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Post #621861

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Bingowings
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The Star Wars Spin Off Ideas Thread.
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Date created
8-Feb-2013, 3:50 PM

The Star Wars that most people like isn't black and white, good guys vs bad guys.

Han is a smuggler (possibly a drug smuggler... I know spice could just be spice but there are only so many flavours and this is a world with FTL travel).

Leia is subverting the Government that she plays a minor role in (she is using her diplomatic position for espionage work).

Luke starts out wanting to join the Imperial Academy despite claiming to hate the Empire.

Kenobi lies to Luke repeatedly to manipulate him into killing his father (by evoking vengeful ideas in Luke by claiming Vader killed his father and obscuring his true identity).

All of them keep Artoo and Threepio (sentient beings capable of independent thought, action and emotion) as slaves and never question this.

Vader the notional villain of the piece is granted absolution for an act of political assassination which he has been planning for decades before he learns of Luke's identity.

The PT has so many problems it's difficult to list them but blurring the line between black and white is not one of them.