retconning the OT when he made the PT.

True, but Lucas didnt really change much if anything when he turned Anakin into the Chosen One.

Disney is straight up changing and/ or ignoring established lore. Id be a little less annoyed if they have Yoda recall the line from AOTC talking about miss reading the prophecy.
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09/03/19 6:18:01 PM
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ViewtifulGrave
09/03/19 6:21:55 PM
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s0nicfan posted...
Why is everyone assuming he lived? Force ghosts are a thing.

George said it was a light side ability similar to how the Sith have Force Lightning.

Besides in canon Qui Gon only taught Yoda and Obi Wan. Im not sure how Anakin learned it though.
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Doom_Art
09/03/19 6:22:12 PM
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s0nicfan posted...
Why is everyone assuming he lived? Force ghosts are a thing.

Seriously lol

Also the film isn't even out yet so everyone is basically freaking out over fan theories
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ViewtifulGrave
09/03/19 6:26:35 PM
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Im not speaking on any fan theory though. Just what been established in the movies and the Clone Wars.
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DeadBankerDream
09/03/19 6:26:56 PM
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At this point I dunno whats worse, bringing back Palpatine because hey its things we know! or him turning out to just be a five minute force ghost after they've pushed him (and his plastic toy) so hard in the marketing of the film.

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Doom_Art
09/03/19 6:30:02 PM
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DeadBankerDream posted...
At this point I dunno whats worse, bringing back Palpatine because hey its things we know! or him turning out to just be a five minute force ghost after they've pushed him (and his plastic toy) so hard in the marketing of the film.

Frankly I'm just getting a kick out of all the folks who complained that Snoke wasn't Darth Plaugieus now complaining about Palpatine coming back
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ViewtifulGrave
09/03/19 6:30:14 PM
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Also Sith can not make force ghosts most likely because they are a corruption of the Force, but they can imprint themselves on to objects as seen in the Clone Wars.
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s0nicfan
09/03/19 6:32:10 PM
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DeadBankerDream posted...
At this point I dunno whats worse, bringing back Palpatine because hey its things we know! or him turning out to just be a five minute force ghost after they've pushed him (and his plastic toy) so hard in the marketing of the film.


This... this would be worse:
ViewtifulGrave posted...
Also Sith can not make force ghosts most likely because they are a corruption of the Force, but they can imprint themselves on to objects as seen in the Clone Wars.

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ViewtifulGrave
09/03/19 6:33:33 PM
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DoomsSD posted...
A prophecy that misread, could have been.

Yeah this is it.

If Disney really is retconning the OT and PT hopefully they give this line a shoutout.
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DeadBankerDream
09/03/19 6:34:31 PM
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Wait, what happened to C-3PO's red arm? Was that just randomly thrown into Force Awakens for no reason and then they replaced it without telling us?

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Tyranthraxus
09/03/19 6:36:48 PM
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ViewtifulGrave posted...
George said it was a light side ability similar to how the Sith have Force Lightning.

Besides in canon Qui Gon only taught Yoda and Obi Wan. Im not sure how Anakin learned it though.


Anakin probably figured it out but wasn't able to use it until he redeemed himself to the light side.

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Tyranthraxus
09/03/19 6:37:31 PM
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DeadBankerDream posted...
Wait, what happened to C-3PO's red arm? Was that just randomly thrown into Force Awakens for no reason and then they replaced it without telling us?


It was put there so they could expand the merchandise line

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Darmik
09/03/19 6:41:56 PM
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How can you learn being a force ghost before you're dead anyway.
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s0nicfan
09/03/19 6:46:17 PM
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Darmik posted...
How can you learn being a force ghost before you're dead anyway.


Maybe they go the old "Palpatine was really Plagueis all along" theory and make it so that he has "resurrected" a bunch of times now and takes on a different name each time?
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Phewfus
09/03/19 6:46:45 PM
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It invalidates Vaders sacrifice for the sake of money, but ehhhh......

That seems the case for these Disney sequels in general, instead of building on the old stories and making something unique, they just rehash elements from the OT, but worse.
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ViewtifulGrave
09/03/19 6:48:45 PM
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Darmik posted...
How can you learn being a force ghost before you're dead anyway.

IIRC Qui Gon learned the ability before he died and taught Yoda and Obi Wan as a force ghost himself.
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CapnMuffin
09/03/19 6:51:16 PM
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Whos to say Anakin is done fulfilling that yet?
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HylianFox
09/03/19 6:51:42 PM
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GeneralKenobi85 posted...
The Chosen One stuff was always kind of stupid anyway.



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Darmik
09/03/19 6:52:34 PM
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ViewtifulGrave posted...
Darmik posted...
How can you learn being a force ghost before you're dead anyway.

IIRC Qui Gon learned the ability before he died and taught Yoda and Obi Wan as a force ghost himself.


How do you learn being a ghost before you die
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DeadBankerDream
09/03/19 6:52:41 PM
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ViewtifulGrave posted...
IIRC Qui Gon learned the ability before he died and taught Yoda and Obi Wan as a force ghost himself.
While you're technically correct, that was done by Lucas in a stupid anus scene in Revenge of the Sith that existed solely as a desperate and unneeded attempt to tie his universe together, so we should ignore it.

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s0nicfan
09/03/19 6:52:45 PM
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Phewfus posted...
It invalidates Vaders sacrifice for the sake of money, but ehhhh......


The New Order already did this in Force Awakens when they blew up those five Republic planets, and then the Last Jedi double tapped the corpse by turning the resistance into a single ship with a dozen people.
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Tupacrulez
09/03/19 6:54:06 PM
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totalnerdken posted...
DaveTheUseless posted...
Saw OT, thought Old Testament, and went 'now wait a minute'
Didn't you know? Marvel bought the rights to the Christianity universe. They're planning on buying Judiasm and Islam and are going to make an RCU (Religious Cinematic Universe).


I mean I wouldn't out it past Disney to try.
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ViewtifulGrave
09/03/19 6:57:28 PM
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I guess Anakin could summon a storm or some BS like Yoda did in the TLJ.
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ViewtifulGrave
09/03/19 7:05:17 PM
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DeadBankerDream posted...
ViewtifulGrave posted...
IIRC Qui Gon learned the ability before he died and taught Yoda and Obi Wan as a force ghost himself.
While you're technically correct, that was done by Lucas in a stupid anus scene in Revenge of the Sith that existed solely as a desperate and unneeded attempt to tie his universe together, so we should ignore it.

Didnt the Clone Wars expand on this subject?

Darmik posted...
How do you learn being a ghost before you die

Qui Gon was super spiritual and more in tune with the Force than most. Im most likely wrong on this, but I believe that was able to communicate with the Wills.
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action52
09/03/19 7:18:48 PM
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specialkid8 posted...
Real life answer: they can do whatever the hell they want as long as it's adequately explained somehow. Also
DeadBankerDream posted...
That stuff is not OT stuff. That was Lucas retconning the OT when he made the PT.

George has been making shit up about his work since before JK Rowling could even spell horcrux.

This. I bet that literally every Lucas movie from ESB onward has retconned something from previous movies.

Doom_Art posted...
Also the film isn't even out yet so everyone is basically freaking out over fan theories

Also even more this

ViewtifulGrave posted...
Also Sith can not make force ghosts most likely because they are a corruption of the Force, but they can imprint themselves on to objects as seen in the Clone Wars.

My hypothesis that I've been saying since the first trailer is, Palpatine put himself into the computers of the Death Star 2 with plans to gain immortality as a living Death Star. His mind and consciousness are sleeping within the remains of the space station.
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Christian RULES
09/03/19 8:41:02 PM
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Our sequel trilogy heroes will probably go back in time to the prequel and original trilogy eras to collect some things, and when they come back to the present, Palpatine and the Empire will follow them which explains the army of Star Destroyers in the D23 trailer.
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Crazyman93
09/03/19 8:41:46 PM
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ViewtifulGrave posted...
Yet now Disney is now telling us that Palpatine lived somehow lived.

