According to the Legends novel Death Star and the Canon novel Tarkin, Tarkin strongly suspects that Vader is Anakin.
Before the prequels were made, I would have thought that the Jedi weren’t known to the people of the Republic to begin with.
I hate that Legends was discontinued in favor of something that doesn’t flesh out the lore as much. I wish Dawn of the Jedi and the potential for similar efforts to flesh out the lore, the Essential Guides, the Lucenoverse, etc. got to continue. I’m sick of everything being “Star Wars: (character name)”. I also hate that the Son of Dathomir and Dark Disciple episodes of TCW haven’t been made and that George’s remaining ideas, whether they’re good or bad, are locked in the Disney Vault. I miss the complete soundtracks for the OT and TPM and I don’t care for Disney’s abuse of copyright laws or their refusal to pay royalties to the authors they employ. Disney has been even worse at acknowleding the existence of the original versions of the movies than George was and has been much more opaque about the production of the movies.
I like Rebels, the Tales of the Jedi episode about Dooku and Yaddle, the episodes of the Bad Batch with Mas Amedda and The Emperor, the references to KOTOR lore throughout The Book of Boba Fett and Andor, and The Acolyte. I like that Disney got Ian McDiarmid to voice Palpatine/Sidious/The Emperor in animation. I like that Tagge leaves the Death Star before its destruction in the post-2014 canon. I enjoyed the hype for the Sequel Trilogy. I enjoyed seeing Nal Hutta in live action in The Mandalorian and Grogu.
As for whether George would have made a Sequel Trilogy if he didn’t sell Lucasfilm or if he wrote the treatments just to encourage Disney to buy Lucasfilm or to get them to pay more, your guess is as good as mine.
I find it interesting how the Children of the Watch resemble the idea common before AOTC was released that Boba Fett never removes his helmet. I remember people complaining about the Fetts showing their faces in AOTC.
How did fans react to the introduction of these characters when ESB was first released? How did they react to the reveal that the muppet was Obi-Wan’s master? How did they react to Darth Vader bowing to someone and calling someone “my master”?
The entry for “Dark Lord of the Sith” in Star Wars Encyclopedia (1998) says that “Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine were the most recent Dark Lords of the Sith”. Perhaps Sansweet had inside knowledge about the prequels and slipped up when he identified Palpatine as a “Dark Lord of the Sith”?
Luke’s rotating love interests in between The Last Command and Specter of the Past.
Luke’s rotating love interests in between The Last Command and Specter of the Past are the sort of things that Lucasfilm should have vetoed.
Going into the heart of darkness to understand the darkside is exactly what Ulic did. It seems to be something Veitch was interested in, if he used it more than once.
I recall Veitch saying that Carl Jung said that you have to embrace your shadow in order to defeat it or something like that when asked why he had Luke and Ulic try to defeat the dark side from within.
I wonder why KOTOR didn’t try to appeal to prequel haters by having Jedi be allowed to marry and start training as adults.
Was the intention in 1977-1983 that the Jedi were secretive even before the rise of the Empire and the Jedi Purge? That would explain why Han and Motti don’t believe in The Force, Obi-Wan mentioning that Vader was his pupil and Vader mentioning that Obi-Wan was his master doesn’t lead anyone to realize that Vader is Anakin, and why Luke doesn’t recognize Yoda.
I also find it interesting that Luke seems to hide his meeting with Yoda from the Rebellion in ROTJ.
It might just be the result of a different sound mix being used, just like “you’re lucky you don’t taste very good” vs. “you’re lucky to get out of there” and “trust me” vs. “I can see a lot better now.”
KOTOR taking place so soon after TOTJ.
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I don’t have enough experience with anything besides GOUT to say.
You can pick GOUT or any of the pre-Special Edition releases.
Luke not knowing about his mother until after NJO. They should have said that Luke knew about his mother after his conversation with ghost Obi-Wan in ROTJ at the latest even if they couldn’t reveal that information to the reader.
The BBY/ABY calendar existing in-universe.
Why do you hate it? I do not mind it.
Why would the New Republic establish a new year 0? Isn’t that something totalitarian regimes do? Why not use whatever year 0 the Valorum-era Republic used?
The BBY/ABY calendar existing in-universe.
Is it possible that at the time that reshoots and editing for ESB finished, Lucas intended for Leia to be the other hope, but didn’t intend for her to be Luke’s sister? Luke being able to speak to Leia through The Force implied that Leia is Force-sensitive.
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In the Leigh Brackett draft, Luke’s father is referred to simply as “Skywalker”. In the movie, The Emperor refers to Luke as “the son of Skywalker”.
Greedo talks as though Jabba has already given up on Han and has already put a significant price on his head.
Shortly after, Jabba and Han talk as though Greedo is just Jabba’s lackey and Jabba is looking for Han to pay up, threatening only then to put a bounty on his head.
I agree with all this. Of course, there are ways to rationalize it. Perhaps Greedo is exaggerating Jabba’s anger level in order to trick Han into handing over all the money he owes Jabba - so that Greedo can pocket it, perhaps after killing Han. Greedo tells Han “If you give [the money] to me, I might forget I found you.”
But I agree the whole thing is still very weird - the two scenes are redundant, and suggest entirely different threat levels from Jabba. But early drafts of Star Wars indicate these two scenes were NOT supposed to be mutually exclusive. Both the Greedo scene and the Jabba scene appear together in early drafts, indicating Lucas really did originally want to have both scenes. The best explanation is that Greedo was trying to pocket the money owed to Jabba from Han. His name is “Greedo” after all.
What you linked to isn’t an early draft of the script, but rather a version of the script created after the release of the movie and published in 1979.
Here’s the shooting script:
It’s unclear whether all of this was Lucas’s concept, or if it was Brackett’s concept that he borrowed.
There’s a city in the clouds in the first 3 drafts of the script for ANH. McQuarrie’s art for this city in the clouds was used for Cloud City in ESB.
For the Legends Old Republic era:
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Were Red Lightsabers supposed to denote evil? Because I swear in the EU red meant synthetic and the reason the Sith used them was because they didn’t have access to natural crystals.
In the pre-AOTC EU, lightsaber colors don’t have any meaning. In fact, Leia has a red lightsaber in some books and some of the Jedi on the council in TPM had red lightsabers.
When George explained the meaning of lightsaber colors to Samuel L. Jackson, the EU introduced the synthetic crystal lore to explain it in-universe. However, Shadows of the Empire established that Luke’s ROTJ lightsaber has a synthetic crystal, so we know that synthetic crystals aren’t inherently red. My headcanon is that the Sith make their lightsabers red to honor the Sith species.
That Darth Andeddu is implied to have been part of the Sith Empire seen in Tales of the Jedi: The Golden Age of the Sith in spite of the fact that between being a Darth and fleeing to a Deep Core planet, Andeddu doesn’t fit the lore of the Sith Empire. It would have made more sense for Andeddu to be from the New Sith Wars.
That the Dark Jedi ancestors of Naga Sadow were retconned from having lived ~25,000 BBY to having lived ~7000 BBY without any reason being given for the retcon and therefore the conflict between the Jedi and the Dark Jedi ancestors of Naga Sadow was retconned from being the “First Great Schism” to being the “Second Great Schism” in spite of the fact that Tales of the Jedi: The Golden Age of the Sith refers to that conflict as the “First Great Schism”.