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Episode 121: The Mystery and Intrigue of Force Lightning · Most Things Kenobi - A Star Wars Podcast

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Hello there, it's time for most things Kenobi.
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I prefer all things Kenobi, but I suppose that's not the Jedi
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way, as long as it's not all things Anakin.
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Hi everyone, welcome to another episode of Most Things Kenobi.
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A podcast about Obi Wan Kenobi and all things Star Wars.
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I'm your host, Lauren. And I'm your host Leanne.
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And this week, this was like the Wills, Leanne.
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Yeah, tell me more. Like researching forced
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lightning was like going down a rabbit hole with no end.
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And I I didn't realize that it was so much more.
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Yeah, a lot. You think on the surface I was
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just like, what the fuck? This is this scene.
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It was a lot. Well, we're talking about Forced
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Lightning and Luke Skywalker, and I'm probably going to get a
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little technical. I'm not going to get super
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technical. I could if you wanted me to, but
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I'm going to spare everyone's souls from the hard science of
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lightning itself. But I'm excited to talk about
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this because you and I have asked this question before.
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Why doesn't Luke have any scarring from all that Force
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lightning? I will say that that like after
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all this research, I have no answer.
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Well, that's good. That's good, because it keeps
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the mystery alive. Yeah, there's a lot of theories,
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but there's no like, official answer which is very.
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Very frustrating. Well, just like everything else,
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the wills like you mentioned. Yes.
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Yeah, you know all these mido chlorians we can't explain
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Sabine's sudden forceness. There's just unexplained things
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in the Galaxy. I didn't realize there were so
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many kinds of forced lightning. Honestly, I thought there was
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just forced lightning. And there's a ton of kinds.
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I didn't know. Let's start there because I'm
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unaware. OK, so there are totally
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different explanations depending on if you're looking at Canon or
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Legends. They're like not even remotely
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the same. It's insane.
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Of course. So in Canon, there are basically
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different colors and. Even like Mother, Talzin has
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forced lightning, apparently. It would make sense that a witch
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could utilize a force like that. It seems like they have whatever
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they want at their fingertips, literally and figuratively.
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Yes. So basically the commonality I'm
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seeing is that the Force is like a or I'm sorry, forced lightning
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is like a physical manifestation of the Force.
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It's like a tactile like manifestation of the Force.
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So interesting. It requires a lot of power, and
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sometimes it requires sacrificing part of yourself for
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that power, which is why Jedi don't use it usually.
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And even it was banned by the Jedi for most of Jedi history.
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But in Legends there are different kinds, like so many
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kinds, I don't know if we have time to list them all.
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I find this fascinating because I only know one kind of
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lightning and that's what happens on planet Earth, you
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know? So how can there be variation?
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I guess I don't know. I'll.
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I'll hold all questions until after you you tell us more.
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Well, the thing, the one the version that I found most
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hilarious, was called Electric Judgment.
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What? So sorry, so stupid.
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I love that. It's a Jedi version of forest
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lightning. That of course it is.
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It's it's so judgy. I know, right?
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Right. It's so self-righteous.
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It's insane. But Luke and PLO Coon have used
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that, and it's like when you when you know you are in the
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right and you have. The correct judgment at a
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situation they don't use it to to harm, although Luke did use
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the teal people. Oh, well, that's fine.
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I mean Skywalker stuff, right? Look, he was backed into a
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corner. He had to.
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So there's like the Force Shock, Force Storm Chain lightning.
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Sys. Barrage Lightning Shield.
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Lightning Grenade. What?
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Lightning bum, we escalate. Oh.
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Sith Seeker Lightning Burst and then Vader's variant.
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That queen is has to have his own special term for his force
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Lightning. I mean, it makes sense.
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He is wearing an electrical suit, so he would definitely
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have to. He'd have.
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To have a variant, yeah. How fascinating.
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So you can see why I was overwhelmed, yes.
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And I did not read through all of this because it's just it was
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too much. I just read through the
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traditional forced lightning. So that was plenty in and of
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itself. In your reading, did you happen
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to see anything now? You said to use forced
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lightning. Sometimes you have to give some
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of yourself to use it correct. Yeah, it can have like a very
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negative side effect on both the user and the victim.
