The Continuity Error That Grew and Grew

Ponda Baba's eyes in ANH didn't even look like the eyes in the prequels... Nor did his flesh, or his tusks...

 

Well, there are different flesh tones in humans too.

 

There is a difference with flesh tones, and "types of flesh"(what I meant)...

The prequel aqualish actually look to have exoskeletons more than flesh...

Still this is a pointless discussion since there is already several stories for them being different species, ...

 

As I think on it, wasn't the arm that was cut off from that other dude, like the wolf man or something. It's late at night here and I might be thinking of something else, but I do remember in ANH the arm had a orange sleeve to it. Did that one aline have a orange sleeve on his arm? In ANH, the arm just looked harry, kind of like a wolf arm, so maybe that's where I'm coming from on that point.

 

Its stated to be Ponda Baba in many sources however, even starwars.com. Ponda Baba was wearing an orange jacket.


"A continuity error involving Ponda Baba is readily apparent in careful viewing of the film. In the cantina sequences filmed in England, Baba has large fin-like hands. In the insert shot of Baba's severed hand, those fins were not available so a hairy clawed hand was used instead."-starwars.com

[image=http://www.starwars.com/databank/character/pondababa/img/eu_bg.jpg]

 

They slice up nicely in KOTOR too, I have to admit.

 

That's odd, I've never been able to lob off one of their arms in KotOR (nor any other body part, for that matter)

 

Um... I think that the Visual Dictionary said that the four eyed one was a mutation.

 

"Still this is a pointless discussion since there is already several stories for them being different species"

Not true, b/c those "several stores" don't accomplish what they set out too

 

"btw, i found a pic online of the aqualish senators"

Good post!

That pic clearly shows the "alien hands"of the Ualaq Senator Po Nudo and his aides, which directly CONTRADICTS the UAA's claim about their hands being like Quara hands (ie, Ponda Baba's hairy humanoid hands).

 

I warn you: you are messing with forces you cannot possibly comprehend...

 

"Still this is a pointless discussion since there is already several stories for them being different species"

Not true, b/c those "several stores" don't accomplish what they set out too"

I was talking to Darth Kevin's idea, not to you. In no way was that sentence directed at you, or your topic.

His idea ignores the stories of multiple species, if his idea that there is only one species is true.

The stories that have multiple species of Aqualish came after the RPG came up with the idea to create 2 species of aqualish. The stories were not set out to fix the filmic error, but rather just refrence something that was created as part of the continuity.

LFL never states that EU's idea to create 2 species out of the problem is not a fix to the error, they always admit that the film contains a continuity error(which isn't easily fixed).

 

For the sake of completeness('oi, that's the second time today I use that in a post), here is a screenshot of what the Aqualish were like 4000 years ago during Knights of the Old Republic...

[image=http://vdl.xs4all.nl/~ruben/KOTOR/Aqualish.jpg]

 

Sorry I took that wrong Val! Guess my pride got ruffled. No prob. Sorry I kinda lashed out at you, hope you aren't offended.

If you are, feel free to lop off my arm. I am curiouds--if you chop off my arm, will my hand turn into a fin?

I understand your pint about WEG. So it seems they were having a little joke ath the movie's continuity's expense, eh? Well, that reminds me of HoloNet News, they love to make fun of the movies and the franchise.

My favorite is the Jedi Trading Cards article, in which the Jedi proclaimed using the face of Jedi for a franchise as unethical and disgusting. LOL! And the corporate dude said that, frankly, his company didn't understand the whole concept of midichlorians. They got Yoda's midichlorian count and species wrong on his card, calling him a Lannik (as many fans mistakenly assumed he was around TPM-time).

 

I won't be surpised, if this topic creates enough of a disruption to reach GL's ears, that the issue is explained on the DVD release of the SWT.

more continuity errors

 

I think the special flipper covered hand idea at least would solve part of the problem of there being such major differences between aquilish.

 

Well, it sounds like something WOTC would do!

Besides, the flipper hands in REAL life WERE JUST GLOVES the actor wore, so why not gloves Ponda wore

Also, Ponda WAS a wanted criminal, at Mos Eisley going by the alias of Sawkee (Radio program).

Maybe his alias, Sawkee, was supposed to be an Aquala? Maybe the gloves were a disguise to throw off bounty hunters? Just slip on some gloves, and, voila!, he's a ew man and a different species, that will throw off those bounty hunters!

Hehe.

I can just see WOTC stats for NEW SPECIES EQUIPMENT: Aqualish Species-Switch Kit!

 

I'm not sure it works with the story in Tales from Mos Eisely? Ponda Baba was trying to get out of his lower class body into the body of an upper class species of aqualish.

 

Well, certainly, his gloves had been ruined by Kenobi, and they were much more expensive toe rplace than full-out body swapping

 

Uh huh...