xhonzi said:
Hey, what happened to kittu's post? I haven't seen them just go *poof* like that before.
Have you sketched anything out or thought about how you would do the first film?
Yeah, I have some stuff. I was going to post a few more pages on "setting" and "characters" before getting on with the story... but I sort of got off track.
Do you see the Republic as corrupt in the traditional sense? I see it more as "hamstrung" in the sense that it's so weighed down by bureaucracy that they can't really make a lot of good decisions. Sure, some very corrupt individuals in there, but it's not like the whole republic is entirely crap. It might be a bad government, but it's not as bad as The Empire. It something you wish you could go back to when The Empire takes over.
Can't wait to see it.
No, it's corrupt. A few American administrations are my inspiration for the Republic. Yeah, it's not Nazi Germany (The Empire), but at the top level it is corrupt nonetheless.
I think we also agree that the story should begin in medias res. I think the story should open a Clone War or two after the first one. Basically with the Mandalorians attacking from the opening scenes. I would however try not to present the Mandalorians in a totally black-and-white evil sense. I think a lot of "normal" people would do whatever they could to keep their race alive.
The Sith would be evil, yeah, but even they would be somewhat misguided or maybe just their philosophy would be "different". I'd really like to go back to the religion of the Force. The Sith are just the other side of the coin. For example, Suffering. Suffering can be seen as beneficial and the Taoism Way of Suffering and the Four Noble Truths is an example of how I'd like to present the Dark-Side. They believe in using things like suffering and see them as necessary and beneficial. The Sith would believe in things like "survival of the fittest", compassion being weakness, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger, etc.
1. The Nature of Suffering (Dukkha):
"This is the noble truth of suffering: birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering; sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering; union with what is displeasing is suffering; separation from what is pleasing is suffering; not to get what one wants is suffering; in brief, the five aggregates subject to clinging are suffering."[8][9]
Really only Palpatine would probably be absolutely evil with no shades of gray or reason for being so.
I kind of have an inspiration for most of the characters, relationships, or things happening in the galaxy. Just have to work things out. Finding the time and someone to bounce ideas off who is interested and has the same kind of vision is the hard part though.