I guess they don't have moisturizers on a moisture farm.

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.
- Age weirdness aside, I never realized how much young Beru looked like older Beru.
You think that aunt Beru transformation is normal? Yes I am surprised lol

Jar-Jar warned us. "The suns doin' murder to meesa skin"

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.
- Not just the skin, but the immune system and the DNA, too.
- But vitamin D
- 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?
- Two suns. The famous John Williams song is called Binary Sunset.
- 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.
- Of all the things, that's your biggest complaint?
- But he needed to step in the poop on Tatooine, that was his whole purpose there.
- The Darth Jar Jar theory makes everything clear.

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.

https://youtu.be/FwHMDjc7qJ8?si=HKzSDbIVKrI9BzFo

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.

doesn't tatooine have two suns? solar radiation wrecks skin.

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.
- 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
- High tech, low life. Star wars is dystopian
- 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.
- 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?

You should see some of the folks over there in Arizona

Can we take a moment to appreciate how spot-on that casting is, though?
- I'm glad they gave Owen and Beru a little time to be brave badasses even though outmatched
- Right? Owen and Beru's noses look perfect.
They got nothing on folks from Key West, FL.

19 years of Luke whining will do that to anybody.

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.
- He got it eventually.

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.

What if you told us that.... Would that be in any way correct?

Have you never lived in the Midwest? There's not much to do.

By which I mean, this is more meth than weather

And there is a lot of weather!
Can confirm, from Midwest, lots of meth
Meth or alcohol. Cigarettes don't help either.
- Death sticks*

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.

Dont forget sunscreen kids, shit is crucial.

That's why nobody is using it, they don't want to wear sunscreen that's made of shit.

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.

I was hoping for more about trade negotiations.
- Right?! How many times do we give a shit about Alan Tudyk playing dead? Congratulations, you were likeable and we miss you now!

Spend 20 years in the desert and you'll see it will have done a number on your skin!

https://images.thequint.com/thequint/2016-10/adb41049-d6d3-4a81-ab2b-b399680af68c/Untitled%20design.jpg?rect=0%2C0%2C1920%2C1080&auto=format%2Ccompress&fmt=webp

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.
- 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.
- If you impress Lando, you're doubly set. Man never met a cloak he didn't like.

Star Wars is an abject lesson on why you should not do prequels to long established IPs.

There has always been Starkadders on Cold Comfort Farm.

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.
- There's a book? :0
What's that?

You realize that 19 is only one year less than 20? How did you look 2 decades ago compared to now?

I didn't go from looking like I'm 25 to looking like I'm 65 in 20 years. Maybe you did.
- do you live in the desert though?
- In that picture Ewan McGregor was 50 years old and Alec Guinness was 63 years old.
You realize that 19 is only one year less than 20?
Big if true

...so does my mother look young for her age or the one top old?

Don't get high off your own supplies, duh.

Fuck off