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SmeaGolluMartin
January 19, 2021 at 10:34 pm
Noice! The explained peeps back at it again!
hellishlantern
January 19, 2021 at 10:39 pm
Should have used star wars theory. These people are very toxic
Doomslayer420
January 19, 2021 at 10:46 pm
Got that backwards there skippy.
HaoHean Chan
January 20, 2021 at 1:05 am
No, star wars theory is more toxic than them, that guy manipulated and lied to the entire fan base.
Don’t be triggered but this is real, I remembered he used to said he like TLJ and TROS, but he changed his opinion likely trying to give the fan base what the wanted
Michael Drake
January 19, 2021 at 10:56 pm
THEYRE BACKKKK
Max Smith
January 19, 2021 at 11:03 pm
Commented January 19th, 2,021:
My best favorite Star Wars Original Trilogy movie is The Empire Strikes Back. ❤
JORGE BLANCARTE
January 19, 2021 at 11:03 pm
How did no one ask “did Han or greedo shoot first”
ThatGuyCanmanNC
January 19, 2021 at 11:42 pm
Greedo shot first before they edited it and changed it to Han
Adam Reveland
January 20, 2021 at 1:05 am
Because these guys don’t take history seriously.
xxGALACTIKWARxx
January 19, 2021 at 11:04 pm
I kept thinking my stove was beeping until I found out it was the video.😂
stupid things
January 19, 2021 at 11:08 pm
Darth Nihilus is amazing
Grapefruit Simmons
January 19, 2021 at 11:12 pm
“Experts” 😂
Frost
January 19, 2021 at 11:14 pm
I feel like blindwave could’ve done this
phhsdj
January 19, 2021 at 11:31 pm
Love this can we keep being them back please
Joshua Klinck
January 19, 2021 at 11:42 pm
I absolutely with Mollie.
Mara Jade.
The canon needs more dark to light conversions.
Adam Reveland
January 20, 2021 at 1:08 am
Mara Jade isn’t cannon according to Disney.
Star Wars and D2 !
January 19, 2021 at 11:47 pm
For the first one, they actually had plenty of pilots that had already flown x-wings before but not enough x-wings.
Kaleb Nall
January 19, 2021 at 11:49 pm
Anikan was also conceived by the force so maybe that’s how.
Chazertron Fivethou-Sand
January 19, 2021 at 11:57 pm
This is effortless… Like true experts.
The Fan Boy
January 20, 2021 at 12:03 am
Do Harry Potter fans answer Harry Potter questions
Juan Felipe
January 20, 2021 at 12:11 am
Lmfao I just realized this was wired and not Star Wars explained
ClumsyVash
January 20, 2021 at 12:15 am
Why did you allow sjw nutjobs to take over the franchise and still support them after they have ruined the series
Oliver Plate
January 20, 2021 at 12:26 am
I love this video, especially them trying to explain away the mess that was the Rise of Skywalker. Its kinda hilarious to have to pretend that the people making that movie thought that deeply about anything that was going on, I mean they had multiple endings ready to go and didn’t know which one they would use until close to release.
No Name
January 20, 2021 at 12:27 am
According to The Star Wars Book, Snoke was a strandcast (artificial genetic strandcast) who possessed free will. Nevertheless, his actions and objectives were orchestrated by Darth Sidious.
Adam Reveland
January 20, 2021 at 1:07 am
Did the Star Wars Book also talk about how many transformations and rewrites RoS took?
Krutharth Vaddiyar
January 20, 2021 at 12:44 am
Imagine “Star Wars Expert” being ur job
HaoHean Chan
January 20, 2021 at 12:57 am
Both of them deserved more subscriber than star wars theory to be honest. No sequel hating, no clickbait, no drama, no changing opinion, less toxic comment and full of positivity
bask kev
January 20, 2021 at 1:09 am
1 was wrong. The order 66 one. In 2 of the new comics it’s shown that troopers walk near Vader and or inquisitors. But when a jedi, identifys them as jedi and uses the command they will attack them. Sounds more like clones have been programmed to think like, people have been identified as jedi, I have seen them use the force aka… They are jedi. Shoot to kill
Ben Drewry
January 20, 2021 at 1:12 am
Hey WIRED! Love your content!
SvenStereo
January 20, 2021 at 1:13 am
There’s nothing ‘unhealthy’ about the Jedi philosophy. They’re allowed to have emotions, but they’re expected to maintain sound judgement in spite of their emotions. This whole idea that they’re expected to repress them entirely is a hot-take with absolutely no merit. It only seems like a valid critique since so many adults now are really just petulant children who speak and act on impulse. They can’t achieve rationality, so they pathologize it.
