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Qui-Gon: Credits will do fine. [while attempting a mind trick]
Watto: No, they won’t.
Qui-Gon: Credits WILL do fine.
Watto: No, they won’t.
Qui-Gon: [Walks down street to money exchanger] Trade me these credits for Hutt bucks [Does mind trick]
Money Exchanger: Okay!
[Qui-Gon returns to Watto]
Qui-Gon: Here’s a pile of Hutt bucks. Sell me a functional hyperdrive.
Watto: Okay!
[Roll credits]
The thing with the Jedi mind trick is that only Jedi’s think it works.
Everyone else just see a scary lightsaber guy asking them to repeat a sentence and are more than happy to comply if it means they get left alone.
There’s a limit to how much you can pretend though.
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Letting an old man and a kid drive through a checkpoint? Fine, someone else’s problem.
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Selling an obvious narc deathsticks? Yeah, maybe going home and rethinking your life is the right call here.
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Handing over all your life savings for a bad deal? Uh, no actually.
I could see your perception of it changing based on how you watched the movies. If your first time watching the movies was in numerical order, you might come away thinking the Jedi mind trick doesn’t work very well. It’s not really explained until episode 4. IIRC, it’s shown two times in the prequels, once against Watto (which fails) and once against a rando drug dealer in a bar (which works). It later works against Bib Fortuna but not Jabba.
The explanation of “works against the weak minded” doesn’t come until you’re several hours in. If the movies were produced in that order, it would almost come off like a cop out explanation.
Is it a bad deal though? Are credits worthless to money changers in this context?
I took it more like galactic credits are banned on Tatooine , and no trader who didn’t want any trouble with the Hutts would be dealing with them. Taking them on would be a world of trouble, like fencing stolen goods
Thanks for explaining it. I’m not well versed on Star Wars. Seems like a galatic credit would have huge value compared to a local currency and someone would take that risk. Like trying to use USD in Argentina last year, illegal but worth it.
That’s not a bad explanation.
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Wait why do they need to mind trick a money exchanger? Isn’t it just their job to exchange money? You just need to hand them the credits. OK maybe you’ll get gouged on the exchange rate but it’s not like they were poor. Alternatively I’m sure there’s something of value on a fancy vessel that they could just sell.
Why not just trade the fancy vessel for a less fancy but functional vessel. I’m sure the queen could afford it.
My boss would not appreciate me swapping a company car for a beat up prius. Imagine Mace Windu’s scowl
Isn’t the ship the queen’s? It’s a Naboo diplomatic ship.
Ope yeah. Its been a while🤦♂️
Doesn’t matter. Mace Windu can still scowl.
Fuckers were trying to stop a planet blockade, you guys, someone could have been blockading our planet for billions of years and we’d only have noticed this week.
They didn’t need to mind trick the money exchanger, they just did it cause it’s fun mind trick hand wave
Just for shits and giggles
Child endangerment is the Jedi way.
That’s why they are given laser swords that can cut through anything at age six!
You want those younglings to be defenseless against the Jedi that kill them with their laser sword?
The only thing that can stop a bad Jedi with a laser sword is a good Jedi with a laser sword
What about a medium jedi with a bunch of Jim’s Cole Slaw
Don’t forget blindfolding them while they use their laser swords
Anything aged six too!
Hey oooooooooo
Training swords! They just sting like a bitch. They don’t make their own until well later.
And then he still cheats by force manipulating the dice.
Nono you see… after my plan, we get to keep the boy.
(also he did try to free his mom but then like… gave up after receiving one no, but at least the attempt was made or something?)
“No? Oh well, I didn’t want her anyway, she’ll just cause trouble along the way. But that way I can trick the boy into thinking I did everything I could.”
Could have just traded in the non-working Nubian ship and bought a junker. It’ll get you to Coruscant just fine.
‘What’s a Nubian?’
‘Shut the fuck up!’
Mr Gin just didn’t want to criminally implicate himself. Cheating in a casino creates a lot more opportunities to be noticed and caught. Pod racing has better plausible deniability.
Calvin’s dad says it builds character.
Yes, because the Hutts would be totally cool with a couple of Jedi rolling up to their gambling dens and blatantly cheating for several hours. Screwing over one random used car salesman on a single bet is much easier to get away with.
Not to mention the whole “he could be the chosen one” angle, at which point freeing Anakin was just as important to Qui-Gon as getting off-planet.
…Me? Overthinking a silly meme? Noooo…
The hell is a Palawan
It’s a humorous way of saying he’s his apprentice AND his friend!
This is canon now, great answer 😄
It’s a beautiful island! - me, someone in Palawan right now :-)
I now know more about the Philippines
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Crap fanfiction!
The Prequels, I mean.
Makes me so angry. Imagine the plot of the prequels but written and produced like Andor.
And don’t imagine the sequels at all.
That’s fair. But alas.
Better than 7-9.
Ok grandma let’s get you to bed
Take your blasted midichlorians and your ridiculous child actor and get off my greatest film of human history!
*grumble* *fuss*
Hey! It wasn’t the child’s fault! It was all the yes-men that surrounded George by then. They could’ve told George his writing was one-note undercooked shit. They failed.
Even the people who don’t kidnap children to survive aren’t exactly concerned with safety in this galaxy.
We have half a movie to fill with padding, Padawan
Honestly the original scene was real shit. Obi-Wan is Qui-Gon’s apprentice, he’s not about to point out how Qui-Gon’s plan is just bad.
Would then being Jedi mean they could sense when the cards are about to change values?
