Re: Commentary on the current state of Star Wars continuity(some spoil
I thought Quinlan Vos was a rastafarian. Or am I getting my Jedi mixed up?
Yknow this is why I don't really want to read any Star Wars novels. I am blithely oblivious that Mandalore was ever anything but pacifist, having learned of its existence only lately, and if Anakin had an apprentice during the non-sucky part of the PT story (aka, TCW), then I see no reason to dispute it. Kiffar and Dathomir can be separate planets, the same planet, or flavors of gelato, all I know of it is what TCW tells me.
I ask only one thing of Star Wars continuity: DON'T SUCK AGAIN!
Why does Lucas seem to think the Star Wars story is a work in progress, and he can just rewrite things as he goes along.
If he writes something and it's nonsense, not only does he have the right to re-write it, he has the obligation to do so, and do it right this time (although I don't recall any of your complaints from the PT - maybe they were mentioned in passing while I was too busy throwing my popcorn at the screen to pay attention to what was going on.)
If they were in the novels, and whoever wrote those novels did a good job, then I suppose it's not nice that their good work is being rewritten, but as long as the results are entertaining and make sense, I'll just avoid reading those novels and be perfectly content with the one and only continuity I am familiar with.
They weren't the first draft that can now be thrown out.
No, the PT movies were the first draft, and they should have been thrown out.
Okay here's an idea. Explain to us how the various things you're complaining about could improve TCW. For instance, how would Mandalore not being pacifist improve the story? For them to be pacifist gives them a sense of apartness and unique identity separate from the Republic worlds involved in the fighting, and provides dramatic tension between Obi-Wan and Satine. So for Mandalore to be pacifist serves a purpose in the story. How would changing that improve the story?
A big deal has recently been made on these forums about how the Clone Wars was implied to have evil clones, but Lucas turned it into proto-Stormtrooper clones vs. Battle droids.
Did anyone ever "promise" that the Clone Wars would be about "evil" clones or was that a fan wish? In any case, the problem with the way the Clone Wars is being written isn't broken promises or screwed up continuity, it's that it's just bad writing - it makes the good guys look bad for manufacturing sentient beings as cannon fodder.
Yet Lucas turns around and attempts to use the Republic as a metaphor for current-events politics, which he can't do because he's made the Republic too evil and non-parallel to our own values to begin with. He seems utterly oblivious to how he's screwed up what he apparently is attempting to do, when there were many options for rationalizing why this war is called "the Clone War" that would work better. Sloppy.
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