Don Ngo
January 20, 2021 at 1:18 am
These people actually made fun of Star Wars theory
Zenith of Tempest
January 21, 2021 at 4:58 am
While the rule of 3 technically was broken by Palpatine, it was also broken by Vader in Legends, and by Dooku.
TheStarPlays தமிழ்
January 21, 2021 at 5:08 am
Where is theory , where IS star wars theory
Jeremy
January 21, 2021 at 6:05 am
make more and more of these
Nathan Cardall
January 21, 2021 at 6:32 am
I love it when Star Wars just doesn’t make sense, like with the Force ghost thing, but Star Wars fans can come up with an explanation that sounds plausible. As a fan that does this all the time, I respect it lol
Abrar Muhtasim Sajeed
January 21, 2021 at 6:42 am
Starwars fuckbois
SuperOmnicron
January 21, 2021 at 7:10 am
Why is Kathleen Kennedy so infantile and negative about Luke Skywalker’s appearance that torpedoed the launch of The High Republic series?
Cooper Greil
January 21, 2021 at 8:15 am
Answering prequel/OT questions: here’s the established lore, so based on that and the context, we can guess that the answer is *x*.
Answering Rise of Skywalker questions: ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Jay Luck
January 21, 2021 at 8:36 am
The Jedi weren’t that powerful.
Look how many fell during the Arena battle in Ep II
Look at the, “best” Mace had with him when they went to arrest the Chancellor.
Bob Conklin
January 21, 2021 at 10:30 am
One thing I never see mentioned is that Ben fights Vader to a standstill until he knows Luke is watching.
Luke’s first encounter with Vader is seeing him kill Ben.
Ben set that moment up, foreshadowing it with the comment about becoming more powerful than Vader could possibly imagine. The ultimate troll moment in Star Wars goes to old Ben.
kirby march barcena
January 21, 2021 at 11:12 am
The 1st Q & A was so successful that this happened. Congrats for you two!
David
January 21, 2021 at 11:45 am
The Empire brainswashed no one. Palps showed them the way through duty and allegiance to order!
#lltheempire
mishimihendrix
January 21, 2021 at 1:28 pm
Another fight where the “good rebel guys” won because they had a motif against the “evil technologically powerful” was The Battle of Stirling Bridge of the Scots vs the English, depicted in Braveheart 😀
Taro dbnb
January 21, 2021 at 3:00 pm
Tell me why when I heard him say Ben I thought Ben Kenobi first lmao 💀
Adrian
January 21, 2021 at 3:28 pm
The great awakening is here! Banned.Video
Igor Mokin
January 21, 2021 at 4:16 pm
Re why people in the galaxy all seem to know about Mando culture, I see Mandalorians as a diaspora minority, who are more or less familiar to people in general, but what the public knows of them is mostly stereotypes, that are also influenced by the specific branches of their creed present in a given region. “Oh, they don’t take their helmets off, it is known.”
Compare to ethnic stereotypes in our world.
Mehrdad Mirshamsi
January 21, 2021 at 4:58 pm
The empire and first order are better IMO
Tylor Schinzel
January 21, 2021 at 5:06 pm
Cutest Star Wars couple in the galaxy
JohannTheCreator
January 21, 2021 at 6:06 pm
6:33 I believe that took place before the events of Episode 3, so before the Jedi were actually hunted down and called traitors; they were still part of the Republic. I think the sisters didn’t trust the Jedi because all their experiences they had with them made them seem like elitists who didn’t care about the common people, to avoid spoiling too much.
JohannTheCreator
January 21, 2021 at 6:19 pm
7:13 Yeah, like he said, Snoke and Kylo were not Sith, they were just users of the dark side of the force. You don’t have to be both. Palpatine basically used Snoke as a tool to not get his own hands dirty, both in terms of gaining power back in the galaxy (first order) and having Snoke get killed by Kylo, sidestepping the tradition of having an apprentice kill his master, and then taking Kylo on as a direct apprentice in episode 9. Palpatine never wanted to end his reign of power.
WTJS
January 21, 2021 at 7:30 pm
These people are cancer
A Person
January 21, 2021 at 8:44 pm
Experts? Nah. These are shills, who check your safe box.
Alex Brooks
January 21, 2021 at 8:51 pm
Well of course the mandalorian is after the battle of jakku. The imperial officer in the episode second to last mentions “operation cinder” which lead to the battle of jakku shortly after
Christopher Chilton-Smith
January 21, 2021 at 9:38 pm
15:40 George messed up, too many details to keep track of, happens to the best of us. Use head canon 😆
Sean K.
January 21, 2021 at 11:10 pm
8:06 But they actually got weaker in the force.
