MovieChat Forums > Star Wars (1977) Discussion > What happened to Owen & Beru

What happened to Owen & Beru


What did the stormtroopers do to them to leave nothing but scorched skeletons? Would killing them and setting the home on fire be enough to do that?

reply

I never really understood that either since we are so familiar with the whole laser blast thing. Later on I likened them to having flame throwers and they burnt them, much like the squads of US soldiers who went around Vietnam looking for VC.

And I guess to leave the bodies as examples of what happens to sympathisers against the Empire.

reply

Maybe scavenger animals had been at the corpses.

reply

It looked cool on screen. Lucas never has been beholden to consistency or continuity.

reply

Did you know that...

Aunt Beru was made as a action figure?

Maybe the least 'action' action figure ever created.

reply

flame troopers perhaps ? shot on site then burnt to a crisp ?

reply

Didn’t some EU book or something say it was a thermal detonator?

reply

There's a theory that Boba Fett did it and this is the effect of the "disintegrations" that Darth Vader warns him about in Empire Strikes Back.

I've never personally held that theory (doesn't really seem to describe disintegrating somebody) but maybe it was a bounty hunter with brutal methods?

My personal theory is that they were trying to torture them to get information from them and maybe left the charred bones as a way to terrify Luke.

reply

It is all answered here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDuU3bzMZhY Starting at around 4:05.


reply

Ha!

reply

Classic!! This never gets old!

reply