8 Star Wars Questions That Always Confused You

[@ElladanKenet]

Obi-wan's exact line is "I don't remember ever owning a droid." Because he never did. He didn't own R2. Anakin did, and beforehand, Padme.

[@achoumachi6695]

r4......

[@ElladanKenet]

@@achoumachi6695 Did not own him. Owned by the Jedi Order/RepublicSecurity

[@achoumachi6695]

@@ElladanKenet yes and yoda is the jedi master who taught him everything

[@achoumachi6695]

@@ElladanKenet in official sources r4 belongs to Obiwan

[@ElladanKenet]

@@achoumachi6695 Which source? If you're going to claim a source, please back it up. Because official jedi scripture is that jedi have virtually no possessions individually, aside from their robes and lightsaber. Everything else is owned collectively by the Jedi Order, the Republic, or is borrowed or given by others. starwars.fandom.com/wiki/R4-P17 'was assigned to Obi-Wan.'

[@samanthaellenrook9199]

So far as Obi Wan "not remembering " Artoo is concerned, it wasn't as if this was the only thing he wasn't exactly honest about, especially to Luke. The old man was, to say the very least, economical with the truth.

[@sophiawhitfield2443]

Um, you know how they say that Storm troopers can’t aim, we’ll have you seen how small the eye wholes are!

[@brokenlogics1532]

R2

[@thefallcor1]

@@brokenlogics1532 aretwo

[@allanmasanegra9523]

Actually in new hope, Kenobi said hello there, Come out OLD FRIEND dont be afraid? I mean Kenobi remembers R2 Thats why he said old friend at R2

[@jeffdavis6657]

Obi Wan did not lie, he said, "I don't remember ever owning a droid"

[@joenesvick7043]

I've always pointed out that Obi-Wan said he didn't recall owning a droid, not "I never seen this droid before." As for Threepio, well he didn't introduce himself to Owen and the driod Owen remembers wasn't gold (if you bought a toaster from a thrift store would you assume it was the same one you had twenty years ago, especially if it had different coverings). Vader only had one scene with Threepio, the very scene where he stops Boba Fett from shooting the wookiee with the droid on his back "don't shoot my droid!!!!"

[@kiwib.7824]

That's true. Obi Wan didn't own R2. The Republic owned R2. But he was mostly teamed up with Anakin and 3PO

[@wilhufftarkin8543]

@@kiwib.7824 Technically, Padmé owned R2, but she gave him to Anakin. Anakin on the other hand gave 3PO to Padmé as a gift.

[@sheilaolfieway1885]

And vader does rememmber c3P0. there's a book where he does remember him in cloud city.

[@joenesvick7043]

@@sheilaolfieway1885 that would be why he stops Boba Fett from shooting

[@dinogoldie9716]

Vader took orders from Tarkin because Vader was originally conceived as a secondary henchman/enforcer and not the movie's primary antagonist (a la Jaws and Stromberg in "The spy who loved me").

[@CoolMyron]

Also Mr. Palps forced him under takins command after making a mistake. Punishment i guess

[@jackj9816]

Cool Myron i thought he did that with one of the generals he hated after the Death Star blew up

[@grahamcann1761]

"Lucas didn't know he'd include them in his prequels." No quite accurate I'd say. I remember Lucas once saying, in the early 80's, (forget if it was written or print,) that Star Wars was a nine episode saga, which started on number four, and it was really the story of R2D2 and C3PO, and they were the only characters who'd link it together. (Of course it's a very old memory, and I was just barely no longer a teen,) I think the reason is Lucas didn't know how Obi-wan would fit in. I don't think he "knew" Vader would be Luke's father, and Leia would be his sister. As always thank you so very much for the video.

[@bmbougie]

I read this back in the 80s as well, or watched an interview, the details are kind of fuzzy. But I remember a cable guy came to install cable to our house one day and he was a big fan of Star Wars and we talked all about it. We were both looking forward to the next movies, not knowing it would be a couple decades before we'd get them.

[@stevegallo8483]

I remember this as well, and I also remember it was to be the "Skywalker Saga" even then. George Lucas may not have had all the details worked out for the prequels or the sequels while working on Episode 4, but I'm reasonably sure he had at least a working idea for them.

[@williamlee7482]

You are correct , he even stated that obi won faught Vader on a volcanic planet and that Vader was severely injured by obi won who left him to die

[@chriswilder9719]

He didn't plan on Vader being Luke's father. Obi told Luke the truth in new hope and while writing empire someone suggested to lucas that he should make Vader his father. He was opposed at first but relented eventually

[@adamcarreras-neal4697]

he did always have the driods telling hte saga of the Skywalkers, it follows the Japanese Storytelling style he was copying

[@theswaggyp3]

Speaking ill of Star Wars? “ITS TREASON THEN”

[@taylorbarker616]

Jar Jar Binks

[@theswaggyp3]

@@taylorbarker616 I think you mean Darth Binks

[@BEARDEDAXEMODELS]

I never read Obi wan and R2 as a plot hole. In the context of the timeline it makes perfect sense. Obi Wan was tasked with protecting Luke when suddenly the past turns up on his doorstep. At this moment he's still hoping he can send Luke back to his Uncle and Aunt and keep Luke totally in the dark while he finds out why R2 is here. Very quickly as the story unfolds however that's never going to be allowed to happen and Obi Wan's hand is forced. He does the same later with the revelation of Luke's father. At first trying to protect Luke from the truth before finally relenting when keeping up the facade is pointless.