Joan Galindo
January 22, 2021 at 12:53 am
I love this kind of videos. Please keep on doing them.
spacecowboy2606
January 22, 2021 at 1:54 am
There’s so many things in the Star Wars canon that don’t make sense though. Why’d Obi Wan age so fast on Tattooine? Why’d Molly post a crying gif to antagonise and bully another Star Wars Youtuber? How did Palpatine survive falling down the energy shaft? There’s SO many questions!
Admiral
January 22, 2021 at 5:14 am
also know as a nerd
Grimmz
January 22, 2021 at 8:02 am
Haha its funny because George Lucas based the Empire of the U.S. Military in Vietnam and they’ve only become more like the Empire
Clark Henkel
January 22, 2021 at 9:52 am
Another example of distrust and hate to the Jedi was when the bombing happened at the hangar and they had to hunt down the bomber. There were riots etc about it
Joshua Eastham
January 22, 2021 at 10:58 am
After
Karva Keisari
January 22, 2021 at 2:33 pm
Nerds.
GuilhermePlays 625
January 22, 2021 at 4:46 pm
19:52: Yes.
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January 22, 2021 at 6:11 pm
Can you imagine if Darth Bane had just wiped out the sith and was unfortunate enough to die of an infection?
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January 22, 2021 at 6:25 pm
Snoke wasn’t any of those things. He was simply a poorly written character. Just like most in the sequels.
Salvador Mancha
January 22, 2021 at 9:43 pm
In regards to the Jedi Pyre, I think it just depends on the Jedi and who is in attendence. In Queens Peril it is stated clearly that Padmé, her Handmaidens, Obi, and Anakin stayed until Qui-Gon became ash as a sign of respect and thanks for everything he did for them.
Exo
January 22, 2021 at 11:39 pm
The more I see them try to answer simple questions about contradictions the more I realize the Star Wars universe was not planned out ahead of time and the movies don’t care about established cannon. In 10-20s they will retcon the whole franchise again.
Juha Leinivaara
January 23, 2021 at 8:38 am
Very cool.
Mc Jethro Pov Tee
January 23, 2021 at 11:21 am
Yoda is about 700 in high republic, and I know it’s impossible but I keep imagining swole yoda, who’s all about the gains.
David Nobre
January 23, 2021 at 4:01 pm
4:30
also, there were some mandos who joined with the Empire, they were advertised as elite soldiers of the empire
so people knew who they were even if they never saw one irl
David Nobre
January 23, 2021 at 4:07 pm
6:35 yes! people weren’t happy with the toll of the war and they blamed the Jedi
I hope they dive into that in the badbatch series
David Nobre
January 23, 2021 at 4:23 pm
how are the jedi teachings unhealthy?
saffron monsoon
January 23, 2021 at 5:19 pm
Alex and Mollie are the nicest Star Wars fans online, which seems to be very difficult for many people to manage. Please hire them back on Wired for more videos!
Awkward Freak
January 25, 2021 at 10:28 am
“The nicest star wars fans online.” They made fun of Star Wars Theory for crying during the Luke scene in TM season 2 .
Admiral squidd
January 23, 2021 at 7:52 pm
I remember I read somewhere that for Vader. Obi wan came to him in his last seconds through the force and pulled him into the living force like he and yoda and partly quigon was in.
It could be that leia and Luke did the same for Ben.
Apache101
January 23, 2021 at 7:59 pm
Aussies back me up this dude looks like Rove Live yeah?
SAMCA San Andreas
January 23, 2021 at 10:07 pm
Wtf is a Star Wars moot?
Freelance Generalist
January 24, 2021 at 1:08 am
Star Wars is not relevant anymore (because it is horrible).
Leeza Belkina
January 24, 2021 at 1:26 pm
Will there be a Star Trek experts?!
E M
January 24, 2021 at 5:41 pm
19:50
The Lady Of The Lake.
It’s you. It’s me. It’s us.
gromitron1 gromitron1
January 25, 2021 at 1:50 pm
Obi wan trained with qui gon jinn. I feel sorry for anybody who has to explain the sequels those are a disastrous mess.
Sad Media
January 25, 2021 at 2:53 pm
Can we admit that the empire is the best path for the galaxy in star wars
Carlo De la Vera
January 25, 2021 at 3:04 pm
9:03 are we still talk about Sith or Disney lmao
Vee Clash
January 25, 2021 at 3:28 pm
Why did Ben die when using the force heal power to save Rey, but Rey can force heal anybody or even any creature without suffering any negative consequences at all?!
