Greetings from a Galaxy Far Far Away!

If you checked the time this was posted, you're probably wondering why I'm here this early (I'm in PST). I can't really explain that. I had a pretty long day today, with homework and other stuff. But even though I was getting to bed after midnight, I felt compelled to write this entry. I've had this idea bouncing around in my head for the past few days and I had to get it down. So I hope you enjoy my midnight ramblings more than I'll enjoy my few hours sleep.

Now on to the main part of the entry. I recently watched the movie Primer, and it's pretty much my favorite movie now after Star Wars. If you haven't seen it yet, log off your computer, get in your car, drive to the video store and pick up this movie. Now.

If you're still reading this, then you've already seen Primer or you don't really care. Either way, my next comment probably doesn't apply to you, but I'll say it anyway. MILD SPOILER ALERT. If you ever plan to see Primer, then you should probably stop reading this blog entry now.

If you're still here, then you've seen it already or you really don't care, in which case you probably want me to shut up about it by now. So I'll continue. Primer is about time travel. Which is the topic of this blog entry. (Sorry for the long intro )

So I was watching this movie, and it got me thinking. Everyone has done stuff they wish that they could go back and fix. Essentially, everyone has thought about time travel. So why, in the thousands of years of history covered in the Star Wars universe, has no one even mentioned time travel? (As far as I know, please correct me if I'm wrong) Has no one in the GFFA ever seriously tried to build a time machine?

If not, then we have to wonder why. How are the characters in Star Wars so different from us that time travel has never crossed their minds? We see time travel so often in our entertainment, in sci-fi, that it's ingrained in us. If you start talking about time travel, people might think you're crazy, but they will know what you're talking about. It appears that this is not so in the galaxy our favorite characters inhabit.

If someone has/will think about time travel in the Star Wars universe, then it makes you wonder why we've never heard about it. But with at least thousands of planets, millions of years, and incalculable sentient beings, it makes you want to think that somewhere, sometime, someone will/has come up with this idea. Will we ever find out about it? Who knows.

The Star Wars Holocron has information about the GFFA that the public doesn't know, and it will continue to grow as the years go on. Could it already have an entry about time travel? Will it ever?

Perhaps time travel hasn't been introduced into the Star Wars universe because of the implications it might have. What would happen to continuity in a universe where you could change the timeline? Maybe Obi-Wan aged so quickly in those 20 years before Ep IV because he was trying to change Anakin's fate before it happened. Maybe Palpatine had to replay time over thousands of times before he was finally able to turn Anakin to the Dark Side. However unlikely these examples and others might be, time travel would make them possible.

Time travel in the Star Wars universe would make playing with the toys easier though. No longer will you have to separate your PT toys from your OT toys. Anakin can battle Vader and Battle Droids can take over the Death Star. Anything is possible. Maybe Boba and Grievous can have a jam session.

So will time travel ever become part of the GFFA? Only *time* will tell.

Hope that I sufficiently blew your mind or at least gave you something interesting to read. Enjoy the rest of your day/morning/evening/whatever it is you might be doing right now, and may the Force be with you all.

Padaweirdo signing off.

EDIT: After publishing this blog entry I did some research online and discovered that time travel is used several times in the EU. However, most of it in non-canonical. Most of what is canon is simple time travel to the future by hyperdrive malfunction. The only intentional time travel that has been used in Star Wars is flow-walking, which was used by Jacen. However, it's unclear whether flow-walking can have an actual effect on the timeline or if it's just a way to view the past.