Why did Qui Gon body burn. Shouldn't he have dissapeared when he died?

Originally posted by queeq
McCallum said that Anankin did disappear, just that we didn't see it. That only the armour was burnt.

Now, this again goes wrong on so many counts: OB1 and Yoda took a while to learn the disappearing trick from dead QGJ... Anakin did it in a couple of minutes on his own. But prolly the idea that he is the Chosen one means he can do anything.

The plotline is so stupid and so badly worked out that is hardly worth debating. Especially since the PT makes these problems and kinda muffles it away in a corner. I don't see any logic or reason or any consistency in the whole ghost thing...

For quigon, he didn't learn to become one with the force till after he was dead. I'm sure yoda would of figured it out if he went first. but again if it's an instantanious death like Ben in IV then you disappear or a death due to natural causes like Yoda in VI then you disappear. but since vader wasn't either of those i would say screw what McCallum said and say he didn't disappear.

Yes indeed, an old debate.

The old answer, of course, was why shouldn't it disappear, as it was established that fading into the Force was not s standard Jedi thing, as people may have assumed before TPM was shown.

Now, I am all for QGJ being instrumental in changing this, and then we could have had an interesting plot point about how he did it, despite not apparently fading away like that.

But as queeq says, GL in the end just shoehorned it in and all it does now is leave everyone confused. This one definitely should have been done properly.

Not just this one. 😉

Originally posted by steverules_2
I like how people question why Qui Gons body never dissapeared but they never question why Anakins body didn't dissapear either and yet Anakin actually became a force ghost unlike Qui Gon

Well, technically they both became Force ghosts, it's just that Qui-Gon did not become a visible ghost.

McCallum said that Anankin did disappear, just that we didn't see it. That only the armour was burnt.

On the ROTJ DVD commentary, Lucas seems to say otherwise: that Luke is burning his father's body.

That was the original intent of the scene. If Anakin's body was supposed to disappear, why not show this in the film? Instead we see Anakin die and Luke stay there with his not-disappearing body.

Anakin's funeral pyre is mirrored by that of Qui-Gon. Why should Luke be giving a Jedi funeral to an empty set of Sith armor?

Originally posted by queeq
True. But he lived for 800 years... Qui Gon only 60 or so.

Originally posted by Darth Luminous
Well, technically they both became Force ghosts, it's just that Qui-Gon did not become a visible ghost.

On the ROTJ DVD commentary, Lucas seems to say otherwise: that Luke is burning his father's body.

That was the original intent of the scene. If Anakin's body was supposed to disappear, why not show this in the film? Instead we see Anakin die and Luke stay there with his not-disappearing body.

Anakin's funeral pyre is mirrored by that of Qui-Gon. Why should Luke be giving a Jedi funeral to an empty set of Sith armor?

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