I got the 32 years thing off the back of the DVD cover. And the 9-10 is sensible becasue it's 10 years difference, so he HAS to be at least 19-20. Plus, no 6-7 year old talks and acts like that.
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Your close, it's three years in between them. And it's 18 years in between ROTS and ANH. That I'm certain of.
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23+19=42, so I was dead-on. But yeah, ESB and ROTJ were one off, I always confuse it between 2 and 3 years difference. So Vader was 44-45 in ESB, 45-46 in ROTJ.
Anakin being 9 in TPM was a popular number, has been since 1999.
Going by all the books, and the OT, the Stormtroopers by the time of ANH were all men, actual people who were recruited or volunteered, and they were brainwashed at the academys to believe that what they were doing was right, to never except a bribe and so on...
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Palpatine didn't use the clones until after he kicked the bucket at the end of ROTJ. And that was Byss.
He is likely in his late 50's by TPM, making him in his late 60's by AOTC, so he was around the late 60's or early 70's by ROTS. Add about 20 years to that, plus the nearly 5 years between ANH and ROTJ, and we have the nearly 100-year-old twisted Emperor.
In Dark Empire, Palpatine says he kicked the bucket once already, but that completely messes with continuity, so Lucasfilm came in and said he was just trying to convince Luke he couldn't be killed.
Let's say Palps was 57 by TPM, add 43 years (time in between to Dark Empire) he'd be 100 by the time he comes back with the Eclipse.
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See what I'm wondering is: How can they say it messes with continuity when he said he'd learned how to not die, then he even takes the steps to ensure that he'd be able to do it via cloning? Seemes to me that these events hold alot better than... say, Anakin bieng the SW's version of Christ.
Hm. I though he was 65 by ROTS. Meaning that by ROTJ he'd be, oh, 84 or so, around Dooku's age in ROTS.
Then again, there is the common fan theory that he is an ancient being himself, and that it was his facade as Palpatine that was melted away by his powerful lightning, not his true face.
And the Dark Empire series should never have occured. Completely takes away the meaning of Anakin's last act, his sacrifice. And just the fact that someone should completely cheat death, not once, but twice, is maybe even three times, is just stupid. Even worse is that he comes back with power that can destroy a star fleet.
Sep 4th, 2005 01:47 AM
