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It translates to a more profitable video game
“Exactly. This is why I am the master, Obi-Wan. You have a lot to learn about the ways of the Force.”
Crap fanfiction!
The Prequels, I mean.
Makes me so angry. Imagine the plot of the prequels but written and produced like Andor.
And don’t imagine the sequels at all.
Honestly the original scene was real shit. Obi-Wan is Qui-Gon’s apprentice, he’s not about to point out how Qui-Gon’s plan is just bad.
Would then being Jedi mean they could sense when the cards are about to change values?
Still gets to be a force ghost for some reason
Qui-Gon: Credits will do fine. [while attempting a mind trick]
Watto: No, they won’t.
Qui-Gon: Credits WILL do fine.
Watto: No, they won’t.
Qui-Gon: [Walks down street to money exchanger] Trade me these credits for Hutt bucks [Does mind trick]
Money Exchanger: Okay!
[Qui-Gon returns to Watto]
Qui-Gon: Here’s a pile of Hutt bucks. Sell me a functional hyperdrive.
Watto: Okay!
[Roll credits]
Wait why do they need to mind trick a money exchanger? Isn’t it just their job to exchange money? You just need to hand them the credits. OK maybe you’ll get gouged on the exchange rate but it’s not like they were poor. Alternatively I’m sure there’s something of value on a fancy vessel that they could just sell.
Why not just trade the fancy vessel for a less fancy but functional vessel. I’m sure the queen could afford it.
Yeah… why the fuck didn’t he do that? I mean the place he was in was hosting a giant ass pod racing championship with tons of visitors, are you expecting us to believe that no one would appreciate republic credits there?
It would be like if you time traveled to 2001 and tried to spend USD with some drug dealer in some backwater country and they laughed in your face… are you kidding me? USD then and now (though it might be in decline) is often preferred to local currency.
The thing with the Jedi mind trick is that only Jedi’s think it works.
Everyone else just see a scary lightsaber guy asking them to repeat a sentence and are more than happy to comply if it means they get left alone.
There’s a limit to how much you can pretend though.
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Letting an old man and a kid drive through a checkpoint? Fine, someone else’s problem.
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Handing over all your life savings for a bad deal? Uh, no actually.
Is it a bad deal though? Are credits worthless to money changers in this context?
I took it more like galactic credits are banned on Tatooine , and no trader who didn’t want any trouble with the Hutts would be dealing with them. Taking them on would be a world of trouble, like fencing stolen goods
“These aren’t the droids you’re looking for.”
“Yeah, sure, whatever you say, man. I just work here.”
And stormtroopers are supposed to be very disciplined and resistant to bribery.
“I’m not even supposed to be here today!”
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Yes, because the Hutts would be totally cool with a couple of Jedi rolling up to their gambling dens and blatantly cheating for several hours. Screwing over one random used car salesman on a single bet is much easier to get away with.
Not to mention the whole “he could be the chosen one” angle, at which point freeing Anakin was just as important to Qui-Gon as getting off-planet.
…Me? Overthinking a silly meme? Noooo…
Qui-Gon is gambling at much higher stakes, placing the fate of the entire future of the galaxy into the hands of that boy, who Yoda had strongly recommended against being trained. So it’s not that Qui-Gon was against Obi-Wan wanting to gamble, he just wanted him to significantly up his game:-).
Canonically the actual gamble was qui-gon vs Darth maul. If qui-gon had lived, the universe would have been fine. But he lost, so it was doomed.
The force on star wars is weird, because if you’re strong enough in the force things are basically fated.
Anyway, that’s the long reason why the background music during that fight is called “The Duel of Fates”.
Even the people who don’t kidnap children to survive aren’t exactly concerned with safety in this galaxy.
On a scale of 1 to 10, how much space-weed do you reckon Qui-Gon Jinn smokes in a given day?
12 parsecs
You don’t get that hair from smoking cigarettes.
About 27.3.
I think you mean about 42.0
Even Master Yoda doesn’t have a space weed count that high!
I believe he could be the stoner of legend, that he is the one who will finally bring balance to the clouds with the perfect THC/CBD ratio.
That’s only because he swaps between drugs to avoid building tolerance.
Yes.
Calvin’s dad says it builds character.
The hell is a Palawan
It’s a beautiful island! - me, someone in Palawan right now :-)
It’s a humorous way of saying he’s his apprentice AND his friend!
@TastyWheat @The_Picard_Maneuver It’s a jelly in training
Child endangerment is the Jedi way.
That’s why they are given laser swords that can cut through anything at age six!
Anything aged six too!
Training swords! They just sting like a bitch. They don’t make their own until well later.
Don’t forget blindfolding them while they use their laser swords
they are given laser swords
You mean those kids didn’t go through the Jedi ritual of constructing their own lightsabers? What has happened to our cherished traditions?!
At least before the fall of the republic, it was apparently common for Jedi Padawans to be locked in a cave to face a trial against their deepest fear to get a Kyber Crystal to even make their lightsaber in the first place. If they failed to conquer their fear, they died.
Edit: apparently they don’t die per se, but are meant to believe they will and also if they fail, they might be stuck there. It’s weird and still not ethical
Disney happened, that’s what.
Palps strip mined Ilum so it’s probably better that we don’t send younglings there any more.
Ah yes because Dantooine and it’s fucked up dark side giant cave spiders is so much better.
You want those younglings to be defenseless against the Jedi that kill them with their laser sword?
The only thing that can stop a bad Jedi with a laser sword is a good Jedi with a laser sword