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So if you're so I'm thinking of Ray in The Rise of Skywalker,
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right? She just kind of it's almost
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like she was surprised it happened.
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Yeah, so people are really upset about that, and it's because
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Legends Legends created this whole idea of what you needed in
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order to use forced lightning. And there were like specific
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rules, like you had to be very focused, like it doesn't just
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happen by accident, you had to have had it happen to you and
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then it like transfers the power to you.
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That I can buy this is stuff that makes sense to me.
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I mean in a scifi world. And you had to be taught
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specifically how to use, and Ray had none of that.
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And it was just like a burst of emotion from Ray.
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Which in Legends now, I'm sorry, in Cannon that that's possible.
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So they've shown it a couple of times in cannon that it can just
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be a burst of emotion that causes forced lightning.
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Hers was strong enough to blow up a ship.
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Yeah. So Ray, I'm not dogging on her,
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you know, I'm just trying to figure out.
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Wouldn't someone who, especially if they didn't prepare
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themselves to wield Force lightning, wouldn't it exhaust
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them a little bit? I'm thinking of like, you
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remember how when baby Yoda uses the Force when he's super super
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young in the in the Mandalorian season and he like falls asleep
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and takes a nap. That's the worst because he's so
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tiny and cute and young and all. But like I'm thinking the same
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thing if you don't practice and you don't.
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Learn how to wield it in a certain manner.
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Yeah, it could totally wipe you out.
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Yeah, it's very draining. And they said that actually Yoda
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in Attack of the Clones when he absorbs Dooku, forced lightning.
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That was very exhausting. And same in Revenge of the Sith.
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When he's fighting Sidious, it's very exhausting to deflect it
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and to project it, I guess, but. The argument about Ray like
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she's a fucking Palpatine, so if it can be transferred by, you
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know, so much shocking you. Clearly Palpatine is very good
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with forced lightning, so could it not be passed down through
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blood? It's the only explanation here.
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Yeah, I mean, if we're sticking to the Legends idea of how it's
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transferred, according to Canon, it doesn't need.
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You don't need to be electrocuted in order to do it.
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That was a Legends thing. So yeah, I don't know, it's it
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is, it is very confusing. It's very hard to keep track of
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everything. But yeah, it was interesting.
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At the same time, I had no idea how prevalent it is.
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Like it seems in the movies, you don't see it that often.
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It's very rare. Like Snoke uses it on Kylo run.
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I think Ray and Kylo use it around each other.
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Insidious. Well, I guess, I guess then if
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there's the dyad, they could. That makes sense.
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That's interesting. That's an interesting idea.
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I mean, they're both emotional. They're both.
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They both come from questionable lines of emotion.
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Looking at you, Han Solo. Looking at I was looking at
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Anakin, but you know. Comes on all sides for Ben Solo,
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honestly. I love Han of God and I don't
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know, I just it it cheapened it a little bit when she was a
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little surprised that she was using it, you know?
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And then she continued to use it.
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Wouldn't it like, wasn't your surprised at using it?
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Stop it. Almost.
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I don't know. I well, I mean it kind of just I
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would. You know what?
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You're right. Because I always think of it.
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It was just like a short burst. But she held on to that for
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like, I don't know, Maybe she didn't know how to let go.
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That's true. I'll give her that.
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But I don't know. If you don't know that you're
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using it, you don't know how to stop it at the same time till
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shit blows up. Shit.
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Right, and you know she didn't use it later on anybody else?
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Especially that when she was fighting Palpatine, she used
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lightsabers to deflect it instead.
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So. You know what?
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Maybe that's why they even put this in.
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A scene before she she goes up to Palpatine to introduce her to
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forced lightning prior to the big forced lightning that occurs
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coming from I'm I'm thinking from a film standpoint at this.
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You're right, Junction. That's giving them a lot of
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credit for having foresight. But you know well.
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I throw them a bone every now and then.
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That's all they're getting, though.
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Yeah. I mean it makes sense that well
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because. Here's how we're going to tie it
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all back around, all right? Luke had no idea forest
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lightning existed when he went to fight the Emperor.
