Jedikali - Fan Of Star Wars And Astronomy

Peter: Mr. Stark I need a rocket ship ASAP

Tony: what, why?? Where are you going???

Peter, crying: It’s the Curiosity Rover’s birthday and he has to sing happy birthday all by himself on Mars and thats sad

Tony, already building a rocket: Say no more

Best list of predictions I’ve seen for Ep IX!

12 Things that are definitely 100% confirmed for Star Wars, Episode IX: 1.) Stars! 2.) War! 3.) Lightsaber battles! 4.) Epic classical music! 5.) Big ass space ships! 6.) Small space fighters! 7.) The Force! 8.) Planets! 9.) Explosions! 10.) Droids! 11.) Cute and not-so-cute critters! 12.) The characters that have not died in the previous movie to show up again!

dang we got ourselves a genuine oracle of delphi over here :O

I’ll still be here too; I support Canon Ships, I do enjoy the occasional well written non Canon Ships too but I prefer Canon Ships, and after fighting the opinions of family, I have learned to not voice my Reylo Love to one family member because they are still struggling with the Storytelling Choices in the ST so far, so I’m not going anywhere.

I personally think that if Reylo becomes canon, the fandom will be totally abuzz after IX but the activity will die down once the DVD and all the supplemental materials have been released. Casual shippers will lose interest once there is nothing to anticipate or speculate about. Part of the reason this fandom is so active is the discourse and speculation over spoilers, news, leaks, etc. Once all is said and done, people will squeal and swoon for a couple of months and then they will move on.

Probably, yep. I will be one of the holdouts. (ง’̀-‘́)ง

*gears turn and spin*

I agree that Obi-Wan just didn’t sit there and twiddle his thumbs for nineteen years and Luke did refer to him as ‘a strange old hermit’ which says Obi-Wan did interact with the local moisture farmers and maybe even the local, larger, settlement.

Now my Muse is all excited because of the suggestion that Obi-Wan was spending some of his time taking out bounties and stealing from the Hutts to make some money to survive and terrifying the Tusken Raiders out of their minds.

I think it was implied that Obi-Wan found a way to tell Bail where he was living because R2 was heading in the right direction for his hut.

*new headcanon not quite inserted but is found acceptable*

“And then Obi-wan went off to live as a reclusive hermit in the Jundland Wastes until Luke showed up with R2 and C-3PO.”

…even beyond that deleted scene where Luke goes into town and encounters Ben Kenobi hanging out with the locals and acting kooky, I don’t buy this interpretation. I mean, this is Obi-wan. Not only does he attract friends, allies, and animals of various sizes and levels of terrifying to his side like a Disney princess, he’s also the universe’s favorite punching bag. No way those years were full of uninterrupted contemplation, solitude, and remorse.

For starters, that hut he’s living in when Luke first meets him? Yeah, that’s probably residence number 23. Better-built than residences 1-3 and 5 (we don’t talk about number 4), simpler than 8-14, and made with less emotional attachment than 15-20. They’ve been destroyed by everything from roving bantha herds to crashing space ships to that one flash flood, and Obi-wan has finally made peace with the fact that this is his life. If he hadn’t gone with Luke, his current house was due to be struck by a meteor within the month.

Next, he is almost certainly friends with all the local animals. All of them. He’s been on this planet for almost two decades, they’ve all met him, he’s been Adopted by pretty much everything that lives in communal groups, and he goes and hangs out with them when he’s feeling lonely, because he can’t keep a good eye on Luke’s safety if he’s too depressed to move.

Not to mention the fact that, in canon, not only does Leia know who he is, she knows which planet to send R2D2 to in order to contact him. Obi-wan might not be part of the Rebellion, but they know about him - at the very least he kept in contact with Bail Organa.

And like… it’s Obi-wan. On a planet riddled with, in his own words, “scum and villainy.” Like hell he’s managed to spend over two decades keeping his nose out of other peoples’ business or just allowing shit to go on because he’s in hiding. Just saying, that man’s taken down a sizeable number of bandits, thieves, smugglers, and ne’er-do-wells, he’s probably living off either bounty rewards or credits he’s somehow skimmed from the Hutts or something he shouldn’t be doing, because age may bring wisdom, but this is Obi-wan and there’s a reason he and Anakin were friends.

The Tusken raiders are a superstitious lot, but I am willing to put down solid money that they ran off not because of the howling noise but because they recognized that pointy-hooded robe, and, boy howdy, they have learned. Even if that human ain’t fighting back, you don’t mess with him, he’s cursed, do not engage, repeat, do not engage.

And just basically, there’s no way Obi-wan was off living by himself and miserable and atoning and all that. I’m sure he had every intention of doing so when he started, but I am equally sure that plan lasted exactly as long as it took for his first self-made house to collapse while he was fighting off a local gang and screaming about being retired.

Why not? Sorta stuck in traffic