Sure, why not? The Legends series has a whole series of stories that can be summed up as "Palpatine Came Back Using Clone Bodies." This isn't really a new idea.

DeadBankerDream posted...
Wait, what happened to C-3PO's red arm? Was that just randomly thrown into Force Awakens for no reason and then they replaced it without telling us?

The same thing that happened to R2-D2's miniature saw, and laser, and jet thrusters.
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MhkaCHemistry
09/03/19 8:45:51 PM
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totalnerdken posted...
Didn't you know? Marvel bought the rights to the Christianity universe. They're planning on buying Judiasm and Islam and are going to make an RCU (Religious Cinematic Universe).


Oh man, it's too soon for a Noah reboot. It's only been five years.

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ViewtifulGrave
09/03/19 9:37:30 PM
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Crazyman93 posted...
Sure, why not? The Legends series has a whole series of stories that can be summed up as "Palpatine Came Back Using Clone Bodies." This isn't really a new idea.

Im aware of the EU/Legends. Its still dumb to bring him back. Like you said its not a new idea. Palpatine technically came back in Battlefront II two years ago.
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Crazyman93
09/04/19 2:02:15 AM
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ViewtifulGrave posted...
Crazyman93 posted...
Sure, why not? The Legends series has a whole series of stories that can be summed up as "Palpatine Came Back Using Clone Bodies." This isn't really a new idea.

Im aware of the EU/Legends. Its still dumb to bring him back. Like you said its not a new idea. Palpatine technically came back in Battlefront II two years ago.

The problem is it's easier to bring a villain back constantly, or make a new villain that's a carbon copy of the old one, than it is to make an original one. All said, I'd honestly rather have them bring back the Vong and focus on how the reborn Republic, with many of the same issues of the old one plus the issues of rebuilding from the Civil War, has to face this outside context threat. However, that would be a very boring movie for kids, and would likely result in politcal polarizations.

Alternatively, if they wanna worldbuild, do a movie where they're rebuilding the Jedi and some bitter Imperial Warlord pulls out a lost superweapon. "Some goon finds lost imperial superweapon" is like 70% of the plots of Legacy between ROTJ and the Legacy of the Force Series anyway. And it's not like Lucas himself didn't recycle the Death Star because he couldn't think of anything else.
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Nidhoggr
09/04/19 2:04:55 AM
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Star Wars is dead to me after that last one.
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scar the 1
09/04/19 2:06:08 AM
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Did the prophecy say Anakin would bring balance to the Force forever?
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Ricemills
09/04/19 2:09:42 AM
#47:


DeadBankerDream posted...
Wait, what happened to C-3PO's red arm? Was that just randomly thrown into Force Awakens for no reason and then they replaced it without telling us?


didn't he already back to gold arm in the end of TFA?
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HylianFox
09/04/19 2:20:28 AM
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DoomsSD posted...
Rocket stole his original arm.


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pegusus123456
09/04/19 2:56:32 AM
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s0nicfan posted...
DeadBankerDream posted...
At this point I dunno whats worse, bringing back Palpatine because hey its things we know! or him turning out to just be a five minute force ghost after they've pushed him (and his plastic toy) so hard in the marketing of the film.


This... this would be worse:
ViewtifulGrave posted...
Also Sith can not make force ghosts most likely because they are a corruption of the Force, but they can imprint themselves on to objects as seen in the Clone Wars.

hLTuGKK

One of the RLM guys has (what he hopes is a dumb) theory about them using time travel.

So maybe that could be worse.
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Dampproof
09/04/19 4:19:28 AM
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People only assumed it was Anakin due to the amount of space wizard bacteria he had.

Then again the prophecy was a PT invention just like the unbelievably stupid Jedi code designed specifically for Anakin, but somehow thousands of other people we're "fine" with it.
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