Originally posted by: Tiptup
We wouldn't need to rationalize anything if Lucas had even the semblance of a logically coherent mind.
On a related note, for fans of Middle Earth and The-Hobbit/Lord-of-the-Rings, Tolkien had one incredibly consistent, but amazingly complex universe to his credit. Too bad Jackson's movies didn't do Tolkien's mythology justice. Though, then again, Tolkien's writing in the LotR was very dry and so I can overlook Jackson's alterations somewhat.
We wouldn't need to rationalize anything if Lucas had even the semblance of a logically coherent mind.
On a related note, for fans of Middle Earth and The-Hobbit/Lord-of-the-Rings, Tolkien had one incredibly consistent, but amazingly complex universe to his credit. Too bad Jackson's movies didn't do Tolkien's mythology justice. Though, then again, Tolkien's writing in the LotR was very dry and so I can overlook Jackson's alterations somewhat.
although it is true that Tolkien's books were consistent he did edit the Hobbit in later editions to fit in with Lord of the Rings, he only edited the chapter where Bilbo meets Gollum but all the versions in print today are the edited version, although you can find the revisions in Appendix A of ' The Annotated Hobbit'(1988), in it's edited form "It represents as closely as is possible Tolkien's final intended form"
So this isn't that different to what Lucas has done with Star Wars.