Going from being in your 30s to 50s living a hard life in the desert wastes will do this, yes. Is anyone surprised?
Beru on the left is 16 (age of the actress, not of the character), Beru on the right is 57.
Man, some people aged quickly back then.
Saw the same thing watching a show from the early 70s. Most of the actors that were in their 50s looked absolutely wrecked. Like 50 going on 90.
Makes me feel better about myself, though lol.
Guessing it was a combination of smoking, lead exposure, air pollution, and not much sunscreen.
Yeah, true. Grandpa Guinness on the right is just 63 in that picture.
Lets see how we look like in our 60's with all the microplastics inside us ;)
But it shouldn't be worse than smoking, lead, smog and missing sunscreen
Similarly a lot of my 2x and 3x great grandparents looked better in their 60s, 70s, and even 80s than their kids and grandkids. Most of them wouldve been born in rural regions around the late 1800s so I suspect you are correct in what made folks age faster.
Not just the skin! We've known earth sun has immunosuppressive properties since the 1970s, and now it looks like damaged skin is fucking up your bod like a poorly cooled CPU slowly heat-stressing all the other components in your computer to death. The sun is not your friend on Earth, and they have three two on Tatooine.
poorly cooled CPU slowly heat-stressing all the other components in your computer to death
The what now? Are you sure that's even a thing?
The sun is not your friend on Earth
there wouldn't even be life on Earth without the sun
On the other hand, the sun powers up people like Superman.
Imagine him surrounded by 3 suns.
That's one of the things in TPM that makes the least sense to me. They're on Tatooine, Jar-Jar is an aquatic creature. Why go into the desert?? Stay. On. The. Ship.
Talking about laying low and not drawing attention and then bringing a creature like Jar Jar along makes no sense. It always bothered me that they brought him to town.
that's one of the things in TPM that makes the least sense
that's your biggest complaint?
How exactly did you draw that conclusion??
A lot of cocoa farmers have never tasted chocolate, so it tracks that in the terminal capitalism of the Galactic Empire, moisture farmers wouldn't have access to moisture.
I watched that yesterday and I don't have the heart to stop giving chocolate to my daughter, but I don't know that I'll be eating it any longer.
On my life I didn’t click the link but I know it’s that John Oliver episode and I’m scared to watch it because I love chocolate. I know that’s selfish but I don’t have a lot of just for me things I enjoy and I’m loathe to take one away.
That’s almost literally everything we consume in modern society. It all has costs that hurt someone along the way. Exploitation is a part of capitalism. Only you can draw your line in the sand.
It would do the opposite of help unless by “help” you mean “encourage me to make better decisions about my health and wellness”
The latter. I also love chocolate but between op and the heavy metals I am also facing an unhappy choice.
I told my wife and daughter today that I wouldn't be eating chocolate anymore and when I asked why, I said, "I'll tell you, but only if you want me to ruin chocolate for you forever." They opted not to know.
They also have starships, so many droids they are considered junk, and fully working replacement limbs. I have to assume they can fix bad skin. I guess it's like Patrick Stewart/Picard's "in the future nobody cares if you're bald".
star wars isn't a utopian society, though. lukes family can't afford or won't spend the money on a droid that could do all the work for them. or the might be supply issues on tatooine - they buy c3po and r2 off jawas, after all.
In The Phantom Menace they didn't even use Republic standard currency on Tatooine. I don't think it's a stretch to assume that they don't have access to all the most advanced technology in the galaxy.
That had chattel slavery. Which suggests they didn't rely on a mechanised workforce.
Raiders, both Tuscan and your average shitbags thieves. You can't have nice things that are autonomous when people want to take them.
I mean...none of what you said is incorrect, but none of it precludes the premise either.
On Earth here in 2023 we have cars and trucks, yet many people in developing countries still walk or ride animals to get where they need to go.
E-waste is a major issue and smartphones are ubiquitous, yet there are still areas even in the US that have limited or no Internet access, and in developing countries, access to even fresh water, let alone electricity and Internet, can be hard to come by.
We are capable of amazing medical feats like gene therapy and advanced prosthetics, yet millions lack access to basic care, and millions more die from preventable disease every year.
