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Hello there. Somehow, Star Wars memes have returned. It's not a trap, this is where the fun begins.
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Qui-Gon: Credits will do fine. [while attempting a mind trick]
Watto: No, they won’t.
Qui-Gon: Credits WILL do fine.
Watto: No, they won’t.
Qui-Gon: [Walks down street to money exchanger] Trade me these credits for Hutt bucks [Does mind trick]
Money Exchanger: Okay!
[Qui-Gon returns to Watto]
Qui-Gon: Here's a pile of Hutt bucks. Sell me a functional hyperdrive.
Watto: Okay!
[Roll credits]
The thing with the Jedi mind trick is that only Jedi's think it works.
Everyone else just see a scary lightsaber guy asking them to repeat a sentence and are more than happy to comply if it means they get left alone.
There's a limit to how much you can pretend though.
Letting an old man and a kid drive through a checkpoint? Fine, someone else's problem.
Selling an obvious narc deathsticks? Yeah, maybe going home and rethinking your life is the right call here.
Handing over all your life savings for a bad deal? Uh, no actually.
"These aren't the droids you're looking for."
"Yeah, sure, whatever you say, man. I just work here."
"I'm not even supposed to be here today!"
And stormtroopers are supposed to be very disciplined and resistant to bribery.
Resistant to bribery, yes. Not resistant to light sabers.
Look dude I'm just here on bring your clone to work day
Look, they pay them to man the checkpoint. They don't pay them enough to deeply care about every benign person passing through...
Is it a bad deal though? Are credits worthless to money changers in this context?
I took it more like galactic credits are banned on Tatooine , and no trader who didn't want any trouble with the Hutts would be dealing with them. Taking them on would be a world of trouble, like fencing stolen goods
Thanks for explaining it. I'm not well versed on Star Wars. Seems like a galatic credit would have huge value compared to a local currency and someone would take that risk. Like trying to use USD in Argentina last year, illegal but worth it.
That's not a bad explanation.
I could see your perception of it changing based on how you watched the movies. If your first time watching the movies was in numerical order, you might come away thinking the Jedi mind trick doesn't work very well. It's not really explained until episode 4. IIRC, it's shown two times in the prequels, once against Watto (which fails) and once against a rando drug dealer in a bar (which works). It later works against Bib Fortuna but not Jabba.
The explanation of "works against the weak minded" doesn't come until you're several hours in. If the movies were produced in that order, it would almost come off like a cop out explanation.
Wait why do they need to mind trick a money exchanger? Isn’t it just their job to exchange money? You just need to hand them the credits. OK maybe you’ll get gouged on the exchange rate but it’s not like they were poor. Alternatively I’m sure there’s something of value on a fancy vessel that they could just sell.
Why not just trade the fancy vessel for a less fancy but functional vessel. I'm sure the queen could afford it.
My boss would not appreciate me swapping a company car for a beat up prius. Imagine Mace Windu's scowl
Isn’t the ship the queen’s? It’s a Naboo diplomatic ship.
Ope yeah. Its been a while🤦♂️
Doesn't matter. Mace Windu can still scowl.
Fuckers were trying to stop a planet blockade, you guys, someone could have been blockading our planet for billions of years and we'd only have noticed this week.
Just for shits and giggles
They didn't need to mind trick the money exchanger, they just did it cause it's fun mind trick hand wave
Yeah... why the fuck didn't he do that? I mean the place he was in was hosting a giant ass pod racing championship with tons of visitors, are you expecting us to believe that no one would appreciate republic credits there?
It would be like if you time traveled to 2001 and tried to spend USD with some drug dealer in some backwater country and they laughed in your face... are you kidding me? USD then and now (though it might be in decline) is often preferred to local currency.
The Republic in ep 1 is about to get in a war with the Trade Federation over taxes. If a group of space traders think they can win a fight against the galactic government, then maybe the economy is poor and Republic credits aren't trusted.
Not in Episode 1... that war wouldn't start until many, many years later. At that time it was a highly localized trade dispute that even the Jedi didn't think was that big of a deal until they tried to kill them.