Comments on: Luke, I Am Your Eggplant

By: mitch4

mitch4 — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:31:00 +0000

Once I was taking a French-reading-exam-prep class, and struggled with my assigned passage apparently about an innkeeper and his wife the eggplant. Wha?

By: Araxie

Araxie — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 07:28:49 +0000

Brevity often works for me because of its sheer scale of randomness- this one is a good example. It’s just… SILLY. That’s why I smile.

By: Powers

Powers — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:08:21 +0000

He didn’t, but Yoda referred to him, saying he’d had contact with Qui-Gon and that Qui-Gon would teach Obi-Wan how to do it.

By: Jeff S.

Jeff S. — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:05:33 +0000

I’ll have to look, but I think Qui-Gon DID show up at the end of the 3rd (6th) movie, “Star Wars, Episode III: We’ve Milked It Dry”

By: mkilby

mkilby — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:59:30 +0000

@ John Small Berries (21) - I cannot remember any scene in any of the movies where Qui-Gon’s ghost shows up. It may occur in some of the semi-canonical “sideshow” material (Lucas-approved books, etc.); I’ve never bothered to read any of that stuff.

There is a retroactive “precedent” for Qui-Gon’s pyre: Darth Vader was torched in Return of the Jedi, and then Lucas went for the schmaltzy “happy end” by displaying Anikin’s ghost along with Yoda and Obi-Wan. Qui-Gon had not been invented at that point, of course, but that’s just another one of Lucas’s inconsistencies.

By: Soup Dragon

Soup Dragon — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:59:03 +0000

Yes Kit, I got it from your first post, and chuckled to myself. But I don’t think that’s what the artist had in mind.

By: Kit

Kit — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:22:27 +0000

Speaking of “flat,” did no one else see a connection to Monty Python’s skit about defending yourself when attacked with fruit?

By: paperboy

paperboy — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:34:35 +0000

The concept would be funny if done as animation (like on Robot Chicken) but as a comic-strip, it’s kinda flat.

By: John Small Berries

John Small Berries — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:07:56 +0000

George Lucas has said so many conflicting things in interviews (e.g. in one he said that the success of the first one spurred him to develop it into a three-trilogy series; in another, he said it was planned as nine movies from the start) that I think he’s just making stuff up as he goes along, and changing his mind as it suits him. (”We need a scientific reason for The Force. I know! Microscopic organisms in their cells called Midichlorians!” “Well, that went over like a lead balloon, let’s just never mention them again.”)

I’d go further, but anything I could say is nowhere near as eloquent or funny as this video review series of The Phantom Menace.

By: J-L

J-L — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:47:18 +0000

Sadly, John Small Berries (in comment #21) may be right about George Lucas lapsing. However, if we want to give George the benefit of the doubt (in that it was the way he meant it all along), I believe this could be the proper explanation:

You know how the deceased Obi-Wan Kenobi talked to Luke as a force-ghost in episodes IV, V, and VI? Well, that ability was only recently discovered several years earlier by Qui-Gon Jinn (and only after he died). Once Qui-Gon discovered how to communicate from the afterlife to non-deceased persons, he shared the secret with Yoda and Obi-Wan (and possibly other Jedi, as well).

Having a Jedi’s body disappear at death supposedly goes hand-in-hand with the ability to talk to still-living Jedi. So since Qui-Gon didn’t have this knowledge and ability upon dying, his body didn’t disappear like those of the other Jedi in later episodes.