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He was not prepared. He had no clue that it was
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coming. And and again, it's the
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novelization for Return of the Jedi says this.
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Which is not Canon anymore, technically, right?
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Like, what the fuck? Whatever.
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Yeah, OK. So in the novelization of Return
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of the Jedi, it says Palpatine raised his spidery arms towards
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Luke, blinding white bolts of energy coruscated from his
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fingers, shot across the room like sorceress lightning, and
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tore through the boys inside looking for ground.
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The young Jedi was at once confounded and in agony.
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He had never heard of such a power, such corruption of the
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Force, let alone experienced it. But if it was force generated,
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it could be force repelled. Luke raised his arms to deflect
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the bolts. Initially he was successful.
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The lightning rebounded from his touch harmlessly into the walls.
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Soon, though, the shocks came with such speed and power they
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coursed over him and into him, and he could only shrink before
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them, convulsed with pain, his knees buckling, his power to ebb
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so. He didn't know about it, but
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also, he's so fucking good as a Jedi and I love him so much that
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he figured out a way of trying to protect himself.
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But you know, ultimately Sidious was too strong for him.
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Yeah, he's got too many years of doing corrupt shit, yeah, to you
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know. So I don't know, like, why
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didn't Yoda tell him why? Why?
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Why let him go into that with no warning?
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I don't know. I I don't know why was so much
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left out. I Luke had to.
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Luke learned the hard way and he's still not a bitter bitch at
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the end of it, You know what I mean?
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He still kept his grace about him and that's why we love him.
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My question is, I mean our question is, was there any harm
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done? Now let's separate it from
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physical and mental, because that had to leave.
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Like to me, I know I don't finish my sentences, but that's
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because my brain goes faster than my mouth.
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To me, it seems as though I would wake up with nightmares of
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this because it is a twisted way of utilizing the Force and it's
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ugly and it's angry and it's not natural, you know?
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It's not the way that. Luke and any other good Jedi
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uses the Force. That shit would haunt me.
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Absolutely and everything I read said Palpatine is strong enough
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to kill him immediately and so the fact that.
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He So he tortured him. Yeah, he didn't kill him.
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He played with him. I hate that the.
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Most when it's because Luke was very and I didn't want to use
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the word proud. That's not what I mean.
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Like, he was sure of himself. He had declared himself a Jedi,
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and so Palpatine was like. Here are the consequences of
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your choice and enjoyed that a little too much.
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And it it, it just adds like a little bit more evil to it, you
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know? For sure.
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I mean, it's mall all over again.
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It's what mall loved to do, you know, Right.
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Did mall ever use Force Lightning?
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I don't think so. I don't think.
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So but it was used on him. City is.
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So this is the other thing too, right?
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So we've seen Mall tortured by cities.
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We've seen Luke tortured by cities.
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We've seen Anakin tortured by Duku by multiple times.
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Oh yeah, multiple times. And like the list goes on, no
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one has been scarred except for Cidias.
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Is it because he's the embodiment of what that
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symbolizes? Yeah, I mean that was my initial
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thought was that. It revealed his true nature and
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because. That's.
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Luke's true nature is goodness. There was nothing to reveal.
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But that's a theory. There isn't anything in Canon
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that says that for sure. Some people have said that
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cities was using a mask, a Sith mask, like they call it Sith
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alchemy. Where he like because using the
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dark side over time does corrupt you visibly.
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I mean you see it in Anakin right away in Revenge of the
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Sith, right? His eyes turn red and he's very
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like tormented. Over time it continues to
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degrade your appearance. And so they said in this article
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I read that Sidious used Sith alchemy to change himself, like
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on a molecular level, so that he could continue to look normal in
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the Senate. And then when he had the Force
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lightning, it broke the spell. Sort of.
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I can believe that I just the stuff that Palpatine had going
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on all at once, at all times. How?
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How is he not tired just? That that's just.
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I'm just curious. He's like casting beauty spells
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on himself. He's He's controlling the
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Senate. He's controlling the.
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He could have tried harder with that mask.
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I know he was trying to come off as an old senator, but come on,
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you could have done something better with that hair.
