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Post #569793

Author
Mrebo
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In the Age of the Jedi
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Date created
13-Mar-2012, 1:23 AM

I'm waiting for the pieces to all come together for me. I feel that lots of this would work well for a novelization. A Star Wars film is thematically simple and what some call "campy." Your writing does provide lots of great background that could be adapted into the action-oriented and sometimes silly Star Wars feel. To that end, I wonder how to present the complex story of xenophobia and humanocentrism in the most basic and understandable terms without getting into the weeds and making things overly political.

I remember as a young child being impressed with the realization that the Empire was the government and that the "good guys" were the minority of people fighting the government. It was never explained what precipitated the rebellion or what the Empire had ever done that was so bad. Merely depicting the Empire as evil (choking people, willing to blow up planets) and the rebellion as heroic, we never had to care exactly why this was all happening. An older audience could draw conclusions based on ideas about democracy vs empire, but the movie itself never felt preachy. We were given little tiny windows into the government and politics through snippets of dialogue (eg "senate will never stand for this"), but it was never the focus of the film.

What you've developed is excellent. I'm just trying to see how it works out in the fun and punchy Star Wars universe. I look forward to more!