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johngnova
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I don't see how it could be much less than that. Obi-wan is only in his early 30's by Episode 2, and he looks at least 70 in ANH. Anakin is 20 or 21 and looks about 60 when we see his 'ghost' in ROTJ.
But if Luke and Leia are in their early 20's by ANH (I remember various sources at the time giving Luke's age as 21 and Leia's as 18, which we now know is wrong, of course), that means Anakin and Padme wait 20 years to have children. Not that they couldn't have kids at 41 and 49, respectively, especially with scientific advancements, but it still seems odd they'd wait so long. My explanation is that they did have other children but they were killed, and that Luke and Leia are clones, or at least test-tube babies.
But the age situation raises other problems. We are looking at a 20-year period between AOTC and the birth of Luke and Leia, and they're probably going to put all these events
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ukmasterit
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Here's another strange thing: The actor who portrayed Anakin/Darth in ROTJ (Sebastian Shaw) was actually 9 years OLDER than Alec Guinness. Figure that one out.
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banksy
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Considering that there is a 32-year gap between Episodes 1 and 4, and a 10-year gap between Episodes 1 and 2, I would guess that there is a 22-year gap between Episodes 2 and 4. Assuming that the gap between Episodes 2 and 3 is only a couple of years, this would put the gap between the trilogies at about twenty years.
Oh, and there is a problem with Obi-Wan's age anyway. In the Phantom Menace novel, Qui-Gon Jinn claims that Obi-Wan is in his mid-20s. Obi-Wan claims, after Qui-Gon's death, that he had known Qui-Gonn for over 20 years. In one of the Jedi Apprentice books, Obi-Wan was almost 13 when he met Qui-Gon. So this would make Obi-Wan 33 at the very least at Qui-Gon's death.
Add 32 years between Episodes 1 and 4, and he could be 65 or so in Episode 4. (Alec Guiness was born in 1914, so that's close.) This does not fix Qui-Gon's assuming that Obi-Wan is in his mid-20s, but everything else falls into place. Still... Obi-Wan looks 25 in TPM.
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