[@djay6651]

I always go by the pre-Disney timeliness. So, clones weren't used by the Empire because they were engineered with a shorter life span, and according to the original Thrawn trilogy, subject to clone madness. As to lightsaber crystals, a variety of natural and synthetic crystals were used. Corran Horn used a diamond in his saber, the first known with a white blade, which was built from throttle assembly from a speeder bike.

[@vaasmontenegro9308]

If I had a dollar for everytime ewan mentions Master and apprentice, I would be rich ( no offense I love the book too)

[@Matatabi6]

I have never mentioned it

[@mr.boomguy]

@@Matatabi6 LOL xD

[@jossypoo]

Ewan MacGregor?

[@R2Dgio]

I guess that the decision behind the dismiss of the clones in favour of “normal” humans is also related to the control of the systems: if a system send soldiers to the empire is loyal and linked to the central power. It sees the army as something of their own and so, just. The clones could be seen as “droids” of the central empire and so not so relatable.

[@LucyWest370]

Or they didn’t like shelling out thousands of credits for what are essentially glorified security guards. But by the time the empire was against actual opposition, the alliance, kamino was already totally wrecked by the clone rebellion.

[@saemikneu]

it might be answered in "The Bad Batch"'s seasons 2 and 3

[@mulletmann6558]

@@evanevanf4033 umm theres a shitload of reasons...they're expensive, they are unrelatable, they take too long to build up the numbers required to police a galaxy. much easier to just indoctrinate a generation alrready there than have to create one.

[@sheilaolfieway1885]

But the issue is wouldn't normal humans be more susceptible to deserting the empire? as oppose to clones? Actually in the EU/Legends the empire did continue making clones from other sources for awhile before fully switching to recruiting normal humans

[@calebbarnhouse496]

@@sheilaolfieway1885 yes, but what you need to remember is that to the empire a few deserations isn't that big a deal, only the starfighters of the rebellion were any good unless you had a named character around

[@wastelanderstark8555]

About the storm trooper armor, there was another video somewhere that explained that clone troopers armor was technically better because it was better at taking the direct hit, but that the black onezi the storm troopers wore was to take the direct blast and spread it out across the whole body to incapacitate the trooper rather than flat out kill him

[@danielbigham6290]

When I was in the Army in the 1980's, we called our World War 2 era steel helmets "brain buckets". Someone on Lucas' staff was likely a veteran so calling Stormtrooper helmets "buckets" probably came from that reference.

[@jackcughes8031]

More likely, someone plays a sport that requires a helmet. Lid and buckets are slang for helmets in some sports.

[@chriswilder9719]

@@jackcughes8031 or seeing how it's heavily inspired by wars the original comment is more likely than a slang reference from sports

[@purplep9150]

"why did the empire phase out clone troopers?" *laughs in bad batch*

[@allanmasanegra9523]

Actually the empire trained the last batch of clones and thats it, And then darth vader went to kamino and kill all of the kaminoans and the empire stop the cloning facility

[@purplep9150]

@@allanmasanegra9523 i mean bad batch the show, not a batch of clones were bad

[@allanmasanegra9523]

@@purplep9150 yes I know your talking about bad batch Im just telling what happend to the clones aka stormtroopers.. And also to the kaminoans....

[@purplep9150]

@@allanmasanegra9523 its not that deep, i was just referencing to the bad batch as it shows the transformation from the republic into the empire after order 66

[@allanmasanegra9523]

@@purplep9150 Oh ok.. My bad hehe😅😆😂

[@theanarchist9733]

"shut down" is a nice way to put it

[@lanceturley7745]

My theory for stormtrooper armor is that it was designed for riot control, and not direct military combat. With the war over and the Empire in full control of the galaxy, stormtroopers were mostly needed as military police to keep civilians and criminals in line. And the Empire would never expect the rise of the Rebel Alliance, or that the Rebels would have access to military grade weapons and equipment, so the common stormtroopers were caught off guard. This would also explain why the more heavily militarized factions of the Empire, like deathtroopers or the snowtroopers on Hoth, were shown to be much more effective in combat.

[@CoolMyron]

ST armor is great. Great protection against most blasters and was really strong against physical objects like bullets. People think there armor is weak but in reality, the blasters are OP.

[@LucyWest370]

The snow troopers on both did the same thing as the stormtroopers on the tantive IV. Not to mention the defense of Scariff, in which the rebels got the crud beat out of them and wouldn’t have made it if The Death Star didn’t decide to go boom.

[@CoolMyron]

@@LucyWest370 Without plot armor the Stormtroopers get work done.

[@davidwate6057]

Regardless of anything y’all claim, Stormtroopers got chumped by teddy bears half their size with sticks and rocks. Thus stormtrooper armor is crap.

[@CoolMyron]

@@davidwate6057 Ummm no. Ewoks are mini Wookies, there pretty strong. Plus the rocks and bows didnt kill many if any Stormtroopers. if you look closely you can see them still alive on the ground.

[@rumsmuggler30]

The explanation for the darksaber is pretty straightforward. Tarre Viszla bonded with his kyber crystal and it turned black. Then he built it with a mandalorian style instead of a traditional Jedi style saber.

[@mikejornlin]

Something interesting happened in The Bad Batch a couple weeks ago that I haven’t seen anyone on KZbin comment on but that I feel has strong implications for the universe. A clone is shot and goes down and we assume he’s dead. But then, a while later, he recovers, injured but alive. To me, this demonstrated the clone/stormtrooper armor works but we don’t usually spend enough time around those who have been shot to see them recover. This implies that the armor actually isn’t useless.

