Current Events > Why the fuck was there a monster in that trash compactor?

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How'd it get there? Was it trash? Did it get squashed when the trash got compacted? Why was there seemingly an underwater channel that the monster could swim in, but that never got plugged up by all the trash? Why was there even a trash chute behind that panel Leia blasted? Do you have to blast it every time you want to throw something away? Is any of this answered in the novelization?
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Also Obi-Wan literally does a 360 spin for no fucking reason in a duel, so I never wanna hear shit about the prequels having too many flips or whatever.
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It either took care of the biological waste or it was a flushed down alligator.
Leia had been aboard enough ships to see the difference between a normal panel and a panel with a warning about how there is a trash chute behind the panel. It was a pipe to a garbage hole on a higher level.

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The monster was the trash compactor

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Lucas was a goddamn hack who stole his best ideas from Kurosawa, then somehow salvaged Kurosawa.

obeseexplosive posted...

The monster was the trash compactor

We are the walking dead

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lilORANG posted...

Also Obi-Wan literally does a 360 spin for no fucking reason in a duel, so I never wanna hear shit about the prequels having too many flips or whatever.

He's trying to get invincibility frames you asshole.

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AzurexNightmare posted...

He's trying to get invincibility frames you asshole.

this seems reasonable to me, yeah

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i always assumed evil people just keep monsters in their trash compactors
makes sense to me

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...there is no monster in the trash compactor. The trash compactor is the threat in New Hope, the droids deactivate it and they escape. The monster is from Return of the Jedi, in Jabba's palace.

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https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Dianoga

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MrMallard posted...

...there is no monster in the trash compactor. The trash compactor is the threat in New Hope, the droids deactivate it and they escape. The monster is from Return of the Jedi, in Jabba's palace.

You're wrong btw
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Dianoga

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pegusus123456 posted...

You're wrong btw
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Dianoga

This.

It's not outrageous to believe that space ships and stations become infested with creatures over time. Probably started out small then grew over time.


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butthole666 posted...

We are the walking dead

Dont dead open inside

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Also, why does Obi Wan pronounce his own name as Obi Wan with a long A sound? Alec Guinness truly didn't give af right lol.
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lilORANG posted...

How'd it get there? Was it trash? Did it get squashed when the trash got compacted? Why was there seemingly an underwater channel that the monster could swim in, but that never got plugged up by all the trash? Why was there even a trash chute behind that panel Leia blasted? Do you have to blast it every time you want to throw something away? Is any of this answered in the novelization?r point

It was probably someones pet that got flushed. Now its a trash compactor monster feeding off of garbage.

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Ah we're talking about Omi.
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Omi

Usually those things freak me out because of the sewer level, but honestly like Omi.

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divot1338 posted...

It was probably someone?s pet that got flushed. Now it?s a trash compactor monster feeding off of garbage.

Why didn't it get squished tho when the trash compactor turned on? And if your answer is "it swam into that underwater channel also mentioned in the OP" then why the fuck is there an underwater channel?
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thinking way too hard about a literal throwaway miniboss

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Tsuyoi3 posted...

Ah we're talking about Omi.
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Omi

Usually those things freak me out because of the sewer level, but honestly like Omi.

Okay.

I still have a tough time wrapping my head around "From a Certain Point of View".

Is it canon? Is it just a bunch of fun what ifs?

Or is it a social experiment into the lengths the Star Wars fanbase can go? One of the greatest things about Star Wars is that, for all the myriad of things across the franchise that don't make sense or boggle the mind, you can either come up with a technobabble way of explaining it or attribute it to the mysterious workings of the Force.

Is FaCPoV just trying to push those boundaries as far as they'll go?

You've got the Whills in that book. You've got a pair of very different Tusken Raiders in two separate stories. You've got Omi the Dianoga. You've got literal "Fake Wedge" actually being a character.

I feel I need to go through that again because as much as it kinda turned me off as I was going through it, there's a remarkable self-awareness to the collection.

And all the contradictions are officially "intentional, and part of the project's nature" according Matt Martin of Lucasfilm Story Group.

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Wait, so that thing that dragged Luke underwater in the trash compactor wasn't actually hostile? She was just baptizing him? lol

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Because she wanted some fuckin' eggs and the force was being fucking weird and and some fucking shit happened. Boom trash monster

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The23rdMagus posted...

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Dianoga

While physically hermaphroditic, dianoga could choose to identify as female, diangous (the most common gender), or male. The matingprocess involved partners exchanging eggs with one another.[1]

It warms the cockles of my heart that somewhere, sometime, someone decided they would make identity politics for tentacled horrors that live in refuse and sewage canon.

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Fyi that movie actually holds up pretty well, other than the legendarily lame light saber duel and Lucas' weird cgi additions.
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I always assumed it was a creature the Empire used to monitor the contents of the compactor. You're supposed to double-check a trash compactor before you turn it on in case someone is inside. And evidently, trash could be packed way higher than the door in that one.

Not to mention, they turn the compactor on immediately after it discovers them. Maybe since the Death Star crew realized these were the trespassers, they figured it was an easy way to get rid of them.

Maybe it has a hatch that opens that it swims through that closes after it.

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It's a commonly held misconception that the Death Star was a weapon of mass destruction, intent on cementing the Emperor's hold on the galaxy through a doctrine of fear. This is untrue. The Death Star was in fact the galaxy's most secure prison, built for it's single inhabitant; The Trash Compactor Monster. The station carried a planet destroying laser as a means of stopping the creature, should it escape and hide on nearby worlds.

The laser would of course not harm the creature, but leave it floating through space, and easy to recapture, should it ever escape. Alderaan was a false flag operation in this regard. It was never the hub of the Rebellion's efforts, but some random planet the creature escaped to briefly before it was recaptured. "Princess Leia" was a paid actress participating in the cover-up.

After the destruction of the Death Star, The Trash Compactor Monster was caught in Yavin's gravitational pull, and is now trapped within the gas giant.

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