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Are we ever giving any indication that being a moisture Farmers all that hard? Other than the fact that they have slaves, I’m sorry droids, to do most of the hard work for them what do they actually do? I mean harvesting moisture is about setting up an apparatus and just letting it pull moisture from the air right? He maintain the machines is that right?
Man, just existing on Tatooine is hard work.
-It’s a desert planet run by crime lords.
-The natives carry rifles and kidnap people just to torture them to death.
-There are little goblins driving tanks around the countryside stealing anything that isn’t sand.
-The sand is rough and coarse and irritating and it gets everywhere.
-Krayt Dragons
What 20 years of moisture farming does to a MF:
To be fair, I think just living on Tatooine does that to you:
Double suns take their toll on the skin
It’s all that sun. Turns youthful skin into aged leather.
He maintained the droids which maintained the machines. Working from home job.
Well, it’s always easy to do a little of something. When you are producing as an actual job, then that’s entirely different. Scale is a problem in it of itself. “Just maintaining” machines is actually a lot of work.
I’m sure it is for the droids
Especially since we see them buy second-hand droids that are decades old. Or assembling their own from scrap.
Uncle Owen definitely pretended he really needed Luke’s labor
You could tell he was acting
Honestly Star Wars is a made up story played by actors. Change my mind
It wasn’t just droids either, Owen’s dad had human slaves as well.
Very true.
They didn’t even flip a coin, Bail Organa was all “my wife and I always wanted a daughter” and wisked Leia away to Alderaan and they stuck Luke with the son of a slave owner who talked shit about Luke’s dad for Luke’s entire life. Owen didn’t even know that Anakin became Vader he was trying to make Luke feel bad enough to stay in the shitty circumstances he lived in.
The shooting womp rats for fun is starting to make sense now.
I’d be interested to see a ‘what if’ showing if Luke and Leia swapped childhoods
Would Luke be the tough one and Leia the whiney one? Because if they still had their original personalities, I wonder if a non-jedi trained Luke would have been able to resist the torture to find the location of the rebel base like Leia did.
No power in the universe can take the whiny out of Luke.
That was one of the few things episode 8 got right. Except Luke would go save his friends while whining.
Somehow the guy who grew up in a desert working on a farm in an environment meant for Fremen whined more than his twin sister who had a princess title. Mean it’s worth a bit of bitching afterwards when you get some perspective but get a bit of resilience from your upbringing.