[@dhorn4005]

Aaaah... very different thing clone armour and stormtrooper armour... in old legends; supposedlly; stormtrooper armour was superior to clone armour; able to absorb even direct blaster shots... the energy, however, was disspersed by the armour causing moderate shock that tended to knock out the soldier inside... but in exchange saved his life. According to this version; most of the stormtroopers we see falling in battle in the original triology, are not actually dead but uncontious... but I think this explanation came from a time where dozens of authors in comics, videogames, novels and roleplaying games where writting wathever they saw fit; and Lucas simply gave the OK to everything without thinking that someone should think about unifiying all that mess... Coming back to clone armour vs stormtrooper armour; a common thrope that has endured from old Legens and Disney Canon; is that the Emperor is cheap bastard. I every version we are tolld that the Emperor wasted no extra money in his men during the Imperial time. During the Clone Wars, the Caminoans, the Jedi, the Seante... they put their hart and soul into winning the war; so the clone soldiers where the best trained, the best equiped and the best prepared mother**** in the galaxy... but after the war was over; there was a single man calling the shots: Palpatine And he did not need an army of a million elite soliers leaded by space wizzards to launch suregery precised attacks into a far more superior army in size... he needed billions of zealot glorified goons to police the galaxy. In the case of battles the Empire had to undergo; this time the numbers where on Palpatine's side; and quite frankly; he did not care in the sligthess how many stormtroopers would die in the proccess. So, cheaper armour, cheaper blasters, cheaper ships... hell, even the TIE figther; the iconic starfigther of the Empire was extrmelly cheap to produce; so mutch so that it wasn't even equiped with deflector shields; while the starfigthers of the rebel alliance, like the legendary X-Wing; where state of the art and very expensive machines (bougth to private companies by wealthy Alliance simpaticers like senators Month Mothma or Bail Organa) equiped with everything you could dream in the hopes that even in small numbers; the rebel pilots could achieve victories against the sheer numbers of the Empire... you can even see that after the Battle of Yavin; the Empire saw that been cheap was such a weakness that developed the faster, better equiped and better protected TIE interceptors so elite pilots could actually had a chance against rebel scum Soooo, yeah; clone armour was better made; that's for sure; but even with that in mind; I think is safe to assume that even if it's crappier; stormtrooper armour could still disperse part of the blast and some of the troopers we see falling, may be too bad to continue figthing, but that their wounds would heve been mutch worse if they wheren wearing the armour... ...fun real life fact; in WWI; the british army made an experiment in the trenches; after seen how many soldier where killed by headshots, fallind debree or other major inuries to the head; they estarted using helmets.... under certain time; the british high comand saw the reports, and for a moment believed that the helmets where a terrible idea; as the number of casuallities due to head injuries was FAR worse than before using helmets... upon further inspection though; they realized: yes, wearing helmets mutch more soldier where reported casuallities... but most of them where alive. Concusions, injuries, burns... they where counted as casuallities cause they have to be evacuated to hospitals; but after some days, weeks or months; lots of them could come back; while before using helmets, MOST of the head injuries resulted in death. So even if your armour is not veskar and cannot delfect blasters; if it can make that the number of injuriedd troopers raises in exchange of lowing the death toll, it's still worth it.

[@Pecos1]

The Dark Saber was created by Tar Vizla, the only Mandalorian to also become a Jedi. Whether he started with a black crystal, or found one later, is unknown.

[@demonslayerXP]

2 other reasons the clones were phased out: they were VERY expensive and the chip that contained Order 66 contained about 150 other orders, many of which were about killing the chancellor (that way if someone found all of the commands on the chip, it wouldn't be suspicious that only jedi were to be killed in case of betrayal) and he didn't want those orders to be used against him.

[@juanberdarquea2550]

That moment between R2 and Obi Wan gave me goosebumps

[@bendynamic2150]

I remember there was a passage in Legends before it was legends that said that the armor was meant to defuse a blaster bolt and it rendered a stormtrooper unconscious more often than kill them. Forgot where I read this I read it about a decade or so ago if not longer but I remember reading that that was possible reason and or theory that their armor absorbs and distributes the Blaster bolt but the energy and the concussive force or energy of said bolt has a high chance to render the user unconscious while lowering the chance of outright death.

[@dinogoldie9716]

Never mind "direct blaster shots," stormtrooper* armour isn't that effective against ewoks throwing sticks and stones. (*Well technically those are scout troopers but still).

[@LucyWest370]

If I walk up to a guy wearing a bullet proof vest and stab him with a spear idk if he would survive either man. Also the Ewoks had the elements of surprise, the home field advantage, and were incredibly fast and small and hard to hit.

[@davidwate6057]

Palpatine’s own words: “an entire legion of my best troops are waiting on the moon’s surface”. So I call bullshit on everyone who claims stormtrooper armor is anything but useless.

[@paris5663]

@@davidwate6057 oh yeaa you got canonical proof and not something that came from a meme.

[@MelralCT-]

@@paris5663 unfortunately they're now slowly making the memes canon, which includes the 'horrible' aim and them barely seeing out of their helmets

[@MelralCT-]

@@LucyWest370 also try wearing the most "protective"/best helmet while having a large rock thrown at it while you are wearing it.

