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Qui Gon Jinn's funeral
Posted on 4/21/17 at 4:08 pm
Posted on 4/21/17 at 4:08 pm
Has it ever hit anyone how fricked up it is that about 50 ppl, including a 9 year old boy sit around and watch a body burn until the flesh melts off the bones? Not to mention the smell. They're all standing around watching Qui Gon Jinns skin literally melt off of his face. No wonder Anakin turned out so fricked up
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Posted on 4/21/17 at 4:13 pm to Frac the world
It is weird. I wonder why they didn't do something completely normal and non-morbid like just have visitors walk around an open casket looking at and sometimes touching a dead body that has been filled with preservatives to delay decomposition?
Posted on 4/21/17 at 4:24 pm to Mo Jeaux
By that point in Phantom Menace nothing would have surprised me
Posted on 4/21/17 at 4:27 pm to Frac the world
That's the actual name of the song on the soundtrack too. I remember that well because it spoiled me when I was reading the back of the CD case at Walmart a week or so before the movie.
Posted on 4/21/17 at 4:27 pm to dallastiger55
Why was his body even burned on Naboo? Knowing the Jedi of that era, a midichorian extraction would have been in order back on Coruscant.
Posted on 4/21/17 at 4:36 pm to Mo Jeaux
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I wonder why they didn't do something completely normal
Because, like everything else, Lucas ripped it off of RotJ ala Vader for lack of anything original.
Posted on 4/21/17 at 4:40 pm to Frac the world
It's not as if this is a new idea. They burn dead bodies in Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones and Troy just off the top of my head.
Eta: I realize two of those came after Phantom Menace. Just saying it's not an uncommon practice in stories.
Eta: I realize two of those came after Phantom Menace. Just saying it's not an uncommon practice in stories.
This post was edited on 4/21/17 at 4:44 pm
Posted on 4/21/17 at 6:01 pm to meeple
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Because, like everything else, Lucas ripped it off of RotJ ala Vader for lack of anything original.
Are you really complaining about Lucas deciding that an ancient dogmatic religious sect uses funeral pyres in a similar fashion to ancient cultures that he clearly drew inspiration from?
This post was edited on 4/21/17 at 6:05 pm
Posted on 4/21/17 at 6:14 pm to Frac the world
Qui Gon and Obi should have been the same character.
Posted on 4/21/17 at 6:38 pm to Jcorye1
I still don't understand how Obi Wan disappeared before the saber finished slicing him.
Posted on 4/22/17 at 3:30 pm to JabarkusRussell
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I still don't understand how Obi Wan disappeared before the saber finished slicing him.
It's b/c Obi is Snoke. Lucas pretended to dislike TFA as part of his 40 year long con of Obi secretly being evil.
Posted on 4/22/17 at 4:25 pm to Frac the world
Im surprised Liam died in the first place.
This post was edited on 4/22/17 at 4:26 pm
Posted on 4/22/17 at 4:32 pm to Frac the world
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Has it ever hit anyone how fricked up it is that about 50 ppl, including a 9 year old boy sit around and watch a body burn until the flesh melts off the bones?
No.
Most European cultures did it before Catholicism and made a public spectacle of it. Wasn't a big deal, he was dead.
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
Compare that where families brought kids and women to watch public hangings in England and America.
Now you are actually watching murder of a human being live.
Public hangings in the US were more popular than the local Fair.
Public hangings were considered by many a major community event and still others took to them as an opportunity to become unruly as with modern sporting events: “Sometimes tens of thousands of eager viewers would show up to view hangings; local merchants would sell souvenirs and alcohol. Fighting and pushing would often break out as people jockeyed for the best view of the hanging or the corpse! Onlookers often cursed the widow or the victim and would try to tear down the scaffold or the rope for keepsakes. Violence and drunkenness often ruled towns far into the night after 'justice had been served.”
Just another Saturday football night, eh?
This post was edited on 4/22/17 at 4:34 pm
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