quote: I don't like the idea of putting everyone we can think of in the prequel trilogy.
According to Star Wars Insider, niether does Lucas. He stated that for the most part he only going to include those characters that need to be in there, with only a possibility of superfluous characters showing up.
As for the R4 discrepency, the Insider explains that the original starfighter's droid was damaged and Anakin modified an R4 droid to replace it at a junkyard he crashed into... I think it might have to do with one of the books, but in this case the EU tries to keep itself intact.
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Stormtroopers are not all clones, for one thing the hyper-aging aspect of it would make them all dead by the time the original Star Wars movie comes along.
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Well there were a lot of young clones still being trained, and unborn ones as well.
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oh yeah, if all the troops are clones, and that means they're all like the same height and stuff, how did Luke find a suit which fit him? Then even if he did find one - wouldnt the other clone troops get suspicious of a real short one? plus those non-stormtrooper officers arent clones, so its probly could be assumed the stormtroopers arent clones either. And arnt all the imperial soldies (officers and troopers) with english accents? unlike the New Zealand accent that Jango has? or would clones not have the same accent as the DNA template?
About the R4 droid according to the cross-sections of Ep2, the story of an R4 droid built into the fighter is correct, with Anakin using an R2 dome instead of the damaged R4 one. IIRC
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Accents are 100% learned. They have nothing to do w/ genetics. If you were born in Liverpool, but taken away the moment you were born and raised for twenty years in Alabama, you'd sound like Foghorn Leghorn, not the Beatles.
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even if you move when you're an adult, you'll slowly lose your original accent, and begin picking up on the new one.
This happened to a friend of mine that moved to New York City. Imagine my amusement a few years later when she went from having an East Texas drawl to having a Brooklyn accent. Bizarre.
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I doubt after all those years, every stormtrooper is still a clone.
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Yes. The clones from AOTC and the next few batches created by the Kaminoans probably *do* become the first Stormtroopers. But, seeing as how cloning is probably outlawed after the Clone Wars, as the clones get older and die/are retired, they'll gradually be replaced by the familiar conscripted troops of the first Trilogy and the EU.
I mean, really, even if you look only at what we see in the actual films (for those of you who are obsessed with that and can't discern between the canons of Star Wars and Star Trek) it becomes apparent that the Stormtroopers are *not* all clones. Just think about this: Why would the Stormtroopers all be clones, and yet the Death Star gunners, AT-ST drivers, Imperial scanning crews, etc. all be regular Joes? Sure, I could maybe buy officers as being individuals trained at the Academy, (even if in AOTC all the officers were clones as well ) but all these other grunts too?
We've all been partially right here. The Stormtroopers DID start out as clones. But they didn't STAY that way.
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"even if you move when you're an adult, you'll slowly lose your original accent, and begin picking up on the new one. "
It varies quite a bit actually. Probably to do with pride about wher you come from, a desire to fit in, and other silly psychological issues. Some people seem to change accents instantly, while some hold on to them like a security blanket.
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I can speak to that. I lost my Irish accent within 18 months of moving to Canada as a precocious five-year old so that today it's apparently almost completely unnoticeable when I'm talking to most people. But, and this is where I'm a weird mutant, I apparently switch back to a somewhat more Irishy sound (probably making me sound like Tom Cruise in "Far and Away," unfortunately) when I'm talk to my parents and others with an accent. I certainly don't notice it, but my friends generally piss themselves laughing when they're with me at school when I'm talking to my mother on the phone. And that's why I'm an emotional wreck.
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I have a bit of an odd accent, and I can't figure out where it comes from (even my parents look at me like I'm insane).
For example, I pronounce "color" as "keller" ... so maybe it's just some fucked up DC/Baltimore varient that no one else has.
I feel identity crisis. People from the south say I have a northern accent, people from the north say I have a southern accent. Woe is me.
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) but all these other grunts too?![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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