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If you could have chosen anything, that's what you chose,
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OK? It's it's it's so you can look
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past it so easily. As not threatening that that's
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probably why he went with. That's true.
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You know, whatever. He wants to come across as
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unthreatening as possible. And he did.
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You know. But I find it interesting that
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forced lightning was used on mall, and mall never used it.
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In return for as angry and pent up and emotional and ragy as
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Small is he never once like burst into flames or like.
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Used lightning. He never thought to like play
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with Satine with forced lightning.
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I wonder if there was such a part.
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Like City is just so bad, right? That mall for everything awful
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that he is. He still had enough in him to be
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like, you know what, I'm just, I'm just not gonna use that.
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I'm gonna go with a different route, you know.
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What I mean, I mean, he had it used on him, so maybe he knew.
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Yeah, like, I'm not fucking with this.
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It's a good well, and it could be as practical as the fact that
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maybe his legs were electrical. Yeah, it's true.
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It This is true. Yeah.
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But I'm thinking I just, I'm giving a little credit to mall
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to be like, you know what, I didn't like that.
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So I'm just I'm gonna use a different method, you know?
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But I I do find it interesting, if you want to compare mall to
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say, Ray, which there is no comparison.
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I'm just saying in in terms of force lightning, she just burst
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out with it. And if there's anyone who can't
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control his rage, it's mall. Because he lives in it, he
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breathes it, he lives for it and it's all directed at one person.
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I'm surprised he didn't just like, come out with it.
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Can help me it? Was just totally electrifying
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stuff because he couldn't contain it.
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He would be like that glass ball in a Science Center that you put
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your hand on and like, you know the one.
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It's like static. It's like static.
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It's safe, static, but it's just that's small.
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Oh my God, that's hilarious. Wait, can we talk about actual
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lightning? Yes, please, because it has no
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sense. I was going to say it has no
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place here. There's nothing about real
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lightning in the mechanics and physics of lightning that makes
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any sense in the scifi world, which I I will say I'm 100% OK
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with. Yeah, some things need to be fun
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for the sake of being fun, so I'm going to be the opposite of
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fun right now. So for those of you who don't
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know, I'm an atmospheric scientist specializing in
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meteorology, and lightning is a core component of that field.
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It's a thing. And as a 10 year old child, I
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read an entire book on electrical charges for fun.
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Let that sink in. As Hugh says, clacks on alert.
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Nerd alert. Nerd alert, Thank you Hugh.
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Sound the alarm. So.
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Well, honestly, everyone's heard the static electricity
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comparison, right? It's one charge.
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There's a negative charge and a positive charge, protons and and
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electrons. That's essentially what's going
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on. In a cloud.
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You have ice crystals and waters, water droplets and all
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these things rubbing against each other.
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Because in a cloud, there's an updraft and a downdraft that
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causes a continuous turnover of the water droplets and ice
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crystals, depending on how high. In altitude, your cloud grows,
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so thunderstorms typically can get to about 30 thousand, 40,000
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feet high in in the atmosphere. So there's a lot of think of it
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as like a giant column of a bunch of positive and negative
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charges rubbing against each other that causes essentially
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static electricity, That's, you know, the charges rubbing
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against each other, friction, all this stuff, boom,
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electricity. So you can have three different
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types of lightning. There's cloud to air because
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everything has a charge. Everything around you has a
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charge. You can have cloud to cloud, so
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within a cloud or an adjacent cloud, the positive and negative
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charges. Or you can have cloud to ground.
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Something on the ground has the charge that connects to like a.
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Person like a person. Now here's where it gets really
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interesting. Lightning doesn't just strike
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straight down, it ignites a charge from the bottom.
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So let's say the person on the ground connects to the lightning
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in the cloud. A little tiny charge will go
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upwards out of you like forced lightning, and connect with the
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lightning bolt. Now it's so tiny that it looks
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like a lightning bolt just strikes the ground right?
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Like straight down from top to bottom.
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But there is a tiny charge that comes up from you and it
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connects. Oh, that's so crazy.
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I never knew that. Well, it happens so fast that
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sometimes if you have the right camera at the right time, you
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can see it. It's a little it comes up and
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meets. That's crazy.
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Here's where I want to put it into Return of the Jedi.
