shimy said:
see thats something that bothers me, if you were going for realism then some of the older characters would go. so far the big three haven't even been touched, instead they develop characters in the books then kill them off like 5 books later.
I donno if ill ever forgive denning for killing anakin in star by star, when the previous 5 books had highlight him as the major character of the series. FFS the 2 books before that had 3 characters anakin tahari, and vong. they fleshed out this huge story about him and tahari then boom.
the only major movie character to be killed so far is chewie.
lordjedi said:
It's all in an effort to keep Star Wars feeling "real" and not making it escapism. Every single one of those deaths (well, actually, the more recent ones starting in Vector Prime) was a way to take the "These characters are safe" aspect away. It is one of the only reasons why I set the EU as an extremely low priority on my reading list. If I want realism, I'll watch the evening news. When I read Star Wars (or any other Sci-Fi for that matter) I want to escape. I want to go to a fantastical world where the characters I love win in the end and survive. I don't want to worry whether or not a character I've loved for years is going to suddenly bite it when I turn the page.
"Who's going to die next?" is what the EU has become. For that, I shun it.
It's all in an effort to keep Star Wars feeling "real" and not making it escapism. Every single one of those deaths (well, actually, the more recent ones starting in Vector Prime) was a way to take the "These characters are safe" aspect away. It is one of the only reasons why I set the EU as an extremely low priority on my reading list. If I want realism, I'll watch the evening news. When I read Star Wars (or any other Sci-Fi for that matter) I want to escape. I want to go to a fantastical world where the characters I love win in the end and survive. I don't want to worry whether or not a character I've loved for years is going to suddenly bite it when I turn the page.
"Who's going to die next?" is what the EU has become. For that, I shun it.
see thats something that bothers me, if you were going for realism then some of the older characters would go. so far the big three haven't even been touched, instead they develop characters in the books then kill them off like 5 books later.
I donno if ill ever forgive denning for killing anakin in star by star, when the previous 5 books had highlight him as the major character of the series. FFS the 2 books before that had 3 characters anakin tahari, and vong. they fleshed out this huge story about him and tahari then boom.
the only major movie character to be killed so far is chewie.
They can't kill Luke (at least not directly). He can die of old age (witness Legacy), but I think that's about it. Lucas simply won't allow it. When Luke was mentioned as a possible target in Vector Prime, Lucas immediately shot it down.
Han and Leia are the next big two, but even their deaths would have an even bigger impact. Leia is pretty much a politician/diplomat even with the Jedi training. Killing her would be a huge blow to the Republic. Han's a father and courier for the Republic, but I can't remember if there was any other reasoning behind letting him live (I think they figured that since Chewie had the life debt and that he's always at Han's side, he'd never let Han be killed).
They basically picked a character that would have a big impact on the other characters, but that the galaxy could live without. The only good thing about his death is the way he died.
I get the feeling that they'll never kill Luke, Han, or Leia. They might die of natural causes/old age, but that's as far as it'll go. Either way, yeah, it's pretty lame that they build up a character and then kill them off in order to "keep things real and dramatic". Funny how Zahn never had to do that to write good stories. He's still hailed as the king of Star Wars EU.