[@PumaVoid]

If you look up "What is stormtrooper armor made of" it says this "The outer layer was made of plastoid composite armor, the next layer was an anti-blaster mesh, followed by magnetic shielding, and finally an inner insulator. Cellular padding helped prevent head injury." and another source says that it is made so when directly shot they are not killed only incapacitated to be healed later by advanced medical treatment

[@knickydymondz33]

My whole problem is that NO ONE remembers anything! Owen Lars doesn’t remember the droids even though he met them both before and Jabba didn’t recognize the name Skywalker

[@Chillyzirconium]

I'm sure he meets a lot of droids They only stayed with them a couple if days and in a New Hope they seem to buy new droids for the harvest season annually

[@knickydymondz33]

@@Chillyzirconium yeah, but C-3PO mentions his own name every chance he gets, and Owen would have known that Anakin built him

[@funnydepressive32]

@@knickydymondz33 Maybe he does remember but doesn't wanna talk about Anakin... Wouldn't surprise me since he told Luke Obi-Wan was dead.

[@williamlee7482]

@@knickydymondz33 Yeah but he didn't want luke to know that his father turned from a Jedi into a Sith and instead told him his father was a navigator on a spice freighter . He hide that fact from him so that he wouldn't go searching into his father's background and in doing so might become corrupted by it

[@toddnolastname4485]

I doubt Owen pays much attention to droids. It would be if you stumbled across your old iPhone that you sold ten years ago. It looks like a thousand other iPhones. Until Luke mentions the message he found, and Owen decides they need to wipe the droids.

[@sheilaolfieway1885]

7:37 Obi-wan never mentions anything that would say he didn't remember r2d2 even his line "Don't remember owning any droids" is true as Anakin owned r2d2 and Padme before she gave him r2. So he's right he never owned a droid... Also obi-wan wouldn't exactly want to reveal all his past... 9:55 Fun Fact: Luke's second light saber uses a purified kyber crystal from a sith's light saber..... Similar to Ashoka's white light sabers.

[@julijan2653]

The color of jedi's lightsaber represents the jedi themself. For instance, green lightsaber means that you are more connected to tue force and will always try to find a way around the fight. Blue means that you are connected to the force, but still rather fight. Yellow is a mix of both. Purple means that you use the dark side, whille still remaining jedi. White is basicly a red but purified with the light side. Orange is similar to green (master yaddle had an orange lightsaber).

[@Anakunus]

That does not make sense. If it did, Obi-Wan's lightsabre would have been green, not blue.

[@julijan2653]

@@Anakunus that's basicly copied from star wars explained book (only canon facts) so don't blaim me

[@LadyFairChildVideo]

nah, george lucas said good guys get blue and green. and bad guys red. and Samuel Jackson gets purple as a gift.

[@chriswilder9719]

@@LadyFairChildVideo Samuel got purple because he asked George for it seeing how red and blue make purple and mace is both a dark side user and a light side user

[@LadyFairChildVideo]

@@chriswilder9719 what a bunch of horseshit. he got purple because he asked for purple since he wanted to stand out in the Geonosis film footage...

[@stevegallo8483]

Always thought the Stormtrooper armor was more for intimidation than for protecting the wearer. Regarding Obi Wan and R2-D2, of course the old man recognized the little droid. He said "I don't seem to remember ever owning a droid." He said it, because he never owned a droid and certainly not R2. Don't believe he owned R4 or R6 either. They were assigned to him during the clone wars. Remember also that Obi Wan massaged the truth where Luke was concerned.

[@jameswaterfield]

The novelisation of the original movie was written by Alan Dean Foster in 1977! The book you mention here is a re-novelisation, released by Disney to cover their butt as they have chosen to change the canon

[@Vasily400]

1:20 Dooku always looked stupid to me in clone wars

[@healthmain]

My favorite is in the Mandorlorian where they punch Storm Troopers bare handed through the armor and still knock them out.

[@Charlie94781]

The.Ewoks definitely experienced the KT Extinction times 1000

[@WardenWolf]

One thing that the old legends novels stated on more than one occasion was that high-powered blasters like the one Han Solo carried were a relatively new invention. They were a post-Clone Wars innovation. This actually perfectly explains the uselessness of Storm Trooper armor; it had simply become obsolete. The armor might have been good 20 years earlier, but it was useless against front-line weaponry by the time of A New Hope.

[@mickhack8034]

It's literally explained in the SW KotR games how a Jedi goes about getting his lightsaber. He chooses between either classes: Guardian, Sentinel, Consular. Within those they choose to follow a more specific route if they so want to: Guardian 1: Weapon Master (Saber specialist). 2: Instructor (Saber teacher). 3: Ace (Pilot specialty). 4: Peacekeeper (cop), Sentinel 1: Artisan (Saber crafter). 2: Investigator (less agressive cop). 3: Recruiter (speaks for itself). 4: Shadow (basically a Jedi Batman). 5: Temple Guard. 6: Watchman (a overseer of a planet) Consular 1: Ambassador (A "Hi, welcome to the Republic" guy). 2: Diplomat. 3: Healer (a nurse lol). 4: Lore Keeper (Librarian with a sword). 5: Researcher. 6: Seer (basically a dude who could see into the future)/ Attuned to any of these roles, the Kyber Crystals respond to the chosen padawan and it speaks to it through the Force. It's not that hard

[@WR288]

TCW dropped the ball in regards to how Dooku was handled. He got the personality of a moustache twirling villain with the nuance of Christopher Lee's portrayal gone.

[@CoolMyron]

I mean they could have done a back story, but other than that he didn't do much other then command from afar. We got to see more of him when he was taken by Hondo tho.

[@WR288]

@@CoolMyron He commanded Separatist troops on the front lines in both Legends and Disney Canon. Portraying him winning battles for the CIS in the show would have been a good opportunity for some character development.

