Going from being in your 30s to 50s living a hard life in the desert wastes will do this, yes. Is anyone surprised?
Beru on the left is 16 (age of the actress, not of the character), Beru on the right is 57.
Age weirdness aside, I never realized how much young Beru looked like older Beru.
You think that aunt Beru transformation is normal? Yes I am surprised lol
Jar-Jar warned us. “The suns doin’ murder to meesa skin”
Not just the skin! We’ve known earth sun has immunosuppressive properties since the 1970s, and now it looks like damaged skin is fucking up your bod like a poorly cooled CPU slowly heat-stressing all the other components in your computer to death. The sun is not your friend on Earth, and they have
threetwo on Tatooine.But vitamin D
Vitamin Death
poorly cooled CPU slowly heat-stressing all the other components in your computer to death
The what now? Are you sure that’s even a thing?
Two suns. The famous John Williams song is called Binary Sunset.
On the other hand, the sun powers up people like Superman.
Imagine him surrounded by 3 suns.
The sun is not your friend on Earth
there wouldn’t even be life on Earth without the sun
That’s one of the things in TPM that makes the least sense to me. They’re on Tatooine, Jar-Jar is an aquatic creature. Why go into the desert?? Stay. On. The. Ship.
Of all the things, that’s your biggest complaint?
Talking about laying low and not drawing attention and then bringing a creature like Jar Jar along makes no sense. It always bothered me that they brought him to town.
that’s one of the things in TPM that makes the least sense
that’s your biggest complaint?
How exactly did you draw that conclusion??
But he needed to step in the poop on Tatooine, that was his whole purpose there.
and get his tongue stuck in Anni’s pod racer
A lot of cocoa farmers have never tasted chocolate, so it tracks that in the terminal capitalism of the Galactic Empire, moisture farmers wouldn’t have access to moisture.
I watched that yesterday and I don’t have the heart to stop giving chocolate to my daughter, but I don’t know that I’ll be eating it any longer.
doesn’t tatooine have two suns? solar radiation wrecks skin.
You should see some of the folks over there in Arizona
Can we take a moment to appreciate how spot-on that casting is, though?
I’m glad they gave Owen and Beru a little time to be brave badasses even though outmatched
Right? Owen and Beru’s noses look perfect.
They got nothing on folks from Key West, FL.
19 years of Luke whining will do that to anybody.
Aaaaw, but I wanted to go to Toshi’s station to pick up some power converters
You can pay with your friend when your chores are done.
Repeat every day for 20 years.
He got it eventually.
Mark Hamill is a fucking treasure.
Why does he have broccoli on his chest?
He’s the Joker he does what he wants.
Living the dream!
I think that’s a Doctor Who reference. Fifth Doctor, to be exact.
Indeed. And it’s celery, not broccoli, although five’s celery wasn’t usually so leafy.
Bwahahahaha!
What if I told you… those actors are more or less all the correct ages, and if anything the younger cast is a bit older than it should be.
What if you told us that… Would that be in any way correct?
The ages of Alec Guinness and Ewan McGregor pretty much track actually. It’s just that a 63 year old looked a lot older in the 70s. Tom Cruise is 61 now, Keanu Reeves is 59. Ewan McGregor is 52 now and the events of Obi-Wan are about ten years before EP. 4.
Spend 20 years in the desert and you’ll see it will have done a number on your skin!
These pictures are 18 years apart. Life in an impoverished place can age you quite a bit.
I don’t know that life on Empire-era Tatooine was quite as bad as life as a woman in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, but maybe.
They still had chattel slavery while the Republic was around and it was controlled by a mafia family and they had to constantly be on the lookout for the Native population that did not like them being there.
Or check out pictures of impoverished farmers in the Great Depression. Even the 18 year olds looked old. Here is homesteader Jim Norris at 37 years old:
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jim_Norris,_homesteader_1a34135v.jpg
Have you never lived in the Midwest? There’s not much to do.
By which I mean, this is more meth than weather
And there is a lot of weather!
Can confirm, from Midwest, lots of meth
There has always been Starkadders on Cold Comfort Farm.
What’s that?
I love that book and the movie is not bad either. I keep trying to get people to read it, but they’re never interested.
There’s a book? :0
Star Wars is an abject lesson on why you should not do prequels to long established IPs.
…so does my mother look young for her age or the one top old?
Don’t get high off your own supplies, duh.