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How did L* know where Baby Y* was? (Spoilers)

posted 3 years ago by FootOfDavros (6691)
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Once baby Yoda had hung up the long distance intergalactic telephone line his connection with whomever was on the other side (we later discover this was presumably Luke) is lost. He then gets taken away by those Iron Man rips offs.

Therefore how did Luke know exactly where Baby Yoda was? And additionally why didn't he turn up sooner? (i.e. before the entire time it took to go and get Bill Burr and go on that whole subsequent truck driving / killing innocent anti-Imperials in order to access the Imperial yellow pages, which tells the exact location of all your ships mission)

[–] Otter (24464) 3 years ago

I presume he could somehow sense Grogu through the Force, or was in mental contact with the sprat. Of course the latter wouldn't be much good, as what kind of toddler can tell you where they are?

We don't know how the Force works, which means that anything is possible, including being able to sense someone's location.

[–] FootOfDavros (6691) 3 years ago

So the intergalactic telephone box was only needed for initial contact and after that other Jedi can pick up on their internal GPS transmitters?

(I guess we have to assume Baby Yoda didn't know his GPS coordinates in order to telepathically send them to Luke since he was in a prison cell and a baby)

[–] Otter (24464) 3 years ago

Well, maybe the galactic telephone box was needed to alert Luke to Grogu's existence? And Luke could use the Force to guide him in the right direction?

Honestly, the less we know about exactly how the Force works, the better it works onscreen. I mean, we all hated learning about midichlorians.

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

You are assuming it was Luke. I think it was an android that was sent to snatch baby Yoda. The real Luke would have had a fucked up face from the time he was attacked on Hoth. This android's face was close to Luke's but clearly not scarred as it should have been. So we are left wondering if the CGI folks only had scenes from a New Hope to work with or if they purposefully created a shitty Luke that would be explained next season when the Mandalorian has to go trying to rescue baby Yoda from the android. Given the amount of money Disney will lose if they show can only push Mandalorian action figures and not baby Yoda dolls, I'm betting they explain it wasn't the real Luke.

[–] FootOfDavros (6691) 3 years ago

I thought he was supposed to look a bit different as he was five years older?

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

If you listened to what the pilot said when trying to piss off Gina in the ship they took over, he mentioned 2 death stars... that would imply that this was supposed to have happened after the first three Star Wars movies. So Luke should have looked older than he did in Return of the Jedi, but he didn't he looked more like he was between Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back.

[–] asom (6503) 3 years ago

Only that he was no Jedi between those 2 movies.

I think it was just bad CGI ...

[–] asom (6503) 3 years ago

A force user android? Neah.

That was Luke 100%.

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

It was an even more powerful android than the darktroopers... which didn't make a whole lot of sense as we see multiple droid running all over the damn show, and then these darktroopers can't be turned on until they are needed because they use so much power... well then it is possible the Android Luke with Force like power (actually miniaturized tractor beam technology) must require even more energy so they can only have one floating around the galaxy.

Or this crappy CGI Luke is just what happens when Disney replaces all their highly trained computer folks with a bunch of HB1's from India.... a less quality CGI, but hey it saved them some money so the CEO is happy.

[–] asom (6503) 3 years ago

And still looked way better than the CGI in WW84 :D

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

Oh how I wish I could un-see that god awful movie.

[–] PersistentViewer (1796) 3 years ago

Maybe every Force user has an "id tag" and Luke zoomed in on it, and kept his focus until he found him on the ship.

[–] kuatorises (7467) 3 years ago

Force Tracking Device. It's a new power.

How did L*** know where Baby Y*** was? (Spoilers)

How did L* know where Baby Y* was? (Spoilers)