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00:00The Star Wars franchise has been around for a whopping 45 years, with 11 live-action films
00:05hitting cinemas during that time, plus the animated Clone Wars feature. That's quite a lot of movie,
00:10and yet there still hasn't been enough screen time to give every tiny detail the attention it
00:14deserves. A recent Reddit thread discussed that very subject, with Star Wars fans bringing up
00:18various details that were either explored too little or not explored at all. I'm Emile from
00:23WhatCulture and these are 10 Star Wars details that are almost never mentioned.
00:2710. The impact of Owen and Beru's death on Luke
00:31The final scene of Revenge of the Sith shows Obi-Wan Kenobi handing an infant Luke Skywalker
00:36to Owen and Beru Lars, who go on to raise the boy like he's their own. In A New Hope,
00:40Owen and Beru are murdered by Imperial soldiers, with Luke stumbling across the grisly sight of
00:45their charred corpses after returning from a chat with Obi-Wan. Though Luke is visibly shaken when
00:49he discovers what has happened to Owen and Beru, he immediately sets out on the path to becoming a
00:54Jedi Knight, and the impact that their deaths surely had on him is never mentioned again.
00:58Luke seems sadder about Obi-Wan's death, a guy who he barely knows, than he does about the deaths of a
01:04couple who, for all intents and purposes, were his real parents. With their deaths being so brutal,
01:09you'd imagine the image of their crispy bodies would gnaw at his insides constantly,
01:13especially considering he never got to say goodbye, or thank you, or anything. From a certain point of
01:18view, it's quite cold. 9. How Palpatine Built a Star Destroyer Fleet Without Anybody Noticing
01:26How? How do I even? Let's do it anyway. Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker did such a bad job of
01:32explaining things that you had to go and play Fortnite if you wanted more context of the story.
01:37Even when the movie did explain things, these explanations were lazy, such as Poe's regularly
01:41memed line about how Palpatine has risen from the grave. Somehow, Palpatine has returned.
01:47Thank you, JJ. Clays things up. Something else the movie doesn't explain is how exactly Palpatine
01:52managed to build a massive fleet of souped-up Star Destroyers, a hugely important detail that
01:56the movie glosses over entirely. Where did he get the materials? How did he equip each ship with the
02:01planet-killing laser? How, on Exegol, did he finance this whole venture? With this fleet being the
02:07centrepiece of Palpatine's plan, it's unforgivable that the movie doesn't even try to
02:11explain it. And though extra backstory is available for those who want to do some homework, it's
02:15a total head-scratch for folks who only watch the films.
02:208. Droids Can Possess Human Levels of Sentience
02:23Some of the most beloved characters in Star Wars are droids, with the likes of C-3PO, R2-D2
02:28and BB-8 delivering many highlight moments in the movies they appear in. Despite this popularity
02:33though, something the movies never really discuss is that droids can possess incredibly high levels
02:38of sentience and yet they're often treated as emotionless, disposable or even just as jokes.
02:43Take C-3PO in Return of the Jedi, who seems terrified at the prospect of working for Jabba
02:48and even expresses self-doubt, wondering aloud if he did something to warrant Luke leaving him behind.
02:52What could possibly have come over Master Luke? Is it something I did?
02:57Oh, 3PO, come here, give me a hug, if you can feel it.
03:01In that same movie, we even see a gonk droid screaming with pain while being tortured, which
03:06makes you think about all the other times droids have been damaged or mistreated and how they must
03:10have felt. Though the concept of droid rights was touched on in Solo A Star Wars Story, it's an
03:15issue the movies have never done justice, despite the crucial role various droids have played in
03:19almost every single film. Droid rights now.
03:247. Ewoks are highly skilled fighters
03:26Mention the Ewoks to a casual Star Wars fan and they'll probably start talking about how adorable
03:31they are, which is fair enough. Just look at their fluffy little faces. But look, something people
03:36never talk about and something that, if their reputation as lovable plush toys is anything to
03:40go by, the movies haven't made clear, is that the Ewoks are among the most skilled fighters in the Star
03:45Wars Galaxy. Just look at how they completely outclass the technologically superior empire in
03:51Return of the Jedi. They coordinate their ambush outside the shield generator perfectly, starting
03:55off by using R2 and 3PO as a distraction and following this up by forcing the Imperial troopers
04:01to split up and run into the woods, right where the Ewoks want them. And that's not to mention how
04:05bloodthirsty they are, with the little beasts fully intending to dine on Han until 3PO's magic
04:10convinces them otherwise. The Ewoks look fairly harmless and the majority of their scenes are played in a light
04:15hearted way, which greatly distracts from their brutality and combat efficiency. Teddy bears,
04:20they most certainly are not. 6. The Destruction of the Death Star Brought the Empire's Followers
04:26Closer Together The destruction of the first Death Star at the
04:30end of A New Hope was a huge victory for the Rebel Alliance, but if you look at it from the Empire's
04:34point of view, then it was nothing short of an act of terrorism. The movies never touch on the fact
04:39Luke murdered millions of innocent people when he blew up the Planet Killing Machine. All those janitors,
04:44technicians, what about the chefs, who were only working for the Empire because it was a job or
04:48because they were too scared to leave? Further still, it's highly likely that this mass murder
04:52actually brought people from the Empire closer together and possibly even galvanised the additional
04:57support for the Empire across the galaxy. Though this angle was somewhat explored in 2017's Star
05:03Wars Battlefront II game, the movies never take the time to ponder such interesting details,
05:07with the ramifications of the Rebels victories never being looked at from the opposing point of view.