[@CyberBeep_kenshi]

The armor was to depersonalize them as well. Especially the helmet. Not allowed to take it off, remember from forcec awakens?

[@Inv1ns1bl]

i doubt the empire would give their troopers armour if it only protected them from glancing shots. it really fully protected them from blaster fire and dispersed the bolt throughout the armour, its just that the forces behind the bolt was enough to knock a tropper unconsious.

[@ReaperofValhalla]

For the stormtrooper armor question. Growing up I always believed because they are the bad guys. Now that I am grown up and in the army I truly believe cost effectiveness. The cost to train, arm, armored, feed, equip and pay a single storm trooper must cost quite a pretty penny. Their armor got a few neat tricks but ultimately getting the common trooper killed would cut some slack on the bean counters. The fact that the empire would send the storm troopers to their death on a whim and the fact most troopers were practically homeless and joined for three square meals and a paycheck also deals with poverty and crime on important worlds to some degree.

[@tay-dor7147]

I always figured Obi-wan didn't remember R2 because it had been 20 years and astromechs are a dime a dozen. Would you necessarily remember your friend's toaster oven he used to have 20 years ago?

[@kamikazeviking3053]

The stormtrooper armor would also be great at protecting against shrapnels.

[@davidm4566]

We are assuming that stormtroopers die when shot. The blast may knock them down while the armor still protects them.

[@patrickhasachannel]

the other thing I remember about the trooper helmets: designs were mass-produced for what was likely the last generation of clones, therefore conscripts wouldn't all have the same size heads

[@buckybarnes5241]

Not protecting from direct blaster fire is one thing. Not protecting from sharp sticks and rocks thrown by 3 foot teddy bears is preposterous.

[@LucyWest370]

(Stabs guy wearing Kevlar with a spear) Preposterous why didn’t he live

[@buckybarnes5241]

@@LucyWest370 If my job was to violently suppress a stone age indigenous culture I wouldn't wear Kevlar. 'Cause that would be stupid.

[@LucyWest370]

@@buckybarnes5241 that wasn’t there job though, until the rebels came the empire and the Ewoks were on pretty good terms. The empire wasn’t harvesting any of their resources and the Ewoks didn’t attack them. But the rebels convinced the Ewoks the empire was bad, so they died.

[@JoeWuhPuh]

Storm Trooper armour was designed to disperse the energy from direct blaster shots, which would more often than not leave the trooper unconcious but alive. Or was that only Clone Armour? I can't remember lol

[@CoolMyron]

that was Stormtrooper armor. Its not that the armor is weak, but the fact that blasters are crazy OP.

[@LucyWest370]

@@CoolMyron pretty much. Clone armor was apparently not even made to disperse blasters, just to apparently absorb explosions. I have no clue why, droids can’t even throw grenades.

[@CoolMyron]

@@LucyWest370 B1's can throw grenades. Plus most deaths on the battlefield were caused by booms in one way or another. CLone Armor was better tho. Getting shot would not make you unconscious. Thron took like 5 before he died.

[@LucyWest370]

@@CoolMyron Really? I’ve never seen a B1 throw a grenade, I was never aware they even came equipped with any. A lot of deaths on the battlefield aren’t from explosions when your main opposition is B1 droids who only really use blasters, B2 droids that physically can’t detach their blasters or even use their hands, roly poly droids that dont have an option to switch out their blasters, and commando droids who either only use blasters or stab you to death with a vibrio blade. I mean sure the separatists did have tanks but they didn’t use them often Also when thorn was shot for the first time he was pretty much ready to die. As soon as he was shot once he kneeled on the ground and pretty much died before getting shot four more times. It was just really high adrenaline I guess lol. Clone armor was worse, getting shot meant you were conscious the whole time you died.

[@CoolMyron]

@@LucyWest370 yeah they can. They can pick up stuff just like anyone else. Deaths from ship combat and bombardment really does a number on the men. Probably not as many as blasters, but close

[@starkillerrock]

I just thought that obi-Wan Kenobi wasn’t mentioning to Luke that he remembers the droids to protect him from the past even though he did tell him about the past what I mean is like about his father building C-3PO and stuff like that because that would probably shock him

[@emlynhughes9936]

Hello there

[@Jefflo888]

General kenobi!

[@CRoot1952]

Oi m8

[@theswaggyp3]

General Mundi hello!

[@2-Way_Intersection]

so, addendum to the empire phasing out clones: in battlefront 2 (the pandemic one not the ea one) there is a mission where youre tasked with eliminating a rebel group of clones on kamino. im very fuzzy on the specifics, but what i do remember is a: the empire planned to at least temporarily use their own revised clones that pulled from more than just jango's dna and b: they phased out the originals due to unreliability, as shown

[@MP-by4ps]

I hate when a video says I never knew the facts that they talk about.. and them I know them all

[@nicholastotoro7721]

Dooku's motivations were pretty simple. He thought he was going to be cleaning up things (he never became fully Dark, thus no yellow eyes), then was working with Palpatine to destabilize both the Separatists and the Republic in order to create the Empire.

[@escanor8798]

God damn i would still wear that old clone armor especially the phase 1 as the main armor and the phase 2 as a helmet perfect outfit

[@charlesgregory3747]

Regarding Ben not remembering R2.... A stray note from someone who was around back when ESB first hit the screens, and Lucas revealed his grand design: It was always his intention to have R2 and 3PO be the central drivers of the narrative in all three films. What he had not intended was to tie the prequel and sequel trilogies so tightly to the characters of the "middle" trilogy. The continuity would be maintained by the droids, with totally different characters for each trilogy. With only a small chance that we might see Luke as a child near the end of the third movie. So perhaps his original intent had been that there would be no major story arc involving Ben and certainly not bringing him together with the droids in the first trilogy.

