Palpatine was the Emperor of the entire galaxy, come on You're conflating different things - the REASON the Jedi faded into myth and legend is that he deliberately replaced them with a massive personality cult centered on himself
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Replying to @arthur_affect @chton and
I mean tbf it's not clear how much most of the galaxy noticed. Like we get a lot of variance between "the Empire is right overhead!" and "we are a peaceful village who probably have had relatively limited outside contact for *centuries*"
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Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and
This gets back in to those earlier ANH dialogue inconsistencies with later installments, where it initially was unclear how powerful the empire was or how far its reach truly extended.
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Replying to @dreamingnoctis @loudpenitent and
"It's all such a long way from here." I mean, metaphorically, the Empire was always America or the UK, and Tattooine is very, very intentionally The Middle East from Lawrence of Arabia. Obviously, in a pre-jet fighter time, people in the Middle East might have said that
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @dreamingnoctis and
Which brings me back to my big gripe about how Lucas changed the setting and then Abrams changed it further in the same direction. I always imagined that Tattooine was days from even the nearest outer rim world, Alderaan probably the closest "Imperial" planet
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @dreamingnoctis and
It doesn't actually feel like all that much time passes on the trip to Alderaan in the movie, even taking into account that they went with Han because he said he had the fastest ship in the galaxy I mean nobody changes their clothes or anything
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Replying to @arthur_affect @dreamingnoctis and
Well, that's a movie budget thing :P But I figured that was a day and a half, maybe a day, and Alderaan was like, the closest significant world.
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and
Like where I used to live in Wisconsin, saying "I need to go to Alderaan" is like saying "I need to go to Chicago," and Luke saying "I can take you as far as Anchorhead" and then eventually agreeing to Mos Eisley is first saying "the Greyhound stop" and then "Madison"
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @dreamingnoctis and
Ah when you said "even the closest Outer Rim planet was days away" I thought you meant that was *closer* than Alderaan
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl and
I am kind of tickled at the idea of the Dane County Regional Airport outside of Madison being described as a "wretched hive of scum and villainy"
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Although if you needed to charter a private flight out of Madison to Chicago because you can't fly commercial due to being wanted by the FBI you might indeed have to pay an upfront fee consisting of all the money you got for selling your car (and the other half on completion)
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