Star Wars fans divided over Tatooine's greatest secret
Topics: Star Wars, TV And Film
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Topics: Star Wars, TV And Film
There is no denying that the Star Wars fandom is dedicated.
So it is perhaps no wonder that an eagle-eyed fan has spotted a potential mistake in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones.
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In a scene on the planet of Tatooine, we can see Anakin and Padme talking and their shadows are cast onto the wall behind them.
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However, we know that Tatooine has two suns so one fan has questioned why we can only see one set of shadows.
To get to the bottom of this potential plot hole, the fan took to r/StarWars to ask for an explanation.
“Is there a lore reason that a planet with two suns only casts one shadow?” They asked.
As you can probably expect, it wasn’t long before the Star Wars fans descended and offered a variety of different explanations for our shadow problem.
“Only one sun is in a position to cast their shadows on that particular surface at the time,” one user suggested.
More specifically, the sun was setting during this scene so one of Tatooine’s suns could have already set.
Another fan seemingly agreed with this theory and said, “those suns are so close together (and far away from the subject) that they essentially act as 1 light source, so 1 shadow.”
However, one fan went above and beyond by offering a scientific explanation.
“I just checked the EP4 sunset that Luke watches, and the 2 suns are about 4 diameters wide/apart. If they are roughly the same size and distance as our sun, that would make their total width about 2°,” they said.
So there would be at most 4° of penumbra (2° on each side). Realistically only about 1.5° per side would be noticeable, and only if the subjects were close to the wall.
Since they aren't close to the wall, the penumbra would be fuzzy, which is what I see in that image.”
Yeah…
Anyway, we may never find out if this is a plot hole or something with an easy explanation but I’m sure the Star Wars fandom will have an explanation nonetheless.