[@OldNew45]

Really liked this one.

[@Nerdnumberone]

I could have sworn that I read somewhere that red sith lightsabers used synthetic crystals rather than corrupted kyber crystals. Is this old lore or something?

[@adamcarreras-neal4697]

original lore, there were red crystals be they were very rare. The start of the Thrawn triology Luke gives Leah a red light sabre, which she ignites when the assassin attacks her.

[@AC-kx4zr]

Funny that Bad Batch is basically answering what happened to the clones.

[@legionarybooks13]

Regarding Vader and Tarkin, yes the books and shows try to explain it all; however, when the original film came out, Vader was not meant to be the main villain of the larger story. And at the time, George did not plan for him to be Luke's father. Vader wasn't quite a glorified henchman, but it is pretty clear that Tarkin is at minimum his peer, though probably his superior. In every scene they're in together, Tarkin is the one with most of the dialog and is clearly the one calling shots (especially that little one he ordered lobbed at Alderaan). Heck, even the Emperor is only mentioned once, very briefly, when Tarkin says the senate had just been dissolved permanently. By the time they started work on "Empire", George's vision of Vader had changed completely.

[@DrMindmasher]

It’s crazy how many of these questions have been answered in the last two years

[@Starkill3r306]

I wouldn’t use High Republic as reference, seeing how they don’t really understand lightsabers either :l

[@bernardomansoldo2978]

After that lucasfilm exec said we can choose what we consider canon, high republic became non canon to me.

[@kevinvassago]

@@bernardomansoldo2978 Didn't Timmothy Zhan say that?? In my mind, that makes that statement even more true than just an exec saying it.

[@bernardomansoldo2978]

@@kevinvassago It was matt martin. But every time i link a souce, the comment gets deleted.

[@kevinvassago]

@@bernardomansoldo2978 dude, that's crazy how it gets deleted like that?!? I know Timothy Zahn said to consider legends books canon until a new canon book directly contradicts it. But that's also buried in Google. Holy sht tho, that's weird how the link keeps getting deleted🤷🏼

[@CmdrShepard95]

May I ask what is wrong with the High Republic stuff? Genuinely curious since I haven’t read any of that stuff

[@SomeGuy4245-f1v]

Already figured out the Obi-wan and R2 thing

[@joshuawinters7644]

Here Are A Couple Questions On My Mind: 1: How Did Darth Maul Survive Not Only Being Bisected, But Falling Down A Large Shaft? 2: How Did Maz Kanata Get Her Hands On Luke's Lightsaber (The Original From A New Hope And Empire Strikes Back) Which Was Shown Falling Down A Shaft In Cloud City?

[@williamlee7482]

1 : through his connection to the dark side and his will to live to exact revenge - that's my guess 2: we don't talk about Disney's lack of knowledge about star wars and how they just make things up that make no sense whatsoever like " the force awakens " . Disney doesn't know that the force isn't just about Jedi or Sith but that there are many other force traditions out there such as the night sisters of dathomir for example that were not part of the Jedi or Sith orders

[@Charlie94781]

The Sith actually used synthetic crystals

[@markvicferrer]

Given it's durability, stormtrooper armor seems more like a uniform rather than protective gear.

[@chriswilder9719]

It's meant to stop glancing blows and low powered bolts as well as intimidate the locals and make it easier for the troopers to carry out horrible acts. Worked until the rebels started using high powered rifles and over powered pistols

[@jb1139]

Poor C3PO, always forgotten, even when remembering the forgotten.

[@TheWolfman112]

More Accurate Title. Star Wars Questions For Those New To Star Wars

[@henryreinhold9097]

I’m so glad tales of the Jedi addressed some of this

[@jackwenn_9693]

I though that stormtrooper armour protected against gas. Fin mentions it

[@patrioticjustice9040]

Storm trooper armor: can't survive a shot from a main character, yet somehow survives the Death Star II blowing up.

[@LucyWest370]

No one on the Death Star II survived.

[@LucyWest370]

Who are you referring to.

[@davidwate6057]

@@LucyWest370 I think it is a reference to there being some armor found when Rey goes to the Death Star wreckage.

[@LucyWest370]

@@davidwate6057 another reason why TROS isn’t canon...

[@ПламенаВълчева-ф5х]

Yes, I aways asked myself, why the stormthroopers even have armor(It is so WEAK), and the way I explain it to myself is- they just hide their identity from the other Stormthroopers.The same thing about their names being numbers -B 16752, B 2599...

[@Nerdnumberone]

My headcanon about stormtrooper armor was that it turned lethal hits into incapacitating ones. After the battle, downed troopers could receive medical attention and recover. If you get shot while wearing a modern bullet resistant vest, you might still suffer terrible bruising and even broken ribs, possibly taking you out of the fight. Even if you were in too much pain to fight, your chances of survival and recovery will still be a hell of a lot better than if the bullet tumbled through your organs.

[@Nerdnumberone]

My joke explanation for why stormtroopers aren't effective is that they don't want to be promoted to be an officer because Vader doesn't force-choke infantry when they fail.

[@SaiaArt]

Storm trooper armor is not really defensive in design. It serves 2 functions according to Lucasfilm circa 1999. Primarily it is a psychological weapon. There’s a seemingly endless supply, wave after wave, all identical skeletons. It demoralizes the enemy. 2nd, the helmets provide battlefield information in a HUD, targeting etc. The power for this comes from the backpack, which is sleek and easy to not notice. Due to this design, it is an offensive worn weapon and support device, not defensive protection.

