Originally posted by: Go-Mer-Tonic
But to call any part of an entirely fictional story the "truth"? Are you kidding me?

Nope, not kidding, Go-Mer. Don't get hung up on the word truth, because if you take it too literally ... nothing will end up being true.

You know very well that I'm writing about truths as expressed quite clearly in Star Wars, the film never to have worked on the level it did if those things had been exposed as untrue in the movie. Leia was a love-interest in the classic mold. Luke's motivation was, in part, classicly based on the betrayal and murder of his father. Make Obi-wan Kenobi a LIAR in Star Wars, and the movie loses a ton of appeal. Make Leia NOT the hero's love interest, and the movie loses ton of appeal.

What Lucas did years after Star Wars to those characters would not have been done in the original if it was to be the mega-hit it became. Cowardly is what I would call that, if he were not simply making the story up as he went along. Since he has consistently demonstated he can't keep a story straight that he makes up as he goes along, I choose to recognize only the original story ... and all of the stuff that directly conflicts with it, whether done by Lucas at LFL or some homoerotic fan fiction writer in his mom's garage, is all EU to me.

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