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Originally Posted by getbak
He didn't say he'd never heard of the Force, he said he didn't believe that it controlled his life. "Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, and I've seen a lot of strange stuff, but I've never seen *anything* to make me believe that there's one all-powerful Force controlling everything. 'Cause no mystical energy field controls *my* destiny. It's all a lot of simple tricks and nonsense." Harrison Ford was in his mid-30s when he made Star Wars. Assuming Solo was roughly the same age, he would have been a teenager during the late years of the Republic. At one point, Lucas considered having a teen Solo in Episode III. |
Thank god he didn't that would have been the worst.
Still I believe the original point stands. Palpatine had basically banned any teaching about or discussions about the Jedi.
Even the people that had heard of them, probably didn't talk about them at all or tell their kids about them.