Timeline for How can Maz Kanata have had this item "for ages"?
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| Jun 15, 2018 at 18:45 | history | edited | ScottS | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Corrected some grammar and added link to video clip
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| Nov 29, 2017 at 18:13 | comment | added | ThePopMachine | @ScottS, I know, you're right. Please don't take it too seriously. I'm just into the debate. | |
| Nov 29, 2017 at 18:06 | comment | added | ScottS | @ThePopMachine Your last comment was highly ungracious. We may differ in opinion, but the logic with respect to Maz's age, and even the time travel aspect that the link shows as at least plausible in the broader Star Wars universe, indicates some support and reasoning, as opposed to your mockery of Han being Snoke out of spite for not liking my question. So there is a level of reasoning beyond mere random, preposterous theory. | |
| Nov 29, 2017 at 17:35 | comment | added | ThePopMachine | @ScottS, I have a theory. Han Solo is Snoke from the future. Hundreds of years from "now" he travels back in time and takes on the appearance and persona of "Han" so that be can manipulate Luke from the inside and then father his own apprentice. I mean, it could be, right? | |
| Nov 29, 2017 at 17:30 | comment | added | ThePopMachine | @ScottS, furthermore, your best alternative theory involves time travel, which, as far as I know, has no precedent in movie canon and would be universe altering if it were the case. So it's not going to happen anytime soon. When you can alter things with time travel, the stakes are gone and you ruin the ability to tell stories of galactic scale. | |
| Nov 29, 2017 at 17:27 | comment | added | ThePopMachine | @ScottS: Except that you yourself point out that it can't be more than 30 years. So it is clearly hyperbole. You say it would be obvious for a human, but it's not obvious for her, but you have a clear fact about how long it can be, which makes it the interpretation obvious. What possible reason is there not accept the simplest (and obviously right explanation) that it's just the way people talk and it's less than 30 years? Your Occam's razor must be very dull. | |
| Nov 29, 2017 at 16:20 | comment | added | ScottS | @ThePopMachine If we were not dealing with a creature that lived so long, but a mere human who does not live for ages, I would not have even questioned that it, realizing that it was clearly was hyperbole. But I cannot assume that from a creature so ancient. | |
| Nov 29, 2017 at 16:18 | comment | added | ScottS | @ThePopMachine And I was amazed it was getting as many down votes as it was :-). From my perspective, a character who is literally "ages" old (living for over a millennia) would not necessarily use that term in such a "loose expression" fashion, since those "younger" races would more likely tend to take her literally (since she does have such a long life span). It may well be that it was written in to "orient the audience" to it not being a recent acquisition, but the writers could have used "decades" as well to convey the same idea and place it within what would be the expected time frame. | |
| Nov 29, 2017 at 15:50 | comment | added | ThePopMachine | I can't believe this has so many upvotes. Upvoting for a question requesting an explanation for a strict interpretation of the expression "for ages" shows a completely lack of understanding of how natural language works. And this is particularly the case for "ages" because it is not a well-defined term to begin with. It is so obviously just a loose expression. It is an also obvious that this line was thrown in to orient the audience to the fact she didn't come by it recently lest it seem like a massive coincidence or somehow involve Luke's recent journey or something. | |
| Nov 28, 2017 at 16:25 | history | edited | ScottS | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added time travel speculation
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| Nov 28, 2017 at 16:09 | vote | accept | ScottS | ||
| Nov 28, 2017 at 14:57 | comment | added | ScottS | @Bat I disagree. Just because the answer given is a possible one based on English language use, other plausible answers might have been: error, her language difference (meaning of 'age' to her), time travel (i.e. lightsaber was cast back in time and Maz literally had it for ages) | |
| Nov 28, 2017 at 14:43 | comment | added | Doctor Doom | This question should be moved to English.SE.. | |
| Nov 28, 2017 at 5:40 | answer | added | amflare | timeline score: 24 | |
| Nov 28, 2017 at 5:28 | history | asked | ScottS | CC BY-SA 3.0 |