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Even the people who don’t kidnap children to survive aren’t exactly concerned with safety in this galaxy.
Qui-Gon: Credits will do fine. [while attempting a mind trick]
Watto: No, they won’t.
Qui-Gon: Credits WILL do fine.
Watto: No, they won’t.
Qui-Gon: [Walks down street to money exchanger] Trade me these credits for Hutt bucks [Does mind trick]
Money Exchanger: Okay!
[Qui-Gon returns to Watto]
Qui-Gon: Here’s a pile of Hutt bucks. Sell me a functional hyperdrive.
Watto: Okay!
[Roll credits]
Yeah… why the fuck didn’t he do that? I mean the place he was in was hosting a giant ass pod racing championship with tons of visitors, are you expecting us to believe that no one would appreciate republic credits there?
It would be like if you time traveled to 2001 and tried to spend USD with some drug dealer in some backwater country and they laughed in your face… are you kidding me? USD then and now (though it might be in decline) is often preferred to local currency.
The Republic in ep 1 is about to get in a war with the Trade Federation over taxes. If a group of space traders think they can win a fight against the galactic government, then maybe the economy is poor and Republic credits aren’t trusted.
Not in Episode 1… that war wouldn’t start until many, many years later. At that time it was a highly localized trade dispute that even the Jedi didn’t think was that big of a deal until they tried to kill them.
Wait why do they need to mind trick a money exchanger? Isn’t it just their job to exchange money? You just need to hand them the credits. OK maybe you’ll get gouged on the exchange rate but it’s not like they were poor. Alternatively I’m sure there’s something of value on a fancy vessel that they could just sell.
Why not just trade the fancy vessel for a less fancy but functional vessel. I’m sure the queen could afford it.
My boss would not appreciate me swapping a company car for a beat up prius. Imagine Mace Windu’s scowl
Isn’t the ship the queen’s? It’s a Naboo diplomatic ship.
Ope yeah. Its been a while🤦♂️
Doesn’t matter. Mace Windu can still scowl.
Fuckers were trying to stop a planet blockade, you guys, someone could have been blockading our planet for billions of years and we’d only have noticed this week.
Just for shits and giggles
They didn’t need to mind trick the money exchanger, they just did it cause it’s fun mind trick hand wave
The thing with the Jedi mind trick is that only Jedi’s think it works.
Everyone else just see a scary lightsaber guy asking them to repeat a sentence and are more than happy to comply if it means they get left alone.
There’s a limit to how much you can pretend though.
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Letting an old man and a kid drive through a checkpoint? Fine, someone else’s problem.
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Handing over all your life savings for a bad deal? Uh, no actually.
“These aren’t the droids you’re looking for.”
“Yeah, sure, whatever you say, man. I just work here.”
“I’m not even supposed to be here today!”
Look, they pay them to man the checkpoint. They don’t pay them enough to deeply care about every benign person passing through…
And stormtroopers are supposed to be very disciplined and resistant to bribery.
Resistant to bribery, yes. Not resistant to light sabers.
Look dude I’m just here on bring your clone to work day
Is it a bad deal though? Are credits worthless to money changers in this context?
I took it more like galactic credits are banned on Tatooine , and no trader who didn’t want any trouble with the Hutts would be dealing with them. Taking them on would be a world of trouble, like fencing stolen goods
That’s not a bad explanation.
Thanks for explaining it. I’m not well versed on Star Wars. Seems like a galatic credit would have huge value compared to a local currency and someone would take that risk. Like trying to use USD in Argentina last year, illegal but worth it.
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Mr Gin just didn’t want to criminally implicate himself. Cheating in a casino creates a lot more opportunities to be noticed and caught. Pod racing has better plausible deniability.
We have half a movie to fill with padding, Padawan
Calvin’s dad says it builds character.
The hell is a Palawan
@TastyWheat @The_Picard_Maneuver It’s a jelly in training
It’s a humorous way of saying he’s his apprentice AND his friend!
This is canon now, great answer 😄
It’s a beautiful island! - me, someone in Palawan right now :-)
I now know more about the Philippines
On a scale of 1 to 10, how much space-weed do you reckon Qui-Gon Jinn smokes in a given day?
You don’t get that hair from smoking cigarettes.
About 27.3.
I think you mean about 42.0
Even Master Yoda doesn’t have a space weed count that high!
I believe he could be the stoner of legend, that he is the one who will finally bring balance to the clouds with the perfect THC/CBD ratio.
That’s only because he swaps between drugs to avoid building tolerance.
12 parsecs
Still gets to be a force ghost for some reason
so did Anakin the Orphan Crushing Machine, the bar for somewhere between normies and force-choking your babymom
He’s not in trouble at all. Now… We should be able to take a little child blood without consent on sand world.
He’s like of the first ever force ghosts. He’s REALLY good at it.
It just occurred to me that this meme needs like 2 modifications to be about Paul Atreides
Could have just traded in the non-working Nubian ship and bought a junker. It’ll get you to Coruscant just fine.
He could’ve just put Renton on the game.
Nono you see… after my plan, we get to keep the boy.
(also he did try to free his mom but then like… gave up after receiving one no, but at least the attempt was made or something?)
“No? Oh well, I didn’t want her anyway, she’ll just cause trouble along the way. But that way I can trick the boy into thinking I did everything I could.”
Child endangerment is the Jedi way.
That’s why they are given laser swords that can cut through anything at age six!
they are given laser swords
You mean those kids didn’t go through the Jedi ritual of constructing their own lightsabers? What has happened to our cherished traditions?!
Disney happened, that’s what.
Palps strip mined Ilum so it’s probably better that we don’t send younglings there any more.
Ah yes because Dantooine and it’s fucked up dark side giant cave spiders is so much better.
At least before the fall of the republic, it was apparently common for Jedi Padawans to be locked in a cave to face a trial against their deepest fear to get a Kyber Crystal to even make their lightsaber in the first place. If they failed to conquer their fear, they died.
Edit: apparently they don’t die per se, but are meant to believe they will and also if they fail, they might be stuck there. It’s weird and still not ethical
Training swords! They just sting like a bitch. They don’t make their own until well later.
Don’t forget blindfolding them while they use their laser swords
And then he still cheats by force manipulating the dice.
“Exactly. This is why I am the master, Obi-Wan. You have a lot to learn about the ways of the Force.”
Why is Qui-Gon replying with “made in mematic”
He did too many midichlorians
He’s so strong he can break the fourth wall.
