Continuity: What Did Star Wars Get Right?

[green_garnish]

Lots and lots of examples of continuity errors in Star Wars. What did the movies get right that people have complained about?

"I haven't gone by the name of Obi-Wan since, oh, before you were born."

Which is something they totally got right, but people want to time it down to the second.

[SuperiorIronman]

In Return of the Jedi he (Palpatine) was just meant to be a really old evil wizard which is why the then much younger Ian McDiramid looked the way he did, it's just sci-fi old person make up. Episode 3 revealed he was electrocuted which melted his face and despite this people to this day insist that dark side corruption is a thing. The films never said he was old or at least gave an exact date before it was revealed to be a deformity and the deformity would be inserted into Episode 5 meaning that this appearance is meant to be what was shown in 6. This would however inform his old age makeup for Episode 9 which made people think someone melted him once he was rejuvenated but was once again meant to be old person makeup which is ironic given Ian actually is old enough to properly portray him without it. Palpatine's makeup basically circled around to both explanations weirdly enough.

[ChrisIII]

I think at one point Lucas considered Palpatine to have 'naturally' aged into the ROTJ form-if you look at Palpatine's AOTC look, he actually looks somewhat more pale and older than he does in Revenge of the Sith's first act.

Maybe Palpatine went to the Star Wars equavilent of this during the Clone Wars. https://backtothefuture.fandom.com/w...enation_clinic

[CTTT]

Funny enough, I just watched ESB. Some people feel the Vader/Luke scene "No, Luke, I am your father" felt way out of left field but to my surprise it actually wasn't. The Palpatine/Vader scene before where Palpatine name drops Anakin's name and tells Vader to search his feelings helps lead into that reveal later. I thought that little scene was really well done. You could see the humanity of Anakin peaking through a little when telling Palpatine he can turn Luke to the dark side.

[ChrisIII]

Anakin's name and the search your feelings line does not appear in the pre-2004 versions.

[CTTT]

Anakin's name and the search your feelings line does not appear in the pre-2004 versions.

Really, that's interesting. I knew that GL likes to tinker with the movies, so makes sense that was something that was added in. In this case, I feel that addition makes more sense than it does leaving it out.

[green_garnish]

Funny enough, I just watched ESB. Some people feel the Vader/Luke scene "No, Luke, I am your father" felt way out of left field but to my surprise it actually wasn't. The Palpatine/Vader scene before where Palpatine name drops Anakin's name and tells Vader to search his feelings helps lead into that reveal later. I thought that little scene was really well done. You could see the humanity of Anakin peaking through a little when telling Palpatine he can turn Luke to the dark side.

I would argue that Uncle Owen's statement of "That's what I'm afraid of" showed much earlier where the story was going.

[CosmiComic]

I would argue that Uncle Owen's statement of "That's what I'm afraid of" showed much earlier where the story was going.

I assumed that was based on when Anakin had still been "killed" by Vader