Timeline for Why did Luke not know what Yoda looked like before going to Dagobah?
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| Feb 19, 2017 at 13:18 | vote | accept | Olaf | ||
| Dec 1, 2015 at 2:06 | comment | added | Thunderforge | @Olaf Minor nitpick, but the remote communication was only blue in the prequels. Leia's message in A New Hope was blue-tinted, but definitely in color. Technology advances! | |
| Mar 24, 2015 at 9:54 | comment | added | Paul D. Waite | @Olaf: “Luke must have talked to Chewbacca who told him the story of the destruction of his home planet” — yeah, people really love talking about when they were genocided. | |
| Nov 25, 2013 at 6:25 | comment | added | Olaf | They don't have Internet, but they have FTL remote communication in 3D, albeit only in blue. And R2D2 could record Leias call for help. And even if Leia has been kept ignorant, Luke must have talked to Chewbacca who told him the story of the destruction of his home planet where he was in personal close contact with Yoda. "What did he look like?", asked Luke, and Chewie told him "like a green dwarf with big ears." That alone would have sufficed. | |
| Nov 25, 2013 at 1:10 | comment | added | DVK-on-Ahch-To | Galaxy Far Far Away Note 4 | |
| Nov 25, 2013 at 0:04 | comment | added | Lèse majesté | Star Wars occupies a very strange technological landscape. They have FTL travel/communication and extremely advanced robots with strong AI, but they don't have the internet or P2P. Otherwise, he could have just downloaded a torrented copy of Wookieepedia on his Galaxy Nexus and learned what Yoda looked like. | |
| Nov 24, 2013 at 21:56 | comment | added | K-H-W | @Olaf - Maybe.. But, I get the impression it was a systematic purge, attempting to wipe the Jedi from both reality and history. Luke had a lot more to do during that time; the Rebel Alliance was still not in control, and, as you see on Hoth, he was acting, to some degree, as one of their soldiers. I think, had he had the time, he could have found answers; he just didn't have enough spare time to dig for information that had been suppressed. Also, Leia was kept intentionally ignorant of many things while growing up to avoid drawing attention. (See the EU books about her childhood.) Just MHO. | |
| Nov 24, 2013 at 21:39 | comment | added | Olaf | @KHW - And still it is very unlikely that all information has been lost. For example, Leia grew up as the adopted daughter of senator Organa who knew Yoda personally. She must have heard and read the story that shaped the galaxy many times, and she had three years to tell Luke. And yet he didn't know anything at all about the old master of the Jedi. This is not about teaching, just plain basic information. | |
| Nov 24, 2013 at 20:05 | comment | added | K-H-W | @Olaf - Yes, but Kenobi was dead -- who (or what) was left to teach him? The purge had eliminated the majority of Jedi culture, as it apparently had been intended to; see the whole scene in ANH with Vader being mocked for his adherence to a forgotten 'religion.' | |
| Nov 24, 2013 at 19:56 | comment | added | Olaf | There were three years between the destruction of the first death star and the time on Hoth. That's more than enough time. And while pictures are never explicitly mentioned, there are means of recording (3D, even), so it is unlikely that absolutely nothing survived. | |
| Nov 24, 2013 at 19:53 | history | answered | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten | CC BY-SA 3.0 |