New Star Wars is High Republic?

[Zardnaar]

John Campea reporting on this.


The high republic is 400 years before the PT. Yoda would be around along with the rule of 2 Sith..

Original timeframe as well. Legends had the Old Republic and Legacy and a bit set 1000 years before the PT.

Dec 2022.

 

[Eltab]

At least Disney does better when they have to reach Lucas' work as the 'end state' of their movie, than when they have no pre-defined parameters or goal. This concept brings its own discipline to the Disney staff.

PS: I predict that 'young Yoda' (the real Yoda) will be the merchandising hit of the film.

 

[Pauper]

Not sure I buy the idea that Yoda would only be a Knight during the time frame of the movie. In Episode V, Yoda says to Luke, "For eight hundred years have I trained Jedi." The idea that he'd have been training Jedi for over three centuries and still only be a Knight seems unlikely, even though there's no canon source that says exactly when Yoda became a Jedi Master. I mean, I suppose he could have fallen foul of some nasty tenure arguments at the Jedi Academy on Coruscant and had to wait a long time to get tracked, but that doesn't seem likely.

Also, while I'm not the biggest Star Wars fan or lore guy out there, I can't say I've ever heard of the 'High Republic' era before. If they just want to say that the 'High Republic' era is 400 years before the prequels, that's cool and all, and it's not like there's a whole lot of other activity going on at that time that's already been established (the only thing I could find with a quick Google search is that Yaddle, a character of the same species as Yoda who was on the Jedi High Council during 'The Phantom Menace', was born in 509 BBY (at least according to the Star Wars Character Encyclopedia), and would arguably make a much better 'young Yoda-like character' to be a main character).

I feel like the time-frame is probably less important than getting the story away from the 'legendary' original series characters and established with new characters and stories. In a way, it's oddly similar to Star Trek, in that the TV series have been fine with going in different directions and pursuing different stories, but the movies are so fixated on telling you all about James T. Kirk that they just can't pick up any momentum in any other direction.

Time will tell, I guess.

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Pauper

 

[Zardnaar]

Jedi Knights train padawans.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Jedi Knights train padawans.

For hundreds of years without becoming a master?

 

[Zardnaar]

For hundreds of years without becoming a master?

It's Disney.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

I can’t even begin to guess what that is supposed to me, but please don’t try to explain it.

 

[Umbran]

For hundreds of years without becoming a master?

You are thinking like a person who lives the span of their life in a century.

Consider that, as a Jedi ages, maybe they get more wise. Maybe they get more powerful in the ways of the Force. But... dude, an old Jedi's knees still ache in the morning. They get the twinge in the lower back after doing that double back flip in a duel, just like we do shoveling snow...

You have maybe half a century of adulthood to reach the pinnacle of your achievement and performance before your biology slows you down, and limits your ability to do work in the field.

Yoda? Not so much. Making him a Jedi Master before he starts to slow down is like promoting Kirk to Admiral too early. Where a human has a couple or few decades of useful field work, Yoda wold have centuries.

Another hot take - Yoda's wisdom took a long time, and many, many, very bad mistakes to accumulate. Maybe he was made a Master, and demoted, and promoted again, over and over, for centuries.

 

[Tyler Do'Urden]

Another hot take - Yoda's wisdom took a long time, and many, many, very bad mistakes to accumulate. Maybe he was made a Master, and demoted, and promoted again, over and over, for centuries.

In college I ran an SWRPG campaign that was set 800 years before the films... and the PCs (all Jedi) encountered a very reckless, but very talented young Jedi Knight... named Yoda. He was a troubled, berserk goblin with a lightsaber. (If you go by the stats in the SWRPG revised book, in his prime Yoda would have had a 20 DEX and 18 CON) The masters just shook their heads about their mistake in "training that one", and part of the PCs task was to keep him from falling to the Dark Side.

So I obviously like this take. Have his wisdom be hard-earned from experience.

 

[Umbran]

He was a troubled, berserk goblin with a lightsaber.

...I think I want to play a paladin like this....