Burdokva said:

To be honest, I'd be glad if Wedge was not a Jedi. I'm tired of lightsabers, robes and the Force (yes, I know I'm a minority), and of the things the PT desperately lacked was central (or even good supporting) characters who were not Jedi or Sith.

We do not need another such trilogy...

Also, pilots are way cooler than Jedi. Proof?

Han Solo and Wedge Antilles.

;)

I'm with you, Jedi and the force are a pretty cool concept. But I like them in the way I like wizards in fantasy, if every character is a wizard, they aren't as interesting anymore. What is so cool about Gandalf if Aragorn, Gimli, and Legolas are all lesser wizards themselves, while Frodo and Sam are future wizards in training potentially being led astray by the evil petty wizard Golem? That sounds like an absolutely awful story.

In the video game Dark Forces the character Kyle Katarn was conceived as kind of a James Dean looking low brow James Bond in space. I really liked this character, he had a lot that made him interesting on his own. For the sequel, they pretty much gave him the exact same back story that Luke originally had, his Jedi Knight father was murdered by an evil Sith Lord, with his father's old lightsaber in hand he must set out to learn the ways of the force, like his father before him, and eventually destroy the Sith Lord. Now instead of being an interesting character on his own, it became almost impossible not to see him as a hard to believe silly hybrid of the characters of Luke and Han.