I suddenly realized this all means he has no idea who Palpatine is, either. She's going into the whole scene on Exegol and all she hears is some evil old guy is her grandfather. I mean, she grew up on Jaaku as a scavenger, she's not very well read on the Empire's power structure.
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Replying to @chton @Sarcasmorator and
Palps: "I embody all the Sith before me" Rey: "Who? what's a sith? Who are you? How do I even know you're actually my family?" *sticks a lightsaber through his face*
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Replying to @chton @BootlegGirl and
Classic JJ Abrams then. "I am KHAN." "Nice to meet you, Khan." Seriously, that name means nothing in the context of that story.
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Replying to @BetaDecayPlus @BootlegGirl and
But it means something to the AUDIENCE and as we know evoking paratext emotion is more important than narrative
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Replying to @Plutoburns @BetaDecayPlus and
So, I had less problem with that in Wrath of Khan than I do with TRoS. Because in the movie, people either already know about him from their history books, or they react as if it's any other name for a dangerous person. Rey responds as if she's known that name all her life.
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Replying to @chton @Plutoburns and
It's fine using a character the audience knows in order to evoke emotion, but in the case of TRoS the characters respond like the audience does, not like an actual in-world character would. They genuinely respond as if they've watched the original trilogy.
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Replying to @chton @Plutoburns and
I don’t understand this criticism. Why would people not know who the Senator who took control of the Republic as a dictator and ruled it as a fascist Empire for decades was? What evidence is there to suggest people wouldn’t know who he is?
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Replying to @della_morte_ @chton and
I think this is an audience issue. WE had no idea whi the emperor was in the OT, he was a shadowy hands of manager with no name In universe, maybe he supresses his name but it wasnt so long ago people would have forgot
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Replying to @Plutoburns @della_morte_ and
Then again, apparently a 1000 year police force/religion can become myth in 20 years
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Replying to @Plutoburns @della_morte_ and
This REALLY isn't out of bounds, especially with a active propaganda effort dedicated to erasing that memory and/or tarnishing their reputation.
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Yeah to be fair Lucas wrote that conversation with Qui-Gon and Anakin in TPM to establish that for most people Jedi are mythic figures surrounded by a lot of urban legends and bullshit
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Sarcasmorator and
The shift in perception after the Empire isn't that they never existed so much as they were a cult of charlatans, which is the attitude Han takes toward Ben and Gen. Motti takes toward Vader in ANH
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