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Case:
What bugs me a bit about the Disney+ canon: It's not even been half a century and everybody is like' "Hohum Jedi? What's a Jedi? Can you eat it?" Honestly, if I'd been a Jedi Purge survivor like Kenobi, and those ingratiates had forgotten 10.000 years of service in a mere handful of decades, I'd say Fuck Those Fuckers.
YesYes Palpatine 'suppressed talk about the Jedi'. I highly doubt the Empire managed to out-compete the Stasi in terms of snitches per capita.
BenRG:
I think that the issue is that so few people actually saw a real force adept in action that they were already part urban myth at the time of the Purge and they were so easily reduced to a tattered and hidden remnant that most people question if they were ever really anything but a bunch of nutty cultists.
Then you run into Anakin Skywalker's apprentice, who is only too pleased to demonstrate why she is the Last Woman Standing from the Clone Wars.
Case:
Really? In 24BBY, a stroppy Padawan with a penchant for loosing his saber can go "This is Jedi business" to a packed bar and everybody goes minding their own - and not even 40 years later, nobody knows what a Jedi is anymore?
Even if Palpatine had found every last record about the Jedi in the entire Galaxy, you'd need to suppress a memory of a major pillar of Galactic society for at least three generations for it to start to die out. And there's species that live considerably longer than humans in that farfaraway Galaxy.
What do you figure how many people had seen Richard Coer de Lion in his lifetime? Or Joan of Arc?
Which makes me wonder - There is a bona fide Jedi Rebellion Hero around in 10ABY. Apparently, everybody knows what they were doing when the second Death Star blew up - but nobody knows that the guy who blew up the first one and who takes half the credit for defeating Palpatine is a Jedi? IIRC, in the EU, Mon Mothma was only too happy to fling her Jedi sibling heroes into everybodies' faces, to reassure the systems of the Republic so they wouldn't go Separatist.
(click to show/hide)And what business does Tano have hunting Thrawn alone? And why doesn't she know about Luke? Is she too daft to add 'Jedi Rebellion Hero' and 'Skywalker' and come up with 'The good Son of My Master!'?
Blue Kitty:
I think most places that are like, "What's a Jedi," are the Outer Rim where few people are or go
LeeC:
--- Quote from: Blue Kitty on 02 Dec 2020, 16:38 ---I think most places that are like, "What's a Jedi," are the Outer Rim where few people are or go
--- End quote ---
Pretty much this. Also During the Clone Wars, Republic propaganda down played the deeds of the Jedi and mostly focused on the Clones and other Republic related actions. Post-Jedi Purge there was a huge Imperial propaganda goal to demonize them, in hopes of getting people to flush out and report any survivors. It's one of the reasons why the Rebel Alliance venerated them, as a symbol of the old republic. Which is why they really picked up on using "May the Force be with you" as a phrase. We the audience know very well what a Jedi was and unless you were in the core or mid rim worlds, or actively participated in the Clone Wars with a Jedi around, you may not have heard of them, had a limited understanding of them, or heard what was assumed to be exaggerated stories. The outer rims were pretty lawless and largely ignored by the old republic. The Empire on the other hand made sure their presence was felt everywhere.
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