[@DanBen07]

Number 8: Attack of the Clones had a few deleted scenes with Count Dooku that would have shown us more. Number 7: in Star Wars rebels Ezra had a energy slingshot it didn't do anything against Stormtrooper armour. Number 6: in the Canon book the lightsaber collection it says the weapon is related to the Jedi lightsaber but is unique in both shape and colour. Number 3: there is also a short story about Obi-Wan Kenobi not remembering R2-D2 in the A New Hope from a certain point of view novel.

[@mikeobrien6411]

I thought the KOTOR video games described the lightsabers rather well.

[@banthatracks_gaffisticks]

Also after the death of Jango Fett access to fresh DNA would be a huge hurdle in creating more clones.

[@dpsamu2000]

The armor is for conventional weapons like knives, spears, arrows, clubs, and bullets. Blaster bolts are like miniature advanced explosive armor piercing RPGs with led tracers, More like gas propelled grenades like paint balls with armor piercing shaped charge explosive pellets. Full load about 200 rounds in a pistol, and thousands in large guns. Like real armor it's hot or cold depending on the environment. But the helmet provides cold or warm air to breath so the trooper could control his body temperature. That's what the breathing tubes in the helmet are for. It has vents in the tubes that can be opened or closed depending on the needs of the trooper, and the conditions, and to conserve power in good weather. The surface area of the lungs is so large, hundreds of square feet, the heat transfer that way is far more efficient than our LCG garments that inefficiently attempt to cool astronauts by cooling the whole skin of the body. Quite comfortable that way. Even in the hottest desert it's like being in a warm bed on a cold day. In the cold it's not as comfortable, and the user needs to wear additional insulation garments on it. The advanced high capacity batteries allowing the small high torque motors in the air conditioners make it workable. It may be possible to make real storm trooper armor on Earth now. I just use a small ice box, and fan in the fanny pack to cool the air tubes to the helmet in my costume armor.

[@mikeobrien6704]

The Obi Wan/Artoo and Tarkin/Vader relationships were confusing because Lucas hadn't yet fleshed out the characters at the time of A New Hope. He hadn't even created the true relationships between Luke, Leia and Vader yet. I've seen Lucas and others talk about it. It wasn't until the success of the first Star Wars movie and Lucas was given the green light to do the sequels that he began expanding the characters. Lucas didn't know if Star Wars would ever go anywhere.

[@darthborb3781]

i feel like dooku was first loyal to sidious, but after simply feared him over anything else, and so allowed sidious to use him to start, and fight in the clone wars

[@yeudler41]

Most of these questions have some-what obvious questions.

[@everythingduude7386]

according to the internet storm trooper armor spreads energy throughout the armor. They're not dead they're incapacitated

[@kennetha6840]

Well, the internet is wrong the majority of the time.

[@kennyjayhardy]

George Lucas wrote an outline of 3 plays with 3 act’s each in the early 1970’s. The details were not completely filled in but a great deal of the story remained unchanged. For example Ankin Skywalker, which the last name was Starkiller, but he was the chosen one. He started with the middle story. Which is why on the second issue of Star Wars to theaters in 1978 he added episode 4 A New Hope. The Empire Strikes Back from its first release in 1980 has always started the opening crawl with episode 5! He always hoped he would one day complete his story…..

[@arunmoses2197]

"Why does stormtrooper armor suck?" Me: "Because stormtrooper armor is made of plastic."

[@CDRhammond]

In the EU it is shown Vader was under direct orders from Palpatine to follow Tarkin's orders while on the death star. That and the respect Vader had for Tarkin was what saved ADM. Motti for a very short time. The only Imperial officer other then Tarkin that Vader held any real respect for was Capt and later Admiral Piett who Vader personally requested.

[@moeomoton520]

Can you do a video strictly on the initial creation of the weapons? As part of the movie making process.

[@gbonkers666]

OK...here's the thing about armor...all kinds of armor. 1. If you hit anything hard or fast or repetitive enough, it will shatter...including bulletproof glass or vests or helmets...etc. It's a misnomer. 2. the real purpose of anything "bulletproof" is to protect against shrapnel which kills more than actual bullets. So, stormtrooper armor will shatter from an actual blast, but not from a side blast or ricochet, etc. 3. It is designed to intimidate. There is a reason they look like skulls.

[@Vasily400]

3:02 bucket head Phasma

[@Daniel-Strain]

Our impressions of the galaxy are distorted by the story's focus on heroes. The VAST majority of people in the galaxy never leave their home planet. Most of those who do have weapons very often have slugthrowers (like our modern firearms), which do NOT penetrate Stormtrooper armor very well. And when they DO have blasters, the standard blasters only barely match Stormtrooper armor. Most of the heroes and Rebels have modified and enhanced blasters made to penetrate armor.

[@jeffdavis6657]

I always considered storm trooper armor as a uniform.

[@aquamonkee]

The Empire certainly weren't concerned with lives in contrast the republic wanted troops alive to win battles

[@chrisdavis8830]

What has always irritated me and I have never heard an explanation was Vader's suggestion to turn Luke to the Dark Side to the Emperor instead of killing him. With the prequels Vader would have known about the rule of 2, and he would have remembered how the Emperor turned on Dooku to get him as his new apprentice. So how can Vader get Luke to turn without sacrificing himself? If he is willing to sacrifice himself to save his son did he just turn to the light side? Shouldn't The Emperor have known he was in danger to put Luke and Vader together knowing Vader rather die than Kill Luke?

