Star Wars in one day?

Television, Movies Games and Books Star Wars
#1

I just watched Star Wars with the lovely wife…and I had a thought I had never considered…

…did the events of Star Wars occur in one day? Well, from Luke’s point of view. Besides our intro…R2 escapes and a new day starts…

  1. Luke, 3P0 search for R2 (early morning)
  2. Luke finds R2 (early morning)
  3. Luke meets Sandpeople (early morning)
  4. Obi-wan finds Luke (early/mid morning)
  5. Obi-wan takes Luke to his house (mid morning)
  6. Luke discovers Aunt and Uncle deep fried (mid morning)
  7. Cantina (noon)
  8. Leave Tatooine (early afternoon)
  9. Reach “that’s no moon” (mid afternoon)
  10. Par-tay on the Deathstar (late afternoon)
  11. Get to Rebel base (early evening)
  12. Launch attack (evening)
  13. Blow up Deathstar (evening/late evening)

Make sense?

#2

edited because I apparently can’t read

#3

i think that everything from the cantina to escaping the death star could conceivably happen in a day, but i think i’ve always assumed that the rebel attack took place at least a day or two after leia got back to the alliance leadership.

#4

is the Death Star capable of light speed? it would have to be, wouldn’t it? not much of a threat otherwise

#5

Isn’t Luke staring out into the sunset at one point and there’s talk about he’s supposed to take the droids to some other place “the next morning”?

#6

i believe from what i read in the new “Death Star” novel, it does have hyperdrive capabilities.

#7

Luke also said that he could not go to get R2D2 to the next morning because it was unsafe at night.

#8

I’m pretty sure the film took place over quite a while. FTL travel in Star Wars is fast but Tatooine to Alderaan to Yavin is not one day of travel.

Come to think of it, though, it didn’t take place over a giant span of time… I always assumed a month or so, but even that might be too long.

#9

Solai, I think you’re right in that the movie doesn’t really show time elapsing - it’s not like we see Han saying, OK people lights out. But one would think that it would take the Rebels awhile to analyze the data Leia brought and plan the attack. It’s just not presented that way. :slight_smile:

#10

I too have always been confused about the time issue in the series, and usually chalk up discrepancies to the time it takes to fly between planets. Which should take on the order of a number of hours if not a day or two. There was one point however in Ep 3, and of course now I can’t remember the specifics, that seemed to imply that one could fly to a distant planet and back in an afternoon…(Confusing, those prequels can be…)

The time line I’ve always been more confused by is Empire. From Han and Leia’s perspective it seems like it should only last about 2-3 days, however by Luke’s perspective it seems like it should be a couple of months. I now suspect that it took a number of days if not weeks for the Millennium Falcon to limp to Besben without its hyperdrive…

#11

yea, especially when Luke seems to do half his training with Yoda while the others are hiding out in the asteroid worm.

#12

I’d say at best the movies take about a few weeks in each episode. Seriously the most glaring time issue is in Episode 3. Look at how fast everyone arrives at Mustifar(SP?). It takes Padme all of like two scenes to reach the planet. Then at the end Palpatine just pops up on Mustifar and returns to Courscant in a few scenes. I guess that’s just movie making. You skip those in between transit scenes that are not important.

#13

I’m right there with you Phil. Hadn’t thought about ANH taking a day- day from the morning Luke wakes up to look for R2- but there sure is a strong case for it. I think Yoda got those clones to the fight pretty quickly in AOTC. I mean, I understand the different space runs, but still…

#14

All the plot characters have plot engines… Which move at the speed of plot. It’s fascinating technology, really.

#15

LMAO

That’s great Mage. :stuck_out_tongue: