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00:00The Star Wars franchise has been around for a whopping 45 years, with 11 live-action films
00:04hitting cinemas during that time, plus the animated Clone Wars feature. That's quite
00:09a lot of movie, and yet there still hasn't been enough screen time to give every tiny
00:12detail the attention it deserves. A recent Reddit thread discussed that very subject,
00:17with Star Wars fans bringing up various details that were either explored too little or not
00:21explored at all. I'm Emile from WhatCulture and these are 10 Star Wars details that are
00:26almost 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
00:44of their charred corpses after returning from a chat with Obi-Wan. Though Luke is visibly
00:49shaken when he discovers what has happened to Owen and Beru, he immediately sets out on
00:53the path to becoming a Jedi Knight, and the impact that their deaths surely had on him
00:56is never mentioned again. Luke seems sadder about Obi-Wan's death, a
01:00guy who he barely knows, than he does about the deaths of a couple who for all intents
01:05and purposes were his real parents. With their deaths being so brutal, you'd imagine the
01:09image of their crispy bodies would gnaw at his insides constantly, especially considering
01:14he never got to say goodbye, or thank you, or anything. From a certain point of view,
01:19it's quite cold.
01:219. How Palpatine Built A Star Destroyer Fleet Without Anybody Noticing
01:25How… how do I even… let's do it anyway. Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker did such a bad
01:32job of explaining things that you had to go and play Fortnite if you wanted more context
01:35of the story. Even when the movie did explain things, these explanations were lazy, such
01:40as Poe's regularly-memed line about how Palpatine has risen from the grave.
01:44Somehow, Palpatine has returned. Thank you, JJ. Clays things up.
01:49Something else the movie doesn't explain is how exactly Palpatine managed to build a massive
01:53fleet of souped-up Star Destroyers, a hugely important detail that the movie glosses over
01:57entirely.
01:58Where did he get the materials? How did he equip each ship with the planet-killing laser?
02:02How on Exegol did he finance this whole venture? With this fleet being the centrepiece of Palpatine's
02:08plan, it's unforgivable that the movie doesn't even try to explain it. And though extra backstory
02:13is available for those who want to do some homework, it's a total head scratch for folks
02:17who only watch the films.
02:198. Droids Can Possess Human Levels of Sentience Some of the most beloved characters in Star Wars
02:26are droids, with the likes of C-3PO, R2-D2 and BB-8 delivering many highlight moments in
02:31the movies they appear in.
02:32Despite this popularity though, something the movies never really discuss is that droids
02:36can possess incredibly high levels of sentience and yet they're often treated as emotionless,
02:41disposable 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
02:52him behind.
02:573PO, 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
03:10must have felt.
03:11Though the concept of droid rights was touched on in Solo A Star Wars Story, it's an issue
03:15the movies have never done justice, despite the crucial role various droids have played
03:19in almost every single film.
03:22Droid rights now!
03:237.
03:24Ewoks are highly skilled fighters.
03:26Mention the Ewoks to a casual Star Wars fan and they'll probably start talking about
03:30how adorable they are, which is fair enough.
03:32Just look at their fluffy little faces.
03:34But look, something people never talk about and something that if their reputation as lovable
03:39plush toys is anything to go by, the movies haven't made clear, is that the Ewoks are among
03:43the most skilled fighters in the Star Wars galaxy.
03:47Just look at how they completely outclass the technologically superior Empire in Return of
03:51the Jedi.
03:52They coordinate their ambush outside the shield generator perfectly, starting off by using
03:56R2 and 3PO as a distraction and following this up by forcing the Imperial troopers to
04:01split up and run into the woods, right where the Ewoks want them.
04:04And that's not to mention how bloodthirsty they are, with the little beasts fully intending
04:08to dine on Han until 3PO's magic convinces them otherwise.
04:12The Ewoks look fairly harmless and the majority of their scenes are played in a lighthearted way,
04:16which greatly distracts from their brutality and combat efficiency.
04:20Teddy bears, they most certainly are not.
04:236.
04:24The destruction of the Death Star brought the Empire's followers closer together.
04:27The destruction of the first Death Star at the end of A New Hope was a huge victory
04:32for the Rebel Alliance.
04:33But if you look at it from the Empire's point of view, then it was nothing short of an act
04:36of terrorism.
04:37The movies never touch on the fact Luke murdered millions of innocent people when he blew up the
04:41planet killing machine.
04:42All those janitors, technicians, what about the chefs?
04:45Who were only working for the Empire because it was a job or because they were too scared to leave?
04:49Further still, it's highly likely that this mass murder actually brought people from the Empire
04:53closer together and possibly even galvanised the additional support for the Empire across the galaxy.
04:59Though this angle was somewhat explored in 2017's Star Wars Battlefront II game, the movies never
05:04take the time to ponder such interesting details with the ramifications of the Rebels victories
05:09never being looked at from the opposing point of view.
05:11It almost makes you want a Taken 2 style spin-off where the father of a murdered Death Star employee
05:16hunts down Luke to enact his revenge.
05:18Go on Disney, you know you want to.
05:20The Jedi are prominently featured throughout the entire Skywalker saga, from Obi-Wan and
05:29Anakin in the prequels to Luke in the originals and Rey in the sequels.
05:34This ends up giving off the impression that there's a Jedi on every street corner, making
05:38it easy to forget that in actual fact they are mythical beings and that the vast majority
05:42of people in the galaxy have never actually seen one.
05:49As we follow one of these lightsaber-wielding heroes for each of the nine core movies, it
05:53does feel they're
05:56well
05:59extinct for the next six movies.
06:02Forced users are divided into two camps, the Jedi and the Sith, or the light and the
06:11dark.
06:12The movies draw a firm line between these two camps, telling us that the dark side is evil
06:16and that light, well, is right.
06:19Jedi want that on a t-shirt.
06:20While most on-screen evidence points to this being true, a notion that isn't fleshed out
06:24is that the dark side in isolation isn't necessarily evil.
06:28Rather it's the users of the dark side who abuse its power for their own selfish or chaotic
06:32intentions.
06:33Look at someone like Count Dooku.
06:35Though he wields the dark side of the force, he hasn't let emotions like anger and hatred
06:40corrupt him, like they have for so many other Sith.
06:43Instead, he uses his dark side abilities with control.
06:46He's clearly far more level-headed than the likes of Vader and the Emperor, proof that
06:50dark side users need not become mustache-twirling megalomaniacs.
06:53And then there's Dark Vectivus, who also practiced the dark side but never let it consume him
06:58and could save off that destructive temptation.
07:00Despite what the movies might tell us, wielding the dark side doesn't automatically mean that
07:04a person is evil or that they will always succumb to the lure of power.
07:08It just depends on the person.
07:103.
07:11How Maz Kanata acquired Luke's lightsaber
07:14When Maz Kanata pulls Luke Skywalker's blue lightsaber from a box and hands it to Finn
07:18in The Force Awakens, Han Solo asks her where she got it.
07:21Her response?
07:22A good question, for another time.
07:24In hindsight, her refusal to give an explanation feels startlingly similar to Poe's
07:28somehow Palpatine returned.
07:30Sorry, I can't even say it anymore.
07:32And though this particular detail arguably isn't as important, it's nonetheless frustrating
07:37that the movies never reveal how Maz acquired a lightsaber that was presumed lost deep within
07:41Cloud City.
07:42Some fans have headcanonized that because Maz was a pirate queen, she acquired it via her
07:46connections to the smuggling world.
07:47After 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
07:56Mugnaught found it on Cloud City and kept it from being destroyed.
07:59But as for how it made its way into Maz's hands, that's a good question for another time.
08:042.
08:05Dismemberment makes Force users less powerful
08:07Though the whole midichlorian thing has been largely swept under the rug in recent
08:11years, it's still part of Star Wars canon.
08:14Midichlorians which live inside the body's cells are linked to Force potential, so the
08:18higher the midichlorian count, the more Force potential an individual will have.
08:22So what would happen if that count was suddenly reduced?
08:25In a 2005 interview, George Lucas himself spoke about that idea, discussing how dismemberment
08:30would affect a Jedi or a Sith's Force abilities, stating Anakin actually became less powerful
08:35after Obi-Wan chopped him into bits.
08:37Lucas went on to explain that the Emperor viewed Luke as a primo version of Anakin, simply
08:41because his body was more intact, and this was why he offered the younger Skywalker the
08:45chance to join him.
08:46Despite this idea coming straight from the horse's mouth, not a single Star Wars film has
08:50ever delved into it, which is bizarre considering how the franchise's two main characters both
08:55suffer dismemberment at various points.
08:581.
08:59The Severity of the Republic's Geonosis Defeat
09:01The arena battle in Attack of the Clones is a terrific spectacle, but the ramifications
09:05of its outcome are severely underplayed throughout the rest of the prequels.
09:09To recap, Jedi Master Mace Windu leads a strike team into the Geonosis arena to rescue Anakin,
09:14Obi-Wan and Padme, only to be met by an army of battle droids.
09:18An all-out brawl ensues and many Jedi are slaughtered, with the survivors being rescued
09:22by Yoda, who whisks them away with some rather handy gunships.
09:26Despite hundreds of Jedi entering the arena, there's only a handful of them left when Yoda
09:30shows up, meaning a vast majority of what was supposed to be the most formidable fighting
09:33force in the galaxy was killed within minutes.
09:36Even worse, Mace tells Yoda before the battle, I'll take what Jedi we have left, implying
09:41the 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
09:48Jedi died in such a needless manner.
09:50I'm afraid to say there's not much we can do about this now, but let's just hope that
09:55Palpatine somehow doesn't return.
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