Going from being in your 30s to 50s living a hard life in the desert wastes will do this, yes. Is anyone surprised?
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Beru on the left is 16 (age of the actress, not of the character), Beru on the right is 57.
Man, some people aged quickly back then.
Saw the same thing watching a show from the early 70s. Most of the actors that were in their 50s looked absolutely wrecked. Like 50 going on 90.
Makes me feel better about myself, though lol.
Guessing it was a combination of smoking, lead exposure, air pollution, and not much sunscreen.
Yeah, true. Grandpa Guinness on the right is just 63 in that picture.
Lets see how we look like in our 60's with all the microplastics inside us ;)
But it shouldn't be worse than smoking, lead, smog and missing sunscreen
Similarly a lot of my 2x and 3x great grandparents looked better in their 60s, 70s, and even 80s than their kids and grandkids. Most of them wouldve been born in rural regions around the late 1800s so I suspect you are correct in what made folks age faster.
Age weirdness aside, I never realized how much young Beru looked like older Beru.
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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 ~~three~~ two on Tatooine.
Not just the skin, but the immune system and the DNA, too.
But vitamin D
Vitamin Death
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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.
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
The Darth Jar Jar theory makes everything clear.
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.
On my life I didn’t click the link but I know it’s that John Oliver episode and I’m scared to watch it because I love chocolate. I know that’s selfish but I don’t have a lot of just for me things I enjoy and I’m loathe to take one away.
That’s almost literally everything we consume in modern society. It all has costs that hurt someone along the way. Exploitation is a part of capitalism. Only you can draw your line in the sand.
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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.
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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?
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.
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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
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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.
How much better would Rogue One have been if they took a quick 20 minutes to explain how sand effects time dilation? But no, we gotta have some stupid hallway scene and emotional stakes. Unwatchable.
I was hoping for more about trade negotiations.
Right?! How many times do we give a shit about Alan Tudyk playing dead? Congratulations, you were likeable and we miss you now!
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
It's also been pointed out before that they also somehow can't produce good quality textiles either.
No, but if you want to make it rich in the Star Wars galaxy, be a cloak salesman. You will never go out of business selling cloaks in that galaxy.
If you impress Lando, you're doubly set. Man never met a cloak he didn't like.
Star Wars is an abject lesson on why you should not do prequels to long established IPs.
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