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I kind of wonder, Yoda and Obi-wan went poof when they died and became Force ghosts. Anakin didn't but became a Force ghost after cremation. Is there something where the physical body of a Force user has to be atomized/vaporized/turned to smoke before their Force ghost can roam free and until then they're stuck hanging out with their bodies?

The first person to say "a Force ghost is just a cloud of free-roaming midichlorians retaining a personality" is asking for a punch in the teeth, jsyk.

No.

The old canon explained it as a skill that had to be mastered.

So how'd Anakin do it?

There's an exception if you create a suitable effigy and get enough people to worship it. In short: Ewoks.

(I don't know. Maybe Obi Wan's boring lectures were good for more than younger Anakin would ever admit.)

da

really? makes me glad the old book canon is defunct now with shit retcons like that.

nayrt

NO not really. Come on.

As much that had to be retconned, it's really not a good thing that the old canon is gone. At least, not for those of us who grew up with it and invested so much time in it.

When someone answers a question here without any indication of joking, I tend not to assume they're lying. Why would someone lie?

When their parenthetical begins "I don't know"?

The parenthetical isn't where the retcon statement is, and is unrelated to it. Statement about the retcon for force ghosts is a statement. Parenthetical is an unrelated point of uncertainty and conjecture based on the 'I don't know'

How is 'I don't know' an indication of joking? It's a preface of lack of concrete knowledge, followed by a theory.

When the statement made is absolutely bonkers and clearly a joke if you've got any background in the old canon????

Seriously.

The old canon has some bonkers shit. I'd think it might have been ewoks too.

The moment they clarified with "I don't know" it became apparent they were joking about the ewoks. And they themselves stated that maybe Anakin had learned from Obi Wan, making it clear that was just a guess.

I don't remember.

There's 100+ books. I think it had to be retconned.

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