Not to nit pick, but Luke isn't 60-70 in this series. I'm pretty sure Luke's son Ben is only 13. The mandalorian stuff can't be thrown out with any finesse either, the hole would be too big. This series would get a lot of flak from popular media, but the story itself is much better than episode 1-3. Some of the force techniques that are used would be talked about for decades.
He's likely 55+...Legacy of the Force was 40 years after Episode 4. Don't remember if he was in the 15-18 year old range for Episode 4 but it's likely I would assume. 70 is pretty far off but 60 isn't.
Yea, I guess 55 would be the minimum. Luke doesn't do anything too impressive compared to what you would expect from the Master of the Jedi Order in this series, the series after this one though there were a lot of cool moments. (Another 3 years or so into the future) It also makes him seem younger than pushing 60 with the badassery.
Yeah, totally. Which is why I find the idea of a plot point involving tech funny. You guys have some good points though, about star destoyers getting bigger and X and Y wings becoming A and B wings. (wtf?)
Uh, what? Maybe there haven't been any super-stations in living memory by the time of the star wars movies, but they aren't exactly a brand new innovation to the galaxy at that point. And what does the unchanging tech level of Star Wars have to do with Luke criticizing the Falcon? It looks like a poorly maintained hunk of shit, which is what he was complaining about.
A and B wings don't represent new levels of technology, they represent the resources of the Mon Calamari joining the Rebel Alliance. How about the fact that hyperdrives haven't gotten any faster in thousands of years?
Jedi Grand Master...future medicine...I feel like 60 would be no obstacle for Luke being a badass still. Not to mention just his general power in the Force. While I found it strange he didn't really do a whole lot on his own in Legacy versus Fate of the Jedi series that came after it, they drop enough hints with the knowledge he shows at certain points that his level of mastery/power rivals some of the more powerful Jedi from the past.
I'm not claiming the Star Wars universe is like 40K, where everything is stagnant or backsliding because they lack an understanding of the technology, but what people are describing here is advances in engineering expertise more than actual technological innovations. If you go back 4000 years to the Old Republic setting, blasters, lightsabers, capital ships, interceptors, they're all basically the same. The Republic was over 25000 years old when Palpatine took over, and for almost all of that time beyond the initial formation of the Republic, the tech level stayed about the same.