The Big Cliffhanger

Two days!! Ep2 is supposed to take place in two days??? That is very unlikely I think. I doubt we'll get a real idea how long it lasts. I think it'll be a little like ESB. We will see Padme and Anakin falling in love and probably getting married. Anakin visits three planets: Coruscant, Tatooine and Naboo and maybe one more, who knows. That is a little tight for just two days.

Yeah, I agree there, two days is just too quick. If Anakin does go from Coruscant, to Naboo, to Tatooine, to Genosis then it will have to be more than two days.

I'll happily distance myself from the two days thing. I can't back it up at all, I just thought it was the main rumour right now.

Regardless, the films normally take place in a tight time period (minus whatever time is needed for space travel), although you can be all day working out how long ESB is meant to last (Han does get to another system in sub-light, after all). So the Jedi wiping-out thing is still difficult, Council or otherwise.

Well, the time frame is not that important. How long did ANH last? And ESB? And ROTJ? It is vague, which gives them all the room they need to tell the story. I like that.

Yeah, I agree. More imprortant is knowing the timescales between movies. but even that isn't really required to follow them.

yeah...I think that's especially true in OT...you could see the progression of time a bit more in TPM...but not something you follow by any means.

Who cares as long as the films are great..

Well, there ya have it 😂

Well, continuity is important. But I find the OT did a great job in avoiding the time issue. With the PT we'll have to see. There's always Anakin aging of course, and that has effects on the entire saga. Some things have to be explained somehow. For instance why he looks like a 70-year old while he's only in his forties in ROTJ.

The whole two day thing came about from the head of LucasArts, he was talking about what games would be coming out for Episode II, he said that events (in the film) only take place over a couple of days.
As for the old Anakin in ROTJ...Well, GL stated that while he was writing TPM, he decided that Anakin should be younger than the thirteen year old he had envisioned, to make it more of an impact him leaving his mother, even if he had been thirteen, it still would'a just made him 49 years old, waaaaay short of how old SS looked, maybe the Skywalker clan just don't age all that well....

Hi there, I agree Anakin had been consumed by the Dark Side and a life of hardship and that made him look as old as he did 🙂 Obi Wan himself looked pretty old in ANH probably the result of a hard life.😐

Yeah, having the fate of the galaxy resting on your shoulders can do that to a man. 🙂

P.S Welcome to the site, Yerial!

Hi Yerial. We are honoured that you've joined us.

The aging-argument is very old of course. It's a bit of an easy way out, but I guess we'll buy it.

there has to be at least a couple years shown in the movie becuase in episode 4, Vader's about forty right? That means that a lot of time passes between episodes 3&4 or the time passes in episodes 2&3.

It's the first one. Most indications say that episodes two and three are very close- maybe even closer than Episodes V and VI, although it is somewhatr unclear how far those two are apart.

3 and 4 are almost certainly very widely spaced

the number of years that the saga lasts is:
SW:Episode I 32 years before ANH
Episode II 22 years before
Episode III 20 years before
SW:Episode IV: A New Hope
Episode V: 3 years after
Episode VI: 4 years after ANH

So there we are. Vader is in his mid forties in ROTJ. Oh the aging dilemma...

How old is Obi-Wan in TPM?

He's 25.

honestly? I thought he was nineteen.