Quote Originally Posted by griffin View Post
The thing that bugged me about the prequels is that they didn't make Obi Wan old enough... because he looked at least over 70 in Ep4, but if Obi Wan looked to be about 25 in Ep1, he would would still only look about 55 based on the estimates by Goktimus above.

Unfortunately, I think they needed to show Obi Wan as a padawan first in Ep1, but it wouldn't make much sense that he'd still be one at about 40 if they start their training by the age of 5. (unless he was a reeeeally slow learner )
The amount of time that passes between the prequels and original trilogy never quite made sense to me. It's roughly 20 years, canonically, yet people who are clearly more than 20 years old talk about the Jedi as if they are from the long past, and possibly mythical, rather than in living memory.

But the Imperial officer who says "Don't try to frighten us with your sorcerer's ways, Lord Vader. Your sad devotion to that ancient religion has not helped you" was clearly old enough to have seen holovids of the Emperor talking about the assassination attempt on him by the Jedi that birthed the Galatic Empire.

(Same thing happened in TFA, I thought Luke Skywalker was a myth, but 30 years later and coming from a woman orphaned on a desert planet makes more sense.)