This is a necro and a half. lol wow, the weird uninformed opinionated garbage I used to write on these forums. Boy was I an idiot a year ago. Let's just say a year on my opinion of the film and it's director has swung completely 180. I'm extremely excited, I think he is doing an awesome job and my original sentiment was without correct knowledge too. Ah well... Oh and btw my opinion of Lucas was also wrong. He decided he wanted to retire, no other reason to it, part of that was selling off his company. I may not of liked it, but it seems Disney is looking after it just fine. Keep in mind since John Lasseter took charge, the company isn't the "evil nasty force" everyone thinks it is anymore. The guy in my opinion has put in enough influence to turn the company in a good direction, even though the influence is limited. But you won't see me going off to buy their products any time soon, heh. Kind of self evident I am a flippant person, but I always turn in favor of what meets my ethical standards. Which is why these days I no longer jump to conclusions on things.
What the hell was that? "The Jedi the Dark Side it was all real" Wut? The Rebels won and only 20 years later everyone has no idea what he fuck happened?
Even during the original trilogy, no one was aware of the existence of jedi and sith, the only ones were luke, obi wan, yoda, darth vader and the emperor (han and leia then found out). I don't think she's asking if the stories of the rebellion are true, she's just asking if the jedi and sith are... which very few people knew about back in the original trilogy.
Well that depends Did Luke make the new Jedi academy, or did he simply go all Obi-Wan and hide away as a hermit in this movie Who knows
A whole generation passed from the time of the fall of the republic to the rise of the empire. If the kids are not taught of the existence of something, they grow up not knowing it existed. 20 to 25 years is surprisingly apparently enough time to wipe the knowledge of an event from public conscious. In the Original Trilogy it was very apparent that the only people who knew the Jedi and the Sith were real, in particular Jedi as opposed to Sith as far fewer knew the Sith even existed at that time, since they never showed their faces for a thousand years prior. Were all by that point in their late 40s or older, of whom the vast majority were either high ranking members of the Empire, the Imperial Navy, or leaders of the Rebel Alliance. Of those who were not, they didn't talk about it or care about it, such as in the case of the Hutts. Thing is, no one talked about. Either because they didn't care, were too scared to, or because they thought that since the Jedi are all dead, what point is there to dwell on them? Covering up the past is actually frightfully easy. Happened plenty of times in the real world in totalitarian states.
