Originally posted by: auraloffalwaffle

JamesEightBitStar, would you prefer to have all SW characters named with familiar western names, rather than made-up stuff like 'Obi-Wan' and 'Han' and so on?

What I mean is, in the OT you had characters with weird, but more natural, fantasy-evoking names like "Luke Skywalker" and "Han Solo" and "Leia Organa." Even "Obi-Wan Kenobi" is a bit more traditional. Then we have the Expanded Universe, where suddenly we have characters whose names don't sound natural at all and sound like they're just trying to be as unusual as possible, such as Quigon Jinn, Jar Jar Binks... and I'm sure I could come up with hundreds more if I looked through Wikipedia. I've never really liked this trend towards "nonsense" names that the EU showed.