So maybe in Star Wars it's less an issue of "they have bad skin because there's nothing that can be done about it" and more, "They're poor people struggling to get by in an unforgiving, backwater location, so that type of care is inaccessible, prohibitively expensive, or seen as a non-essential luxury."
IDK, maybe not. It's easy to think of space travel and robotics as more complex than medicine, but I don't think that's necessarily true. I wouldn't be at all surprised if we have mass produced droids before we've totally cured skin aging. Maybe not interstellar travel, but you never know
None of those technologies have anything to do with skin. Well, ok, the replacement limbs do, and showed that they can produce artificial skin that even includes the sensation of touch. But what moisture farmers have time to book an appointment on a medical ship when it happens to be in the area (or a quick light jump away)? Oh right, abundance of droids that could be doing whatever labour is involved on a moisture farm (carry the daily bottle of water to the fridge? What is their output even like?).
The next star wars should be about a trade deal between Tatooine and some ocean planet to exchange some water for some sand and moisture farmers hiring some force using mercenaries (let's explore one of the other cults of the force instead of just the Sith and Jedi again). It would be interesting if the whole thing was written to make everyone morally ambiguous, like a lot of chaotic goods, true neutrals, and lawful bads so that at the end of it, there's a debate about whether the outcome was a good one. That's a lot better than debate about what the dumbest parts were.
The next star wars should be about a trade deal between Tatooine and some ocean planet to exchange some water for some sand and moisture farmers hiring some force using mercenaries (let’s explore one of the other cults of the force instead of just the Sith and Jedi again).
I want Nip/Tuck Tatooine.
But what moisture farmers have time to book an appointment on a medical ship when it happens to be in the area (or a quick light jump away)?
Maybe moisture farming is really easy. Maybe Luke spent like three hours a day moisture farming and the rest of the time bullseyeing womp rats in his T16. That's probably why he's such a good pilot.
There's a strong argument that the entire Galactic Empire is Lawful Evil as an entity.
Sure, the individuals within it may vary widely, but overall it's LE.
I guess it's like Patrick Stewart/Picard's "in the future nobody cares if you're bald".
Then why do all the ladies love Riker and his glorious hair?
Patrick Stewart was People Magazine's Sexiest Man Alive despite being bald. Frakes never got that cover. I'm just saying.
Also, Picard was able to string Beverly along for years through his charm alone.
I'm glad they gave Owen and Beru a little time to be brave badasses even though outmatched
Aaaaw, but I wanted to go to Toshi's station to pick up some power converters
You can pay with your friend when your chores are done.
Repeat every day for 20 years.
What if I told you... those actors are more or less all the correct ages, and if anything the younger cast is a bit older than it should be.
Have you never lived in the Midwest? There's not much to do.
By which I mean, this is more meth than weather
The ages of Alec Guinness and Ewan McGregor pretty much track actually. It's just that a 63 year old looked a lot older in the 70s. Tom Cruise is 61 now, Keanu Reeves is 59. Ewan McGregor is 52 now and the events of Obi-Wan are about ten years before EP. 4.
How much better would Rogue One have been if they took a quick 20 minutes to explain how sand effects time dilation? But no, we gotta have some stupid hallway scene and emotional stakes. Unwatchable.
Right?! How many times do we give a shit about Alan Tudyk playing dead? Congratulations, you were likeable and we miss you now!
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These pictures are 18 years apart. Life in an impoverished place can age you quite a bit.
I don't know that life on Empire-era Tatooine was quite as bad as life as a woman in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, but maybe.
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They still had chattel slavery while the Republic was around and it was controlled by a mafia family and they had to constantly be on the lookout for the Native population that did not like them being there.
Or check out pictures of impoverished farmers in the Great Depression. Even the 18 year olds looked old. Here is homesteader Jim Norris at 37 years old:
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jim_Norris,_homesteader_1a34135v.jpg
It's also been pointed out before that they also somehow can't produce good quality textiles either.
No, but if you want to make it rich in the Star Wars galaxy, be a cloak salesman. You will never go out of business selling cloaks in that galaxy.
Star Wars is an abject lesson on why you should not do prequels to long established IPs.
I love that book and the movie is not bad either. I keep trying to get people to read it, but they're never interested.
You realize that 19 is only one year less than 20? How did you look 2 decades ago compared to now?