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km_515

A New Sith, or Revenge of the Hope

Jan 03, 2011 10:59

Reconsidering Star Wars IV in the light of I-III

[I originally wrote this piece in 2005 and a friend posted it on his website. That site has recently gone down, so I'm reposting it here, as it still gets a lot of interest.]

If we accept all the Star Wars films as the same canon (as it seems we must) then a lot that happens in the original films has ( Read more... )

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organa anonymous February 17 2011, 14:37:54 UTC

organa isnt dead, he is at Yavin...and has become white. He and leah embrace. And what about that women that is always appearing?

Re: organa anonymous February 17 2011, 16:18:50 UTC

That wasn't her father, that was General Jan Dodonna. The woman who keeps appearing is Mon Mothma, Chief of State of the Alliance.

You almost had me anonymous February 19 2011, 02:17:43 UTC

I could have believed it till u said chewbacca was a rebel. The wookies were enslaved. Chewbacca was left on kasheek when yoda left. he would have no way of contacting yoda.

Re: You almost had me ext_2357153 January 3 2014, 17:32:56 UTC

I know this comment was left nearly three years ago, but I would like to reply...

The author clearly states at the beginning (and even in this comment section) that he is using film canon and the expanded universe is just another form of speculation.

R2 anonymous February 19 2011, 21:54:13 UTC

I feel like the only other major flaw here, besides anything chewie or falcon related (and those can be ignored is you only go with film canon) is that R2 resisted the jawas in the canyon when he gets captured ( ... )

Re: R2 anonymous February 26 2011, 05:58:16 UTC

haha, this can be fixed by removing "arranged to be" with "is"
:)

This is rubbish anonymous February 25 2011, 15:15:10 UTC

You need to read a lot of books before you go speculating what happened. First off Chewie swore a life debt to Han for saving him from Han's former captain in the Imperial Navy and slavery. Second Lando originally won the Falcon gambling which Han later won. Third the Millennium Falcon is a a Correllian YT-1300 light freighter, it was not exactly rare but the Falcon was modified heavily. All that can be found in the Han Solo Trilogy. Yoda and Obi-Wan did not go into hiding for 20 years they did quite a bit and there are 11 books so far in a series called "Last of the Jedi." Tells the story of what happened after the most of the Jedi were killed. I have not read them yet but will be starting them soon. So you may want to consider reading some books if you want to know what happened between "Revenge of the Sith" and "A New Hope."

Re: This is rubbish anonymous February 26 2011, 05:55:39 UTC

Can't put a lot of weight on a book series written by someone other than the writers of the two trilogies.
This is a great exercise in critical thought using a specific sample. This is just wonderful. The only problems I had was Chewie, but mostly because, as previously stated in the comments, his appearance in the Revenge did seem a bit more like marketing than film making. But hey, you can only use what you got to work with, and this guy made something very nice.

Re: This is rubbish anonymous March 22 2011, 15:03:59 UTC

To use your own logic, you can't much much weight on something crafted by someone other than the writers of the films... (I.e. The guy who wrote this)

Re: This is rubbish anonymous June 27 2011, 21:21:55 UTC

Using the logic you borrowed, this explanation is just as plausible as the Han Solo Trilogy. :)

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anonymous March 3 2011, 05:00:42 UTC

Some of this sounds reasonable, but most of it is patently false ( ... )

The official word is... ext_540991 May 5 2011, 00:57:23 UTC

Officially speaking, only the movies are canon. The whole life debt between Han and Chewie is never spoken of during the 6 movies. The "Expanded Universe" does make mention of this, but as much as I love the extra stuff, not one single sentence of it is official in any way, shape or form. I loved the Timothy Zahn novels, really, but the instant that George Lucas decides to contradict anything in them, it has to be ignored ( ... )

Re: The official word is... anonymous August 1 2011, 18:21:00 UTC

I know it's not your main point, but the reason Star Wars ran for an entire year in theaters is that there was no home video market. If it were released today, under the same circumstances, entertainment-wise, as 1977, with the only difference being that VHS or DVD exists as it does today, then there's no way it would run for an entire year.

Re: The official word is... anonymous April 10 2013, 04:32:27 UTC

A lot of it has to be run through Lucas (or at least his office) to be published officially, so it's got a bit of credibility. You can bet Lucas would've okay'd the story of Han saving Chewie and Han being in the imperial army, those are kind of big.