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_ @Plutoburns and
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
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 @BootlegGirl and
For all we know Luke and Obi Wan only had the clothes they were wearing, washed them en route and found Lando's old clothes to wear in the meantime. That's the explanation I'm going with anyway.
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Lol can you imagine these two scruffy Tatooine guys sullying Lando's fine silk PJs (with matching cape)
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