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Date Posted: 01:33:46 05/19/05 Thu
Author: Silk
Subject: Me nerding it up - the Star Wars timeline.

I wrote about this years ago on this Board, but thought I'd rehash the question - have you considered how poorly contructed the Star Wars timeline is?

Firstly, the birth of the Empire coincides with the year in which Luke and Leia are born. How old are these two in Return of the Jedi? 25? (And that's being extremely generous with their characters). If that's as long as the Empire lasted, it's pretty pisspoor, (and the impression you get from A New Hope is that the Empire's been around quite a bit longer than that).

If you watch Sith, I'm guessing that Kenobi's only 30 and Anakin's about 25. Fast forward to A New Hope which starts with Luke about 17-18. That makes Kenobi less than 50 in A New Hope (when he looks about 100) and Anakin/Vader in his early 40s. This seems to make both characters younger than they should be.

Then there's Luke's training on Dagobah in Empire. This begins when Han Solo evades the Imperial Ships pursuing him and makes for Cloud City. When he gets there and his party is captured by Vader, Luke has his premonition on Dagobah and leaves to save his friends. So how long was Luke on Dagobah? Three or four days? Again, that's being generous. But how long did it take the Millennium Falcon to make it to Cloud City? It surely couldn't have been much longer than that, which means Luke's training only lasted several days.

I've mentioned this in another post, but to recap . . . when Luke wants to go rescue his friends, Yoda tells him his training is incomplete and he isn't ready to face Vader. That makes sense since Luke's only been on Dagobah for a few days.

But when he returns to Dagobah in Jedi - which can only be several months later, at best - Yoda tells Luke that his training is complete and he'll be a Jedi once he faces Vader.

Why the crazy turnaround? Did facing Vader appreciate Luke's ability, maturity, and training? Even if that's the case, what sort of crash-course apprenticeship did he get?

If you go on Yoda's declaration that Luke's "too old to begin the training", you'd think it'd take years. He even declared Anakin to be too old, (although that might've been petulance, or just a reason not to train him).

Anyway, since we see young children - 5 or 6 years of age - training as apprentices in the prequel movies it'd seem it takes (at the very least) over 15 years to become a Jedi, (and, remember, Obi Wan was still an apprentice in Phantom Menace and he was in his 20s). So the question is how the hell did Luke manage it so quickly?

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