Will we find out why Qui-Gon Didn't Disappear?

it was qui gon.

the jedi use a new technique. the jedi code forbids flatulence. at the moment of death the jedi release all of their "force fart in one burst, eradicating their mortal frames.

Originally posted by Darth Jello
the jedi use a new technique. the jedi code forbids flatulence. at the moment of death the jedi release all of their "force fart in one burst, eradicating their mortal frames.

It was Qui Gon's voice in episode 2. Rick even said they recycled Liam's audio. And when Qui Gon says "No," Yoda is surprised. As of the beginning of the clone wars, no Jedi knows how to maintain their "spirit" after death. It is a Sith trick. The Sith have been doing it for thousands of years. They even know how to transfer their spirit in other bodies, as Palpatine does. I guess after the extinction of the jedi, Yoda, Obi Wan and Anakin some how learn the trick through something related to Palpatine. A holocron or something.

it's not a sith trick, please read the sticky thread about using EU as a fact

I'm not going to say this is correct, but i have always thought, because i heard it somewhere, that the dissapearing corpse trick was a special technique taught only to certain Jedi...which is why Vader didn't know about it, and why Qui-gon didn't do it...maybe i just made it up when i was little, and have taken it as fact ever since, but that is what i thought it was...

Nope, GL says that QGJ's voice that Yoda heard was the first ever clue that anything beyond death was possible.

Originally posted by Mr.Deflok
Remember Anakin's line in Ep2 about learning how to stop people from dying? Well maybe this life after death as a Jedi Spirit has something to do with it? Just an idea... I know Anakin was having a moment but for some reason I think Lucas really wanted us to remember Anakin saying that.

Originally posted by Lyn
I thought there must be some significance to that line also, the whole idea about Anakin promising his mother that he'd never let it happen again.

good observation.

what if in order to dissapper you have to make peace with the force before you die.
that is why ob1 stood focusing his mind before darth killed him.
also thats why yoda calmed his mind before he slipped away into the "forever sleep" and only jedi masters are able to focus their mind enough to do it.

as said a million times or even more to others DA:

no.
if that was the truth it would have been common knowledge amonst jedi, padawans, and "normal" people.
It was clearly not, because Vader double checked in ANH if OB1 really was gone.

it's something totally new

but vader never achieved the rank of jedi master. maybe it is known to masters only.

OB1 never became a master either
he's still a jedi knight (but has a padawan)

Originally posted by yerssot
OB1 never became a master either
he's still a jedi knight (but has a padawan)

no, he never becomes a master, that's what they said on sw.c on a JC question

but he was far more experienced than annie.

it cant be that new coz vader knew how to do it...he did it in rotj

you're clearly not awake I think... in ANH he double checked if OB1 was dead, if he knew it, he wouldn't have done it

Maybe Obi-Wan was a nudist. As soon as the saber got closed he zipped away with force-induced speed, leaving his clothes there to confuzzle DV.

Seriously, no. I think the prophecy theory is the best idea so far.

Originally posted by wuTa
it cant be that new coz vader knew how to do it...he did it in rotj

Actually, it is very likely that Vader did indeed disappear in ROTJ.