The Book of Boba Fett (spoilers)

[Zardnaar]

I agree with Morrus. When a Jedi saves a member of the Senate, that would be galactic news. There would be movies about the Jedi. Books. All kinds of media. There is no way people wouldn't know about them. And certainly no way they'd think the Force wasn't real just a couple decades after they were nearly wiped out. Look at the MCU.....people recognize them on the street. They are all over the news.

The media we consume is focused in the Jedi but what have we actually seen?

The Jedi mostly interact with the powerful eg rulers and on the battlefield.

They're like the SAS how many people even in a warzone actually interact with them?

So they're famous but real information is very short. There was 10000 around half died in the clone wars.

Dooku has a quote onscreen of 10000 world's joining them with your support. That's just one leader of the CIS.

Off screen there's less than one Jedi for every 10000 world's.

What is known is mostly myth and legends before the purge.

After the purge around 200 survive.

Then you have a totalitarian regimes burying knowledge of them and slandering them.

Anyone with real knowledge of the jedi keep their mouths shut if they know what's good for them.

By Rey's time there's virtually none left Luke's academy failed and it's been 50 years since Jedi in any numbers have existed.

So 200 surviving Jedi 2 million+ world's and they're in decline and in hiding.

Star Wars millennials know virtually nothing the vast majority of Gen X and older never met one and only know the pop culture stuff and those perceptions still filtered through 20 years of propaganda burying them.

The clones that served with them serve the empire along with most of the political elite who may have met them.

That leaves those reasonably few civilians from the clone wars and the occasional random on Coruscant or elsewhere that met one 20+ years ago.

The Empire didn't bury knowledge of the Jedi existing but onscreen it's shown that pre purge the Jedi weren't universally popular either.

A lightsaber is recognizable but the person seeing it probably can't tell you much beyond that.

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

Face it, it just adds to other screw-ups by Lucas when he added to the original trilogy. The prequel trilogy ruined the mystery of the Jedi and invalidated a lot of small stuff of the originals, and a lot of what is now Legends material made it worse. It is time to pretend that a couple of those quotes from the original trilogy just do not exist and a lot of the conflicting timing goes away.

 

[trappedslider]

What I liked about Mando was that it wasn't just nostalgia......Can we please have new Star Wars content?

We tried that, This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

 

[Zardnaar]

We tried that, This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

Much like anything people take that out of context.

There were plenty of original SW stories 1991-2012.

You have to walk that fine line between original content and you're playing in someone else's sandbox.

 

[Zaukrie]

We tried that, This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

Those movies printed money. The studio shouldn't care that a few angry people were loud. Also, they should, you know, write better movies. That last one was an abomination (and wasn't a new story, it was nostalgia all the way).

 

[Zardnaar]

Those movies printed money. The studio shouldn't care that a few angry people were loud. Also, they should, you know, write better movies. That last one was an abomination (and wasn't a new story, it was nostalgia all the way).

They care if they underperform and one lost money. Billion dollar box office looks good but is "only" 500-600 million in revenue and costs can be in the 400-500 million range now (movie 250-300 million range, marketing 100-150).

Solo lost money because the box office vs costs didn't line up. Last I heard all the streamers haven't made money yet.

 

[trappedslider]

Huh, it looks like the editors of the Star Wars wookiepedia removed the long list of "Ruined forever" moments.

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

Temuera Morrison did an interview recently that if it ever turns out Mace WIndu survived, that he wants Boba to take the bounty and hunt him down for revenge.

 

[Ryujin]

I agree with Morrus. When a Jedi saves a member of the Senate, that would be galactic news. There would be movies about the Jedi. Books. All kinds of media. There is no way people wouldn't know about them. And certainly no way they'd think the Force wasn't real just a couple decades after they were nearly wiped out. Look at the MCU.....people recognize them on the street. They are all over the news.

Have they ever shown any form of news media in the Star Wars universe? I admittedly haven't seen the last of the prequel series, but I don't recall anything like that. Even the Senate 'broadcasts' seemed to be largely private.

 

[Zaukrie]

Have they ever shown any form of news media in the Star Wars universe? I admittedly haven't seen the last of the prequel series, but I don't recall anything like that. Even the Senate 'broadcasts' seemed to be largely private.

My assumption is they have news, and movies, and books, and holographic games....and Jedi have been around for how many centuries? They'd be featured in all kinds of media. And, they had all that before the Empire, which only formed a couple decades before the first movies.

I'm not really sure how this is even a discussion. The group has saved planets and societies for centuries. They'd be very well known. But clearly I'm not going to change my mind, and I'm not changing others....so I'm out on this part of the conversation.