Was Lucas aware of the "contradiction" between his scene and the prequels and just making a point of how easily...

Was Lucas aware of the "contradiction" between his scene and the prequels and just making a point of how easily brainwashed the masses are?

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This officer mocks Vader for following the "ancient religion" of the force, when it was only 20 years ago, and the officer would have grown up in a time when the Jedi were a prominent part of the Republic.

I guess he is talking about how that scene implies jedi were a very rare thing to the point a very educated officer thought they were not real.

Han did too, let's remember.

Maybe Motti's incredulity comes from mere personal animosity or contempt for Vader?

We’ll either way Vader destroyed him, which was kind of funny.

Conan Antonio Mouthy is more like it

>jedi were a very rare thing
They were generals who led clone armies? Surely it's not something that's easy to hide or forget?

dumb ass

Well it is if you have systematic brainwashing and propaganda. Similar to how america is trying to rewrite “racist” history that happened about the same time frame ago. Everyone will believe a lie if it’s told long enough.

You don't even need more than 5 years to memory hole something.

Not so far-fetched. Since Jedi were outlawed, the imperials would have grown with propaganda mocking them. IRL during Elizabeth I years Protestant in England felt contempt for Catholics, and they were Catholics just a generation ago

>people call older people “dinosaurs”
>UMM NICE CONTRADICTION DINOSAURS LIVED MILLIONS OF YEARS AGO
your average star wars fan

No, it makes sense. 9/11 was 20 years ago but it's long enough to "feel" like a different time even though 20 years really isn't anything

Who are you quoting?

And? He said that Vader was pretty much all that remains of that religion after he and the empire hunted down all the others. The Jedi religion was thousands of years old by that point.
It's like if Hitler was sucessful but then refered to Judaism as an ancient religion. Something that was/is facing extinction doesn't stop it being old.

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The implication is clearly that the officer is fully unaware that Vader can magically choke you.

Assume this guy, as much as his hairline is fucked up, is in his mid thirties. To call the force an ancient religion is the same as the modern detachment from religion in millennials. He could be saying the force and it’s users are gone although he’s heard rumors of Vader still being proficient in it he probably hasn’t seen that or a force user and wouldn’t have had the opportunity to for at least 20 years.

And no one thought Catholics were a myth