05:12It almost makes you want a Taken 2 style spin-off, where the father of a murdered Death Star employee
05:17hunts down Luke to enact his revenge. Go on Disney, you know you want to.
05:225. The Jedi are incredibly rare mythical beings
05:25The Jedi are prominently featured throughout the entire Skywalker saga, from Obi-Wan and Anakin in the
05:30prequels to Luke in the originals and Rey in the sequels. This ends up giving off the impression that
05:35there's a Jedi on every street corner, making it easy to forget that in actual fact they are mythical
05:40beings, and that the vast majority of people in the galaxy have never actually seen one.
05:46Luke Skywalker, I thought he was a myth.
05:48Because we follow one of these lightsaber-wielding heroes for each of the nine core movies, it does
05:53feel they're way more common than they actually are. Remember, the Jedi Order is fairly reclusive
05:58during the prequel era, and pretty much extinct for the next six movies.
06:024. The dark side of the force isn't inherently evil
06:06Force users are divided into two camps, the Jedi and the Sith, or the light and the dark.
06:12The movies draw a firm line between these two camps, telling us that the dark side is evil,
06:16and that the light, well, is right. Jedi want that on a t-shirt. While most on-screen evidence points
06:22to this being true, a notion that isn't fleshed out is that the dark side in isolation isn't necessarily
06:27evil. Rather, it's the users of the dark side who abuse its power for their own selfish or chaotic
06:32intentions. Look at someone like Count Dooku. Though he wields the dark side of the force,
06:38he hasn't let emotions like anger and hatred corrupt him, like they have for so many other Sith.
06:43Instead, he uses his dark side abilities with control. He's clearly far more level-headed than
06:48the likes of Vader and the Emperor, proof that dark side users need not become mustache-twirling
06:53megalomaniacs. And then there's Dark Vectivus, who also practiced the dark side but never let
06:57it consume him and could save off that destructive temptation. Despite what the movies might tell us,
07:02wielding the dark side doesn't automatically mean that a person is evil or that they will always
07:06succumb to the lure of power. It just depends on the person.
07:113. How Maz Kanata acquired Luke's lightsaber When Maz Kanata pulls Luke Skywalker's blue lightsaber
07:17from a box and hands it to Finn in The Force Awakens, Han Solo asks her where she got it. Her response?
07:22A good question for another time. In hindsight, her refusal to give an explanation feels startlingly
07:28similar to Poe's, somehow, Palpatine returned. Sorry, I can't even say it anymore.
07:32And though this particular detail arguably isn't as important, it's nonetheless frustrating that the
07:37movies never reveal how Maz acquired a lightsaber that was presumed lost deep within Cloud City.
07:42Some fans have headcanonized that because Maz was a pirate queen, she acquired it via her connections
07:46to the smuggling world. After all, she's lived a long life so had plenty of time to stumble across it.
07:51Other Star Wars media has discussed the lightsabers post-Luke Fate 2, revealing that a random
07:56Ugnaught found it on Cloud City and kept it from being destroyed. But as for how it made its way
08:01into Maz's hands, that's a good question for another time.
08:052. Dismemberment Makes Force Users Less Powerful
08:08Though the whole midichlorian thing has been largely swept under the rug in recent years,
08:12it's still part of Star Wars canon. Midichlorians which live inside the body's cells are linked to
08:17force potential, so the higher the midichlorian count, the more force potential an individual
08:21will have. So what would happen if that count was suddenly reduced? In a 2005 interview, George Lucas
08:28himself spoke about that idea, discussing how dismemberment would affect a Jedi or a Sith's
08:32force abilities, stating Anakin actually became less powerful after Obi-Wan chopped him into bits.
08:38Lucas went on to explain that the Emperor viewed Luke as a primo version of Anakin,
08:42simply because his body was more intact, and this was why he offered the younger Skywalker the chance
08:46to join him. Despite this idea coming straight from the horse's mouth, not a single Star Wars film
08:51has ever delved into it, which is bizarre considering how the franchise's two main characters both suffer
08:56dismemberment at various points. 1. The Severity of the Republic's Geonosis Defeat
09:01The arena battle in Attack of the Clones is a terrific spectacle, but the ramifications of its outcome
09:06are severely underplayed throughout the rest of the prequels. To recap, Jedi Master Mace Windu leads a
09:11strike team into the Geonosis arena to rescue Anakin, Obi-Wan and Padme, only to be met by an
09:17army of battle droids. An all-out brawl ensues and many Jedi are slaughtered, with the survivors
09:22being rescued by Yoda, who whisks them away with some rather handy gunships. Despite hundreds of Jedi
09:27entering the arena, there's only a handful of them left when Yoda shows up, meaning a vast majority of
09:32what was supposed to be the most formidable fighting force in the galaxy was killed within minutes.
09:36Even worse, Mace tells Yoda before the battle,
09:39I'll take what Jedi we have left, implying the ones in the arena were all the Jedi that remained.
09:44Weirdly though, the rest of the prequels failed to convey how catastrophic it was that so many Jedi
09:49died in such a needless manner. I'm afraid to say there's not much we can do about this now,
09:54but let's just hope that Palpatine somehow doesn't return.
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