That was 30 years before, and someone like Rey has been living as a scavenger on a remote desert planet for decades. Even if she knows the name, do you think she'd know what a Sith is? what danger they pose? Even the very concept of a Jedi was reduced to legend already.
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Replying to @chton @della_morte_ and
Hell, a few years after the fall of the empire, even our dear Mandalorian had never heard of a Jedi or the Force. They're significant in the movies but to the average person in the universe? The lowly scavenger on some remote planet?
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Replying to @chton @Plutoburns and
Rey is studying to become a Jedi, first with Luke, then with Leia in these films. I think it’s okay for the film to assume she’s been informed of these matters without it being explicitly shown onscreen.
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Replying to @della_morte_ @chton and
Assuming she only knows what she knew before the beginning of TFA also ignores everything she learns both on and off screen over the course of the next two films.
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Replying to @della_morte_ @Plutoburns and
Fair, she'll probably have had history lessons, and the Jedi texts have information (how that info is still valid after all that time is a different topic).
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Replying to @chton @della_morte_ and
But I feel they still responded too personally, as if they knew him, not as if they've been told about him in a history lesson.
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Replying to @chton @della_morte_ and
Keep in mind that Rey, at least, knew the name "Darth Sidious" offhand when Luke started quoting cynical /r/StarWars threads in TLJ
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @chton and
Lord, I’d forgotten that Johnson wrote that goofy-ass terrible prequel name into TLJ. The scene as executed is so good (particularly how Hamill sells it), but yeah can’t really complain about them assuming ppl know obscure shit after that lol
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Replying to @della_morte_ @BootlegGirl and
Him using the name "Darth Sidious" actually has pretty big plot implications - back in the prequels the whole deal was the Jedi knew Darth Sidious was the name of the Separatists' mysterious backer and Count Dooku/Darth Tyranus and Darth Maul's mentor
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Replying to @arthur_affect @della_morte_ and
For Luke to casually namedrop "Sidious" to mean "Palpatine" means that whole conspiracy - where Palpatine actually started the war he got all the credit for saving the Republic from - is now public historical knowledge
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And the really interesting thing is no one cares - the people still loyal to the Empire and its ideology are apparently just fine with the fact that the formation of the Empire was based on a giant con job
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Replying to @arthur_affect @della_morte_ and
well, that's how people are, when it gets them power they want see Trump/GOP
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Replying to @Sarcasmorator @arthur_affect and
I was about to say hmmm sounds familiar lol
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