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You know, let's let's bring it back to Star Wars.
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They say they being us, the scientists, if you're standing
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on the ground, you have a better chance of surviving than if
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you're laying on the ground. So think of Luke, right?
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Sidious goes after him with the forced lightning and he lays
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down. He would have had more of a
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chance of dying right there on that floor laying down then he
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would have if he was standing up.
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And the reason is you have two points 2 feet on the ground.
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You have two points for the the charge to to discharge out of
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you. So it's split if you're laying
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on the ground the distance between your head and your feet.
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It has to come out right. There's a longer path, so it
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it's 1.1 point to end and one point to the other end, and in
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doing so it would like go through your entire.
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So it's just burning holes through you?
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Is that the whole? Is that what you mean, Traveling
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so fast that it would have more damage caused because it's going
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through all of you instead of just down through Because the
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lightning wants to get out of whatever it's hitting as fast as
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possible, so you have to have a way.
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That's why some places have lightning rods on the top of
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their their you know that you wanted to hit and completely go
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out before it has a chance to travel down the length of the
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entire whatever, right? So if you can disperse that
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charge in the proper manner, you have less damage.
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So if Luke's laying on the ground, and I believe it was a
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metal floor, Vader would have been crisped right up with him.
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The whole thing is a wash. So with the Emperor then,
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wouldn't he? Because it would be the the
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whole. So this is very interesting.
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Look it up if you want. If you've never seen a ground
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charge, if a lightning bolt hits a field, it will spread out like
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like fingers. Like thin lightning fingers.
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And that's how cows in an adjacent field end up dying from
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a lightning strike that doesn't hit them directly, but the
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charge moves through the ground and goes through the first thing
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that it can. That's that's bleak.
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So Insidious would have went down with them.
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So the whole thing is so crazy to me.
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But I'm fine with it. Like I said, I'm fine with it
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because it's it's science, it's fun, it's science fiction, it's
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play time, it's make believe, whatever, right?
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I do wonder if I may just play around with this a little bit
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with the thought of Luke on the ground.
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What if the Force wraps you in a protective like like so?
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It doesn't. That's travel.
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That's the thought I had too. Yeah, yeah, I'm just playing
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around with an idea here that the Force works in mysterious
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ways, we'll say. And if and Luke blocked it for a
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time, he did a fairly good job of blocking it for a time.
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For not knowing any of this, for not being told any of this did
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pretty good. But what if the Force?
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Like it's got to dissipate somehow?
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So I wonder if the force is part of that.
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Yeah, I mean, if if lightning in Star Wars is the physical
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manifestation of the Force. Then there's got to be a way
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like Yoda literally just absorbed it into his hand,
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right? Right.
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Wild. There's a term for it, and I
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cannot pronounce it. It's the Star Wars term called
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Tuta Manus or something like that, and it's it is definitely
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a Legends thing officially, but it is, quote an umbrella title
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used by the Jedi Order to classify Force abilities related
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to energy absorption. So yeah, even as initiates,
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they're taught this technique. But of course, you know this is
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on a much larger scale, which is why Yoda can do it.
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It's wild that Yoda can even do that.
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I mean, what a boss. That little.
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That little thing. Well, think about it like like
25:55
if you go with real science, matter and energy can neither be
25:58
created nor destroyed. So that had to go somewhere, I
26:03
know that. That's why I'm wondering, is the
26:04
Force helping with it? Because it's got to be
26:07
discharged in some manner. It has to go somewhere into
26:13
Yoda's little three fingers, like I don't.
26:16
It was his gimmer stick with his grounding rod.
26:18
It was the gimmer stick. It's a it's a lightning rod.
26:21
It functions as a fucking lightning rod.
26:26
Oh God. He walked around with it, just
26:27
in case, and he went to Dego Ba, which is the most stable
26:32
atmosphere I've seen in a planet.
26:36
There is no it's constant Stratus.
26:39
We'll say there's no, you know, giant storms brewing.
26:42
So he went to the one place where it was stable enough that
26:44
he didn't have to worry about it.
26:48
Number electrifying or electrocuting?
26:52
We haven't even talked about how hot lightning is.
