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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Replying to @arthur_affect @della_morte_ and
which it probably would have to be, if the Republic wanted credibility. the former rebellion would have a vested interest in making the circumstances of the empire clear, especially in the context of Luke reviving the discredited Jedi
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And in the context of him using it in that line to Rey it makes extra sense - it's his lesson about how "the legacy of the Jedi is hubris, folly and failure" It's hard to fail worse than to fight a whole damn war directly taking orders from the Sith Lord you're hunting
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