It's May 25 here in Australia. TPM doesn't open here till June 3:-( However, I have already read the TPM book and story etc, so I'm familiar with what you (mostly) Americans are talking about, even though I haven't seen most of the visuals yet. IMHO, the disappearing trick is not related to whether you get a magic spirit body or not, as Anakin clearly gets one at the end of ROTJ, even though his body didn't disappear. (You get a magic spirit body when you die in front of Luke:-P ) Anyway, on Channel 10 here in Oz they recently showed a 2 hour documentary/infomercial about TPM where Liam clearly hints the Qui Gon will reappear in Episode 2, obviously in his brank spanking new magic spirit body. So the question of whether you have to 'disappear' at death to get the MSB is moot. It is likely, as speculated by others in this forum, that the _mode_ of death determines if you get to do the vanishing act. If you die peacefully, you get to disappear and get your MSB. If you die violently, no MSB till after they BBQ your remains, or so it seems. (O-B1 Kenobi did prepare himself for death, BTW, as clearly shown in ANH.) Might have something to do with having to purge those force-thingies from your body with fire, therby 'releasing' your spirit. If you prepare for death properly, IMHO you have a chance to 'naturally' release the force-thingies, and as they leave your body they transform it into the MSB. I dunno, maybe Lucas will make a movie about it, and call it "The Umpire Stikes Out", or something....;-)
Lucas has a tradition of including a reference to past films he made in his new films. THX-1138 was the name of a film he made once many moons ago, the number of the stormtropper who wasn't at his post in ANH, and THX is the name of Lucas' digital sound system for theatres. Consequently to see 1138 on the back of the droid sould not come as a suprise to those of us who've been around Lucas and his films since before a lot of y'all were born:-)
FYI, the landing bay on the DS mark 1 and Cloud City that the MF landed at were both numbered 327 (or 329? I can't recall).
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It's May 25 here in Australia. TPM doesn't open here till June 3 :-( However, I have already read the TPM book and story etc, so I'm familiar with what you (mostly) Americans are talking about, even though I haven't seen most of the visuals yet. IMHO, the disappearing trick is not related to whether you get a magic spirit body or not, as Anakin clearly gets one at the end of ROTJ, even though his body didn't disappear. (You get a magic spirit body when you die in front of Luke :-P ) Anyway, on Channel 10 here in Oz they recently showed a 2 hour documentary/infomercial about TPM where Liam clearly hints the Qui Gon will reappear in Episode 2, obviously in his brank spanking new magic spirit body. So the question of whether you have to 'disappear' at death to get the MSB is moot. It is likely, as speculated by others in this forum, that the _mode_ of death determines if you get to do the vanishing act. If you die peacefully, you get to disappear and get your MSB. If you die violently, no MSB till after they BBQ your remains, or so it seems. (O-B1 Kenobi did prepare himself for death, BTW, as clearly shown in ANH.) Might have something to do with having to purge those force-thingies from your body with fire, therby 'releasing' your spirit. If you prepare for death properly, IMHO you have a chance to 'naturally' release the force-thingies, and as they leave your body they transform it into the MSB. I dunno, maybe Lucas will make a movie about it, and call it "The Umpire Stikes Out", or something.... ;-)
Lucas has a tradition of including a reference to past films he made in his new films. THX-1138 was the name of a film he made once many moons ago, the number of the stormtropper who wasn't at his post in ANH, and THX is the name of Lucas' digital sound system for theatres. Consequently to see 1138 on the back of the droid sould not come as a suprise to those of us who've been around Lucas and his films since before a lot of y'all were born :-)
FYI, the landing bay on the DS mark 1 and Cloud City that the MF landed at were both numbered 327 (or 329? I can't recall).