What's up guys and welcome to the weekly Q&A. Our first question this week comes from Luke Bruton who asks how I think Snoke's backstory will
eventually be explored. Is it gonna be in a book or an animated series.A comic, a standalone movie? What's it gonna be?
I would assume that the most likely scenario is that it's a combination of all of the above.
But I would keep an eye out in any story that features Luke set in between
Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens. The novelization for The Last Jedi
hinted pretty strongly the Luke and Snoke met or at least Snoke
contacted him at some point during that time while Luke was exploring the history of the jedi and Snoke basically wanted to
confuse him. This was before he was Supreme Leader and that it was known that he was an evil guy, even though if you looked
at his face, you should just know instantly.
But he basically wanted to try to divert Luke's goal of restarting the Jedi Order. He wanted to convince him to do something else.
So,
I would love to see Luke's story in that time period explored in a book series or potentially an animated series.
So one of those two formats would be my best guess.
Zachary Zeegen wants to know if I think Solo: A Star Wars story will end with Han sitting down in the cantina to meet with
Luke and Obi-Wan.
That's actually how the Han Solo
trilogy from Star Wars Legends by AC Crispin ended. The third book ends with them all meeting and
that was fine for the book, but I really hope they don't go that direction in the movie,
and I don't think they will. It seems like Solo is taking place much earlier before A New Hope and
I want this to be a pretty much standalone movie. I mean yeah, we know Han, we know Chewie,
we know Lando, we know the Falcon but other than those familiar elements,
I want it to be new and I just don't want the anthology movies to get into this habit.
Like what Rogue One did which again, it worked for Rogue One, but I just don't want every movie to lead into one of the
episodic saga films. I just don't think that's a good habit to get into.
Cajes Pitts asks if Poe Dameron will be a General in Episode Nine.
I wouldn't be surprised at all if that happened. I mean considering how few people are left in the Resistance,
he's got to be on the fast track for a promotion. And
his entire arc in The Last Jedi was about learning to be a leader and not just a hero.
Plus, I mean the Rebellion promoted people for less I would say. Han spent a year in carbonite
and he still got a promotion to General.
We have Lando who was part of the Rebellion for a year or less
and he got promoted to a General because he apparently had one successful maneuver at the Battle of Taanab.
So I think Poe Dameron has a longer service record.
I think it would make perfect sense that he'd be a
General in Episode 9 in the context of the story, especially if there is a time jump, which I have to assume will happen.
Jake Engel wants to know who shot first in canon. Was it Han or was it Greedo?
I think Lucasfilm is doing their best to leave that open to fan interpretation. I think they know that that wasn't a
well-received change in the special editions and so in a lot of the
adaptations of that story they have specifically said that Han shot first.
So it's kind of up to you
Do you want to go with what happened in the special edition of the movie, which I would say is
the "most canon" version that was George's vision even though I
disagree with that.
I think that his original intent was for Han to shoot first in A New Hope and that he changed his mind.
So I just think you can choose what you want to believe. I mean, I like Han shooting first
so that's the way I choose to perceive things and I think Pablo Hidalgo even said once that
there are
multiple versions of this event so it's like it's being told from different points of view of people that saw it in the cantina and
the only thing we can say for sure is that two people sat down at a booth and
only Han walked away. Who shot first? It's like well, it'ss up to interpretation
I guess and it's up to our audience/fan
interpretation so I think choose which one you want. If for some reason you like Greedo shooting first,
I think hat's perfectly fine to accept, or if you want to go with the old Han shot first, that's just as valid.
Jacob Gallup asks how my memory is so good when it comes to Star Wars. Not to toot my own horn
but it's not just Star Wars.
I'm pretty good with all movie trivia. But yeah Star Wars is a special case because there's so much trivia to cover
and this channel definitely helps. I mean, let's say that I am covering a new book. First
I read the book and as I'm reading it,
I take notes about what I'm gonna make videos on. Then for each of those videos
I have to take the notes and adapt them into a script.
Then I have to read the script in a voiceover and then I have to edit that
voiceover. Then I have to listen to the voiceover or read the script and gather the appropriate visuals.
Then I have to listen to the voiceover again and place all the visuals.
And then I have to render it out and watch it to make sure it's all good.
So I'm like seeing it all,
I'm hearing it all again. By the time a video is actually done on a certain topic,
I have covered it very extensively. It's pretty well drilled in there, so yeah doing a channel like this
definitely helps retain that information.
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On to YouTube questions, TheBurgerHut7 asks if Rex and R2 met each other on
Endor and if they recognized each other because we do have confirmation, thanks to Star Wars Rebels, that Rex was on Endor.
If Nik Sant is retconned into Rex then yeah, they were in very close proximity
and I expect that they probably did recognize each other, and maybe they had time to say hey and catch up a little bit.
But Lucasfilm - kind of like the Han/Greedo thing - it sounds like they're leaving that up to fan interpretation.
They haven't said definitely one way or the other. I kind of tend to believe that Nik Sant is Rex
just because Dave Filoni said that that's something he thought would be fun, that he wanted to happen.
But again there's nowhere that definitely says that. I think it's up to interpretation
so if you like that idea you can go with it, if you don't like that idea, then don't believe it. It's fine.
MasterVideoStudios wants to know if I think Sabine stayed on Lothal after the events of Star Wars Rebels
throughout the rest of the Galactic Civil War.
We don't know for sure, but personally I kind of doubt it.
I don't see her staying there doing nothing for the rest of the war.
Maybe she stayed for a little bit
and then once she felt confident that Lothal was safe and that the Empire wasn't going to retaliate,
then she ventured back out. Maybe she used it as a home base, and she made sure to check in every few months.
But I just don't see her doing nothing
while we know that Hera and Zeb and Rex and Chopper continued the fight.
I mean Zeb and Hera
and I think Rex were all featured kind of in the background of this week's issue of the Star Wars
Comics, so I just don't see her saying okay, you guys continue the fight
and I'm just gonna sit here and make sure nothing else happens.
I mean she probably did feel some responsibility for Lothal considering her relationship with Ezra.
But if she knew that it were safe, I think she still would have been supporting the Rebellion any way that she could.
Kieron Spoors asks if I think Luke and Ahsoka ever met after Return of the Jedi.
I would be shocked if they never do. That just seems like a character interaction that Lucasfilm won't want to pass up.
So the bigger question for me is when is it going to happen
and how so
maybe it could happen in the next animated series if it's like about Luke or if it's a book. Whatever series
I proposed where Luke could potentially meet Snoke. It could happen then or it could happen in a
wequel to the Ahsoka book by EK Johnston. I don't know, but I do think it will happen eventually.
Paul King wants to know why Imperial and First Order officers have British accents.
I think the in-universe reason would be because that's a posh Coruscant accent.
It's the way that the elite of the galaxy were known to talk and that's the way the Empire and the First Order view themselves.
It's elite. So I wouldn't be surprised if they actually
trained their officers to speak with that accent even if it weren't natural .And we can see in the book Thrawn, Eli Vanto
does not have that accent and he gets a lot of shade thrown at him for being obviously not from the core worlds.
He's actually from wild space .So that's the best justification I can come up with.
Meesa Your Humble Servant asks what
aspect of the Old Republic I think Lucasfilm will explore first and what aspect do I want them to explore first?
I think we will probably get either the Mandalorian Wars
or just the Jedi-Sith Wars because either of those options would be very marketable. You'd either have
recognizable Mandalorian armor or it would be full of red and blue and green lightsabers.
I think either of those would attract the eye of the more casual Star Wars fan, and honestly I would be fine with either option.
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