26:55
Well, yeah, the heat alone. This.
26:57
This shit's nuts. 54,000 degrees Fahrenheit, or 30,000 degrees
27:02
Celsius. You're dead.
27:07
Yeah, like there's no way that Lucas survived this in real
27:11
life. No way in hell.
27:12
So it has to be the force. He doesn't have a scar, He
27:15
doesn't have anything. He's able to get up and go over
27:18
to his father. Yeah, because even if you
27:21
survive a lightning strike, don't you have a burn entry and
27:24
exit like you have usually a hole in your toe and like one on
27:27
your finger or something like that?
27:29
Well, black fingernails, You know, it has to.
27:32
It's, it's singes. You.
27:34
Yeah. It literally burns you up, yeah.
27:37
So in Legends. Actually I had never knew this
27:41
because I haven't read that many Legends books, but apparently
27:44
forced being hit with forced lightning actually makes you
27:48
sick, like compromises your immune system.
27:51
So Luke actually got really sick after Return of the Jedi in
27:56
Legends books. Makes total sense to me.
27:58
You. Know what I mean?
27:59
Like the fact that he has like kill the biomes.
28:02
Of right you gut. The poor man would have diarrhea
28:05
for weeks. Sorry Luke, I just outed all of
28:12
your intestinal problems post return of the job I.
28:15
Prefer to just believe he was just fine, Nothing was wrong?
28:19
Oh no, he was fine. He didn't poop his pants.
28:21
There's no Vader. Dannis.
28:27
God. That's not true, because they're
28:31
like far jokes in every Star Wars movie, which I find really
28:33
disappointing. But that's just me.
28:38
There is no pooping in Star Wars.
28:39
There isn't. Is that our new motto?
28:44
Yes. There's no pooping in Star Wars.
28:45
There isn't. Star Wars is pain and there's no
28:48
pooping. in Star there's no pooping.
28:53
How did How did this go from fucking forced lightning to
28:58
pooping one's pants, we have raised the new.
29:03
My mom is turning this off right now.
29:09
We apologize to all the parents out there.
29:13
Not a fan of poo jokes, but this is making me laugh pretty good,
29:16
so maybe I well, listen, it's science, right?
29:20
You would think if someone got hit with that much freaking
29:22
lightning. Everything be fucked.
29:26
Totally. And and and we talked about it
29:28
at the panel in London about the Thunder aspect because when you
29:32
have that much heat separating the air literally separates the
29:37
air comes back together. Bang, that's Thunder.
29:40
They don't be too like just it'd be a cacophony of, you know,
29:45
constant invaders helmet would be ringing and so there's a lot
29:49
going on. That's why Vader killed the
29:50
Emperor. He couldn't take the noise
29:52
anymore. He couldn't take it.
29:54
It's too long. No, no, it's too much noise.
30:01
God, I'm too old for this. So something that I did think of
30:08
because they were saying that in order to have forced lightning,
30:11
you need to have been struck with forced lightning in
30:13
Legends. Yeah, it made me think of
30:15
stories I've heard of people who are struck multiple times by
30:19
lightning throughout their lives where it's like.
30:22
You get hit once and then your probability of getting hit again
30:25
goes up and it's crazy. I heard some reason like this
30:28
guy got hit like 12 times and like his wife left him because
30:31
she was too afraid to be near him because he got hit all the
30:34
time. It's crazy.
30:37
I get that. That's that's a walking static
30:40
charge. Again, it's I don't, I don't
30:42
have an answer for any of that. I think it's fascinating though,
30:45
because I do know someone in my field related to my field who
30:52
was hiking and got hit by lightning and I think he got hit
30:56
twice. Holy shit at the same time, but
30:58
like 2 hikes he went on. That's.
31:01
My question is, hold up. You ever hear the old phrase
31:05
when Thunder roars go indoors? Why are we out hiking when
31:09
there's a chance for lightning? I'm just asking.
31:12
Well, I have heard of people getting hit by lightning, like
31:14
in their kitchen doing dishes during the store.
31:16
Yeah, I mean, if you have the charge and you're in the right
31:20
place at the right time, you're not stopping it.
