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bigbadwolf
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I've been re-watching ANH (for the 1000th time) in preparation for my trip to Celebration Europe this weekend, and something's puzzling me.
Just after Uncle Owen buys R2-D2 and C-3PO from the Jawas he tells Luke to take charge of them, but Luke whines that he wanted to got to Tochie Station to pick up power converters and Uncle Owen tells him he can waste time with his friends later.
The thing that confuses me is how picking up power converters = wasting time with your friends?
What are power converters? I've always assumed they're some kind of industrial device that converts power form one format to another, I can imagine that such devices would be useful in an isolated farm where most of the equipment seems to cobbled together or maintained using whatever the Jawas can sell. But how can collecting them be any fun?
Unless 'power converters' is some kind of slang for drugs or something? They'd certainly sound more appealing than Death Sticks!
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I assume you haven't seen the Robot Chicken Star Wars episode. It shows that the power converters are actually strippers.
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timmoishere posted:
I assume you haven't seen the Robot Chicken Star Wars episode. It shows that the power converters are actually strippers.
Yes thats true.
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bigbadwolf
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Suddenly it all makes sense!
Where can I see the Robot Chicken version?
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I'm sure you can find it on Youtube somewhere.
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Saying he was going to pick up power converters was just an excuse to leave the house and hang out with his friends. He was not really going to buy power converters and Owen knows it.
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Nobody complains about going to Tosche Station just to pick up parts. Owen knew full well that Luke simply wanted to go waste time with his friends.
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In the GFFA, "power converters" means crack. Owen was just protecting his nephew.
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It gets back to Lucas's real original vision for the saga. I have posted this elsewhere, but it is worth reproducing in full. Here is Lucas's original intent for the saga:
Following Zombie's idea that Lucas used the PT to flip the way we understand the OT on its head by creating "The Tragedy of Darth Vader", I here have finally discovered George Lucas's secret master plan for a twelve-part Star Wars "dodecaology": his true vision for the Saga was, is, and always will be The Epic of the Power Converters. The existing Saga is merely the middle (and the Live Action TV Series will be take place between the current Episode III and Episode IV and will be revealed below) and is indeed the Tragedy of Darth Vader, but its true importance in the overall saga is only alluded to in the original Star Wars or "A New Hope" as it is called by Lucas and fans. It is the seeminly throw-away line "I wanted to go to Tosche Station to get some power converters". What are these Power Converters, and why are they important you might ask. To answer this, we must go back to Lucas's original outline of February 12, 1961, sometime called the Journal of the Whills.
This outline contains the Tragedy of Darth Vader as the middle sextology in the Twelve Part Star Wars Saga of Ur: The Epic of the Power Converters. It tells the story of how, in the early days of the First Galactic Republic, the Jedi Order was threatened by the growing evil of the Dark Side of the Force as used by the Evil Sith Warlords. The Master Sith Lord, Darth Philip Glass, using the Dark Side of the Force composed torturous minimalist music bringing about Koyaansquatisi--"Life out of balance". The Jedi, desparate to restore peace and order to the galaxy, secretly developed the "Power Converters of Ur", which had the ability of converting Dark Side Force Power to Light Side Force Power and vice-versa. This was controlled by a sort of control on the converters that looked like a kind of graphic equalizer, by sliding levers balance could be restored to the Force. The first movie tells of how the Jedi and Sith struggled, while the second film reveals the building of the Power Converters and their use, bringing balance to the Force. In the third film, we see the defeat of the Sith, now robbed of their Dark Side powers by the Jedi with their Power Converters. All the Sith are destroyed, accept for Darth Plageous the Wise, who goes into hiding, plotting for three hundred years to steal back the power converters, now hidden in the Jedi Temple and largely forgotten. He manages to steel the converters by posing as a tourist on a tour of the temple, and sneaking off the tour and finding them. The Jedi don't even know they are missing. Later Plageous's Sith Apprentice learns of the converters and murders his master. He reverses the polarity of the Converters, converting Light Side Power into Dark Side Power, causing the Dark Side to cloud the light side and shift the Balance of the Force to the left speaker Dark Side.