[@inf3rnal_embers145]

Vader's plan, as he told Luke, was to rule with just the both of them like father like son. Palpatine's plan, was for Luke and Vader to fight each other and then possibly for Luke to defeat Vader and become his new apprentice. This becomes apparent in certain scenes in Return of the Jedi in which Palpatine is trying to get Luke to strike Vader down.

[@chrisdavis8830]

@@inf3rnal_embers145 I get that but I was referring to Vader telling the emperor his plan to turn Luke.

[@patrickboucher2907]

If Dooku and Darth Vader both turned to Dark Side and both were Yoda’s apprentice how good was Yoda?

[@aquamonkee]

Anakin was never Yoda's apprentice, that's covered multiple times

[@GamerMeister]

We the the clones getting phased out in Bad Batch

[@burieddreamer]

Clone troopers age fast, except for a few groups. And a few clones rebelled against order 66 for a myriad reasons.

[@gpgpgpgp1000]

I don't like the whole "mood crystal" thing. I liked it better when crystals were just simply blue or green, and on very rare occassions purple or orange. Also the Sith's red lightsabers were due to them using synthetic crystals which were only red.

[@jamesricker3997]

Stormtrooper armor was designed to protect against glancing blows and direct hits from light weapons The rebel alliance knew this and adopted heavier blasters

[@schwarzerritter5724]

The helmets of soldiers in real life are not meant to protect against bullets but shrapnel, so it is reasonable to assume it is the same with stormtrooper armour. Things explode when hit by blasters.

[@allanmasanegra9523]

But why in rebels new hope, empire strikes back, and return of the jedi when blasted by blasters they already dead

[@schwarzerritter5724]

Allan Masanegra We don't know they are dead. Getting hit with a blaster would still take them out of the battle, even if they survive. Fun fact: When modern armies started using helmets, the number of head injuries drastically increased. To the point some bureaucrats wanted to remove them again.

[@allanmasanegra9523]

@@schwarzerritter5724 hmmm I guess???

[@julienturcot8112]

@@schwarzerritter5724 It even has a name. Survivorship bias.

[@davidgiles4681]

You have one million plus individuals to armor, arm, and care. You want the best armor available. That costs credits. So, you study the best armor money can buy. You outfit the SpecOps with that and leave the standard forces with a mid grade level of armor. ST Armor did not suck. it outfitted them with a way of absorbing energy hits. It enabled the ST(s) to take a hit. In some ways, it is similar to the Edwardian Armor (the first two layer steel armore). Edwardian armor centered on one set of steel breastplate and a second steel breastplate. The first plate slowed the velocity of the (then top of line) rifle. The second plate then absorbed the remaining energy. Historical pictures show a clean hole through the 1st plate and a dent in the second plate. ST Armor is similar. It has a plastoid shell (in which a bolt will penetrate) the second skin (is supposed to absorb the energy) The helmet is the technology of the armor. It has so much electronics that if a trooper removes it - it stops working and ceases to be functional. As I understand, ST Armor can seal in space and provide some time for rescue (not that the Empire cares at that point). For a mass (and I do mean mass-produced) armor, it is appropriate for the job. Remember that the Imperial Army was never designed for front line military use. It was designed to keep the citizens down and terrified. Part of the psychological effect the Empire wanted was a death like visage. Also (unlike the Clone Troopers) no special adornment was allowed. Clone Troopers were designed and trained as front line armies (with the ability to think out of the box). A Galactic empire can not afford to put the absolute top of the line armor on standard troops.

[@S85B50Engine]

I prefer the old Legends version for Sith lightsabers, where they had to use a forge to make artificial ones

[@JamesFromTexas]

So just a video that explains everything as its explained in Legends? Good video for those not in the know though.

[@bluebaum2.7.16]

Does Obi-Wan not consider R4 his Droid?

[@davymac9866]

Republic droid on loan 😉

[@joermnyc]

Jedi weren't allowed to possess anything, R4 was his robot copilot buddy, not his own personal droid (he stayed with the ship)... And I think he was sad to see him get killed by the buzz droids.

[@keyoteamendelbar8742]

Technically, Obi Wan did not own R2-D2 but, he was familiar with him as he called the little droid his friend.

[@patrickmusson4571]

Boba Fett proved that Stormtrooper armor is useless, and he proved it by shattering the armor with a Gaffi Stick, hilarious and so cool to watch Boba almost single handedly defeat squads of the Imperial 'remnant' stormtroopers in Season 2 of The Mandalorian.

[@landonletterman831]

What stopped Vader from protecting Palpatine in the last movie? Luke has Sidious dead to rights, is currently in the process of striking out in anger, and Sidious just sits there positive Vader isn't going to fake a block and then tempt Luke to the dark side with all the good his anger just accomplished

[@doomblackdragon]

Pretty sure the there was info on storm trooper armor. Says that the wearer is more knocked out then right out killed when shot from a blaster bolt. They need medical treatment after words or they will die. Kinda why you see the trooper pulling back his buddy in the first battle of a new hope.

[@CT-8024]

Okay, so the armor question. Do we really need to look that far into it? They had a whole Death Star get one shotted and then tea bagged. How good could they be armoring nameless guys they happily kill? If anything, it is merely there to give them false hope.

[@JohanHaagg]

Might not be cannon, but there was talk about in some of all the games that the dark saber was created without any influence of the force. Not sure about it though.