31:21
However, if you're out and your hair on your arm unexplicably
31:25
starts to stand up, get somewhere safe.
31:28
It's a good sign that something's.
31:30
That's good to know. That's a good trick.
31:32
What about like someone like me who has a window in their
31:35
shower? I I think the chances are so
31:38
low, honest to God. But water is not a great thing
31:42
to be in when there's lightning. So I would just, you know, wait
31:44
10 minutes, wait, no, shit's going down.
31:48
We were the storm to pass before you take a shower.
31:50
Yeah, just just just to be on the safe side.
31:53
I mean, it's one of those things is just like the chances are so
31:57
low and yet there are so many deaths and I see it out here all
32:02
the time. We get storms and we hear about
32:04
entire fields of cows just being killed.
32:07
It's so sad. It's very.
32:09
I never knew that. I guess it makes sense.
32:12
It's not like you can bring your livestock in if they're out
32:14
grazing out in a really huge field.
32:16
That would be very difficult to do at the last minute, you know,
32:20
warning of a storm. So it's it's pretty.
32:23
And then there's the thing called the bolt from the blue,
32:26
which is the storm could be many, many miles away.
32:30
And a lightning bolt can and will reach out many, many miles
32:35
away from the center of the storm where there's the most
32:38
charge and still strike someone like people on a beach have
32:43
reported. It was clear around me and we
32:46
got hit by lightning and it's like, how the hell does that
32:49
happen? But it can't happen.
32:50
Well, I'm never, never leaving my house again, so that's good.
32:53
I mean, this is not, that's not to say don't leave your house
32:56
again. I'm just saying like, you can be
32:58
smart and be prepared. And if it's if you got the
33:02
charge, there's no, there's no stopping it, just just have to.
33:07
Be safe. It just means Palpatine was
33:09
ready for you and it's your time.
33:12
Yeah, he's looking, He's watching, yeah.
33:15
And he's aiming. Palps blame Palps.
33:21
Yeah, everything is always his fault.
33:23
Always. Somehow Palpatine is returned.
33:35
So our question for you this week, It's pretty
33:38
straightforward. Why do you think Luke was not
33:41
scarred by forced lightning? There is no cannon answer, so
33:44
just tell us your thoughts. Like make up something.
33:47
I don't care. Just yeah.
33:49
Yeah. Do you think the Force had
33:51
anything to do with it, or is it just pure Luke?
33:54
Yeah, he's the purest form of Luke Skywalker being pure.
33:59
Exactly. Or anybody who's been hit by
34:01
Force lightning. It doesn't have to be Luke.
34:03
What's the theory? Tell us your thoughts.
34:08
Oh, next week is special. Next week's episode is very
34:12
special. It's Lauren interviewing.
34:16
Just author extraordinaire Beth Revis is joining the Most Things
34:25
Kenobi show. I unfortunately was unable to
34:28
make the recording for this, and I will forever be very sad that
34:33
I was unable to make this. So you want to give your
34:37
thoughts on the next week's episode?
34:39
I mean it was it was sad to do it without you.
34:41
I was definitely like having to re prepare myself quickly.
34:45
But it was cool. She gave us a lot of insight on
34:48
what it's like to write for Star Wars.
34:51
She got to. Read the Rogue One script before
34:55
anyone else. She told me all about that.
34:57
It was really cool. We talked about the Princess and
35:00
the Scoundrel. We talked about her new book
35:03
that's coming out called Night of the Witch, which sounds
35:06
fucking awesome and is based on a real historical event that I
35:09
had never heard of and a lot of people had never heard of.
35:12
So that was really fun to talk about it.
35:14
So yeah, I'm really excited to share this because.
35:18
Not only is it cool to get that insight, but for anybody who's
35:21
creative or anyone who has a dream, she talks about how she
35:24
became a Star Wars writer or just a published author in
35:27
general. It was.
35:28
It's a really. I think it was a really
35:29
inspiring conversation, so I'm excited to share it with
35:32
everyone. I'm excited to listen because I
35:35
wasn't there, so I'm tuning in as a fan of you and Beth, so I
35:40
can't wait. Please join us next week and
35:42
give Beth Revis the love that she absolutely deserves.
35:48
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35:51
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