What's up guys and welcome to the weekly Q&A
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Our first question this week comes from Alden Diaz who asks if the Jedi of the prequel era knew about Ahch-To
or the original Jedi texts or any of that
Was it Palpatine's purge that made all of that knowledge disappear, or had it been lost long ago?
I'm kind of under the impression that all that stuff was lost well before the movies ever started
And I think that because if Palpatine knew about Ahch-To or if he discovered it through Jedi Records
then he would have sent someone to desecrate the temple and destroy it
Because he did that to other Jedi temples
Also, we know that some people in the galaxy thought that Jedha was the origin point for the Jedi
And I don't think that is the case, but what that tells me is that the...
Origin point for the Jedi Order is very convoluted and no one really knew where it started
So, I do think it's likely that Yoda and Mace Windu and Qui-Gon had heard about Ahch-To.
They just didn't know how to find it
Maxwell Patrican wants to know if Finn had not been stopped by rose in The Last Jedi
Would he have been able to do any actual damage to the battering ram cannon?
I think that we are being led to believe that if he had gone through with that,
his sacrifice would have been completely in vain
Maybe he would have damaged or destroyed the cannon
But I don't think it would have resulted in a Resistance victory.
I think it just would have slowed the First Order down a little bit
Bayou Jesse asks who is the returning Jedi in Return of the Jedi is it Luke or Anakin?
I say why not both dot jpg
It's a return for Anakin to the light side and Luke becoming a Jedi is a return for the Jedi Order
I don't think it has to mean one or the other, I think it can mean both
Dex's Diner wants to know if Yoda was flat out wrong when he told Luke
Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny
Yes, I think Yoda was just wrong
But we're talking about a Jedi Master that had a hand at least in training two Sith Lords
Count Dooku was his Padawan, he became Darth Tyranus
He had a hand in training Anakin
And of course we all know what happened there.
So, I think he sees Luke going down the similar path,
and he just has very warranted concerns that it's going to turn out the same way
Tyler Williams asks if I ever just get tired of Star Wars and want to take a break from it
It's funny the timing of this question
So I'm working on that journey to Solo A Star Wars Story series
where I'm going through all of the Legends books about han and Lando
And...
That has been a little much.
I mean, I just.. it was my own fault
I set a deadline to read seven books very quickly
And it was a little bit of a struggle at the end where I was just tired of reading more than anything
But here's the funny thing, I finished Scoundrels late Monday night, and I was like okay
I'm glad I got through all that and now I can just focus on the videos, take a break from reading
Tuesday, I checked the mail, and there's Last Shot
I got it early so I could review it
And I couldn't wait to open it up and read it. So I mean it does kind of...
come and go in waves, I guess. Especially if I...
Put an overload on myself
But...
Honestly, no I have yet to be like I really really just need a break from Star Wars
I mean, when Rebels was on every week. I looked forward to it every week
I look forward to all the new books. Wednesday, I'm always excited to read the new comic, so...
Honestly, I haven't had that much of a.. just like I need a break from Star Wars. It's more when I...
pile on
extra work on top of it that it becomes a little bit of a grind, but I mean like I wouldn't trade it for anything
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Onto YouTube questions, Germaniac asks why Finn refers to Han as a war hero in The Force Awakens
I mean, did he have some sort of history lesson with the First Order
and if so wouldn't they have branded him a war criminal?
Well, I don't know that they had history lessons,
but we do know that they were just blasted with propaganda every single night
So I think it's very likely he did know who Han was
at that point in time, he defected, so someone he once considered a criminal he might now call a hero
And even if that weren't the case, I think he just had enough tact to not call him a criminal
Especially when Han is standing there with a blaster
He's got Chewie with a bowcaster, and they both caught Finn on their ship
Bob Bob wants to know if I could change one thing in Star Wars, what would it be?
I assume you mean new canon, so I'm going to go with the Galactic Civil War
I wish that it lasted a little bit longer beyond the Battle of Endor
I mean, I really like the Battle of Jakku as a kind of last stand
I just wished that it were a few more years out
I think I prefer the slow decline of the Empire as told in Legends over the swift defeat that we got in canon
Bugs Bunny asks my two cents on Kathleen Kennedy wearing the Force is female shirt
I agree with you that of course the Force has no gender, but it's just a shirt
It's a light-hearted, and yeah, also empowering statement, and I think that's fine
I mean, I'll say this, if Molly were to wear that shirt
I would have zero problem with it so I have no problem with Kathleen Kennedy wearing it either
Grabbing some questions from our new Facebook group
Trey Haddon wants to know if the Bad Batch or Echo executed Order 66
I think that the most likely answer for both of them is yes
And I feel sorry for whatever Jedi were with the Bad Batch at the time
Although Echo is...
Interesting to consider. I hadn't really ever thought about it before
but the Techno Union messed with him for a while
It's possible that the chip malfunctioned
Or was removed or something so maybe he didn't go through with Order 66
And maybe he's still out there somewhere. I have no idea
I think it's more likely that he did just because we have no real evidence to say the other way
But who knows?
Samuel Virgo asks if the New Republic still has a fleet floating around in the galaxy somewhere
Or if it was all destroyed at Hosnian Prime.
I think we are to believe that it was almost completely obliterated by Starkiller Base
But The Last Jedi novelization does mention
that some surviving senators who weren't at Hosnian Prime at the time
took what was left of the fleet back to their home worlds for protection
So yeah, there are some ships out there
We just don't really know how many. I wouldn't expect it to be a very large number, and that's about all we know
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