Following this the PT we know goes on. He and Plageous before him had already planted "the prophecy" within the Jedi archives, so the whole notion of "the chosen one" is merely a smokescreen for the real source of the new found power of the Sith. He uses the Power Converters to manipulate the midichlorians into making Anakin, etc.
What we shall see in the live action TV show that takes place between Episode III and Episode IV is how, before duelling with Palpatine and being killed by him and Anakin, Mace Windu had discovered the Power Converters, and stuck them in his Jedi Robes. After having his hand chopped off and being thrown out the window, Mace is kept alive by the Power Converters, though he loses his mind in the process. He goes around the galaxy performing all sorts of strange and bizarre acts, generally making an ass of himself, until eventually annoying the hell out of Boba Fett who hunts him down and kills him on Tattoine, where he is meeting with his client Jabba the Hutt. All of Mace's possessions are discovered and pillaged by the Jawas who sell all of his electronics and other gadgets to the owners of Tosche Station at Anchorhead for their junkyard. Luke likes to go to the junkyard to find stuff to pimp out his landspeeder and thinks the Power Converters look really cool, so he saves up money to get them; little does he know that it is really the Force guiding him to fulfill his destiny and restore balance to the Force.
This is, of course followed by the OT which we all know by now; but the seen where Uncle Owen tells Luke he can play with his friends when he is done with his chores takes on a whole new meaning now! Think balance could have been restored to the Force and peace restored to the galaxy years sooner if only Owen wasn't such a schmuck!
Following the OT is of course the legendary "Sequel Trilogy" which tells the story of how Luke goes back to Tosche Station in Anchorhead to pick up the Power Converters and how he, now a Jedi Master, understands their true purpose. He goes on to fulfill his destiny by building the Power Converter Temple to protect and forever guard the Power Converters, which he has set back to their original setting, converting Dark Side Power to Light Side Power and making sure that Balance is always restored to the Force. He then founds the Order of the Protectorate of the Power Converters, the Guardians of Peace of the New Republic.
Finally here revealed is the true original vision of George Lucas as revealed to him by the Whills in 1961 and the truth about the 12 part Star Wars saga.
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Obviously Luke was just covering up for the fact that he had plans outside from the farm. Power converters was probably the first thing he thought of just as a last try. But I always saw this aspect very Anakin-like. So involved with technology and repairing that he actually has a good time picking up parts.
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Finally here revealed is the true original vision of George Lucas as revealed to him by the Whills in 1961 and the truth about the 12 part Star Wars saga.
Thats pretty good. 
A power converter is the ignition system for a starship. It converts energy from the ship's primary power source to its propulsion units to achieve thrust.
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Power_converters
Looking at the picture of a power converter, which was taken from the game Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy, Luke would have had a hard time bringing one of those home on his speeder. 
The power converters werent the issue. Uncle Owen knew all of Lukes friends hang out at the Tosche station. (which by the way was the closest strip joint that would serve underage teens )
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Well camie had starred in Emily.
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Thankfully Robot Chicken solved the mystery for me.  (j/k)
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Yeah, Owen realised Luke was just making excuses to get away.
Enjoy CE, bigbadwolf. Might see you there 
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Yes, it's probably just an excuse which Uncle Owen saw through, but I thought of another possibility. It's based on a Marvel Star Wars comic (#17, I think) which takes place the day before Biggs leaves for the Academy. Luke tells Uncle Owen he's just going to a going away party for Biggs, but in reality this "going away party" is a race though Beggars' Canyon (somewhat reminiscent of pod racing, actually). So, maybe this power converter is a part Luke needs for his Sky Hopper, the ship he used to race in Beggars' Canyon.
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I imagine it's a thing for use on one of his speeders.
Similar to goobers spending money and time on rims, spoilers, or power reducing big mufflers.
i.e. not required and there for a waste of time.
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