luke in black

Now that you bring up the skiff battle...well actually before that...remember when Han was released from the carbonite and he rolled over and his shirt was all dirty on front ? Did you notice it was amazingly clean after that scene and also on the skiff ?

He was a bit sweaty too, though. If he dried off & the dirt wasn't ground in, it'd have been easy to brush off. Now if you'll excuse me, I'll stop talking, the idea of a sweaty Harrison Ford isn't something I want to discuss.
As for Jedi costumes, I don't read too much into their colour or shade. Look at the preliminary sketches for TPM, or at Anakin's costume in Ep2.

And where did the elbow binders go????

He said that, Ush, in the documentary that come out with the OT (blue) box set.. Pre-SE. It came out in the mid 80's I think.

If you look at the Art of ROTJ you can see what lucas means by this, and the analogues to the TPM costumes as well.

But Maul's suit looks like that as well. Same style of cut.

I agree, though the tails of the over jerkin are longer and the shoulders more pronouced, but basically the designs find thir routes in a very similar place I feel.

Obviously fashion changes a bit over 38 years.

But not technology...

Well, technology seemed to have become more primative. E.g. Ep1 electrobinoculars compared to original trilogy, and holoprojector technology. Large holoprojectors in the original episodes took up, like, an entire room. Sidious seemed to be able to appear wherever he wanted to.

Well, after so many years some stagnation is inevitable, especially after all the trouble.

Long term war can do that.

What can I say like father like son. Think about Luke is so much like his father. And I believe, if it was real, that he did it as a force upon him. Something telling him not to go as a regular Jedi Knight. 😉

One thing that occurred to me today. Where would Luke have got the design for such a suit from. It is widely accepted, though unproven I admit, that all records of the jedi were destroyed during the Purge. Did Luke run off and do some research in between movies then?

The gap between Episodes V and VI is real vague of course... well, we know he didn't go to Dagobah... best guess is that he got some idea at Obi-Wan's old place.

Or just through general Force hints. Mind you, I thought that he got sabre design ideas at Obi Wan's place, so maybe there was some other info there.It ould have been bone idle of Yoda and Obi Wan to wait all those years and not make an attempt to record some Jedi history....

The Radio Drama certainly has him building his sabnre with instructions from Obi-Wan's place; however, as this was lifted from Shadows of the Empire it is not really canon.

NO it's EU, like I said. Radio and Shadows are EU, right?

Offically, the Radio Dramas are canon, bur as I explain in the Canon thread, they are beguinning to look shaky. The SOTE lifted bits are not canon at all.

There was some EU talk about a Holocron at Obi Wans place but not sure if that's true in EU lore?