A common trend in YouTube videos about Star Wars during the past Decade or so has been to cheekily dismiss the idea that the original Star Wars was “for kids” by showing Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru’s burned corpses.
Funny thing about this is as someone who’d been a watcher of these movies since sometime before 1997, I didn’t notice that their bodies were actually visible onscreen in that scene till these very modern video essays. I thought we were just being shown that the farm was burned down and the actual bodies were offscreen or maybe completely disintegrated.
And that shouldn’t be surprising, they were not zoomed in on, there was smoke everywhere, and I was originally watching these on VHS on CRT TVs sitting on the other side of a living room. These modern BluRay rips the YouTubers are using are not what the experiences of this scene was like for most of its existence.
I’m not saying they were impossible to see before if you were looking for them, but the kids these people keep trying to prove Star Wars was never for would not have been looking for them. Heck at first I didn’t really notice them in these modern YouTube videos trying to draw my attention to it.
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