• Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    https://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Original-Trilogy-vs-The-Prequels-inconsistencies-retcons-plot-holes-and-discrepancies/id/90199

    Here’s just one breakdown I’ve found by googling. Some of these can be justified by making up theories of characters lying or making mistakes, others are clearly for the fact that they forgot details from the OT while they were writing the PT and contradicted themselves.

    Potholes aside, my favourite dumb thing is that in the OT Obi-Wan was wearing farmers clothes to blend in, you can see uncle Owen wearing matching clothes. But the in PT that’s apparently the Jedi uniform. Not very smart to hide out in Tatooine wearing Jedi uniform, going by the name Kenobi, and looking after a kid called Skywalker. R2D2 didn’t think to mention Anakin to Luke? Or is Skywalker the “Smith” of that galaxy’s surnames?

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      13 hours ago

      Thanks !

      Regarding that very last part of your comment (about R2D2), his and C-3PO’s memory is erased at the end of EPIII by orders of Sen. Organa, so I think that’d explain it.

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        10 hours ago

        C-3PO had his memory wiped, but I don’t think R2D2 did. At one point George Lucas said that the whole saga was a story told by R2D2.

        Regardless, why did so many characters that had personally worked alongside R2D2 act like it was just a random droid? Robo-racism?