Either this: “…in his youth Greedo lived on Tatooine in Mos Espa alongside fellow Rodian Wald and Anakin Skywalker. When young Skywalker won the Boonta Eve Classic, Greedo accused him of cheating, and the two boys scuffled. Their fight was broken up by Qui-Gon Jinn, and Wald warned Greedo that if he continued his violent ways, he would meet a ‘bad end’.”
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Greedo
Or this: “in fact, she even danced the Dance of the Seventy Violet Veils at the wedding of Han Solo and Leia Organa where she would be spotted by a designer and became the model for his jeweled brassieres. After that Doallyn managed her career as a model. She had two daughters, named Luka and Leia after Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa”
This one is referring to the “Fat Dancer” from Jabba’s Palace. Apparently I’ve been wrong in assuming the past 20 years that she was just some lady who danced at Jabba’s Palace. She’s actually best friends with Han, Luke, and Leia!
What the heck?
Is the Star Wars universe smaller then my backyard and populated by less then a dozen people? Why do the same few people turn up in everything and knowing everyone? What kind of sense does that make?
I hate to say this about anything related to the first two seasons of TNG but I have to, they got it right. In the early first season Riker and others just barely remember who Kirk is because he was just some guy from history class when they were kids and the only two races from TOS that show up are Klingon and very briefly the Romulans. That is how you make a fictional universe feel big and epic and like there are more then two stories to tell. You don’t have the same races turning up all the time and you have people not know each other because the universe is a big place and they have never met.
Good night that was insane. This is why I could never get into the novels, they always seemed to just be retreading old ideas and characters instead of making new ones. I tried but as a kid I could never make it to the end of a Star Wars EU novel and I was Wodehouse and Shakespeare at the time so it wasn’t that they were too long or hard for me to read, they just seemed stupid and pointless.
That’s a good comparison; the closest tie-in during early TNG was Bones showing up in the pilot episode. I think that the dancer’s story (whose name is of course something along the lines of “Yarnu Glooptu-Goon”) was best friends with Luke. You see in the background of Jedi she is laughing hysterically at the green dancer being eaten by the Rancor. I assumed she died, along with all the muppets, when the barge was destroyed, but she’s actually just best friends with the Skywalkers and Solos.
Yeah, and even that was just a cute cameo of one character for the older fans and it was cut for time in reruns so it wasn’t like they were saying everyone happened to know everyone else.
Of course then they went the AU route with Voyager and TNG movies. The Voyager episode with the Tuvok flash back where it turns out he just happened to serve under Captain Sulu back in the day has to be an all time low point for this sort of thing.
One of the things I liked about episode 7 was that Jakku wasn’t Tatoonie so Rey didn’t happen to know a bunch of characters from the OT, that helped undo a lot of the damage done to the Star Wars universe by the PT and the EU and made it feel big again.