Diego Meringer
January 26, 2021 at 9:35 am
Most likely because he was closer to death than anything else, there was lots of smaller healing in the clone wars. And it’s not even close to the degeneracy in legends, as there was this guy who could resurrect anyone with no cost to him, and his nemesis learned this power and could resurrect himself when he was already dead
Jessica Ebanks
January 26, 2021 at 5:46 am
I fuckin love The Mandalorian and I’m not too much of a Star Wars fan
George M
January 26, 2021 at 6:26 am
I mean people might be subject to propaganda, but the jedi were leading the army in a massive war within the lifetime of most adults during the mandolorian. Even if they thought they were traitors the memories of like news reals, most people would have seen. Not knowing who Yoda was in the 20s ABY, is like not knowing who Patton was in the 70s.
Diamondplate
January 26, 2021 at 8:15 am
You are NOT even close to Mara Jade. Boo.
melony burns
January 26, 2021 at 10:42 am
About the force ghosts I think before with Yoda, Qui Gon and Obi Wan it took special training but latter with Vader, Luke and Leia they became force ghosts after dieing for a pure or good act
Fred Trunce
January 26, 2021 at 5:03 pm
“It happened in the Vietnam war” … you realize that the US is the empire in that situation, right?
Laurentius
January 27, 2021 at 7:24 am
Iirc Lucas explicitly compared the rebels with the viet cong
John Willis
January 27, 2021 at 4:46 pm
Yes. It was on purpose.
miriam ruth
January 27, 2021 at 6:07 pm
yea it’s still true?? the viet cong were the rebels… the us being the Bad Guys doesnt make the comparison any less accurate
Brett Baumler
January 28, 2021 at 5:22 am
That’s what he’s saying, yeah.
Kceam
January 26, 2021 at 5:19 pm
Most questions about the sequels can be answered by: Bad writing and no plan on what overall story they wanted to tell
Tara
January 26, 2021 at 5:48 pm
The Mandalorian definitely takes place well after the Battle of Jakku, during the 2nd season one of the characters makes reference to a series of events that culminate at Jakku and he does so as though it happened quite a while ago.
Jake Bursk
January 26, 2021 at 7:06 pm
Ben did have force ghost training, Yoda gave him the training and kenobi had 18 years to do it on Tatooine lol
Tores
January 26, 2021 at 8:38 pm
It’s pretty fuckin cool that Star Wars Explained are considered experts enough for The Wire to make an Experts Answer video with them!
Ryan Yefimov
January 26, 2021 at 9:00 pm
16:00 Its eluded to in Revenge Of The Sith that Obi-Wan and Yoda talk to Qui-Gon once they’re aboard the Tantive IV. #Obi-Wanknew
StarVault 67
January 26, 2021 at 9:32 pm
I love Star Wars Explained. Mollie is awesome she should do more on the channel. Its a shame you guys and Star Wars Theory have beef a colab would be so good
Elotaku90
January 27, 2021 at 1:25 am
It sounded like you two answered most of the questions with head canon vs just saying or admitting to the plot holes and bad writing.
Weaponized Cringe
January 27, 2021 at 7:06 am
The mental gymnastics used to justify the craziness of the sequels is admirable. In the future, you should just say all rules about the force and the universe of Star Wars are completely thrown out the window in the sequels and any attempt to be consistent with the past movies.
Magykfyre
January 27, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Alex and Mollie are icons!!!
RC Dune
January 27, 2021 at 12:47 pm
Oh look its the awkward phoney duo
Levente Kassai
January 27, 2021 at 12:58 pm
I think the clone wars movie does take place before the clone wars, because that’s when anakin and ahsoka first meet and become master and padawan
Syd Melody
January 27, 2021 at 4:29 pm
Yeah but certain episodes are set before the movie. Off the top of my head the episode Clone Cadets and Yodas first episode are certainly before the movie
Levente Kassai
January 27, 2021 at 5:05 pm
@Syd Melody that’s true, but still, i’d generally recommend that people watch the clone wars movie first, before watching the series. Provided that they’re not specifically watching it in chronological order
Conor McMaster
January 27, 2021 at 2:34 pm
I used to subscribe to that guy but I hate his face
Kyler Dowling
January 27, 2021 at 6:28 pm
21:35 Could be it helped Snoke with the Dark Side. It was a theory that Vader’s armor was painful. The Emperor did that to him and most likely to Snoke as well to fuel their being with pain, increasing their power with the Darks Side.
Bruceleeyourface
January 27, 2021 at 9:05 pm
Star Wars is a MESS because of Disney. Disney ruins every non-original IP they touch!
Rich Robinson
January 27, 2021 at 11:28 pm
I miss the EU. I feel like it almost killed Star Wars for me when they just trashed it. The mandolorian and rogue one saved my love of Star Wars. Correction- AND the clone wars!
Edgar Gomez
January 28, 2021 at 8:22 am
These are no Star Wars experts
Madison Badger
January 28, 2021 at 11:22 am
Brilliant discussion