darklordoftech

TheBoost said (in a different thread): I understand why Chewie died. How exciting is a series of books where you know for a fact no matter where the story goes and what happens, the status quo for the core dozen characters will never ever change?

This is exactly what I hate about the Jedi and Sith in the EU. Whether the story takes place in 5000 BBY or 5000 ABY, you know from the beginning exactly how the Sith will rise, what the Sith will acheive, and how the Sith will fall.

Every single time:

Darth Bane concept art for The Clone Wars:

http://starwars.com/img/explore/the-clone-wars/slideshow/ep613/conceptart/darth-bane-clone-wars-613.jpg

The Lucas-Kasdan conversation says that not only do you not need midichlorians to use The Force, you don't even need a master to teach you how to use it! This truly means that anyone can use The Force.

The irony of this list is that TFN is far more close-minded than we are. They HATE anything that's not a rehash of the PT.

generalfrevious said:

FrankT said:

And it wouldn't have happened, either, if it wasn't for Disney's intervention! The only thing left to do now, of course, is to bring the OUT out of its moratorium.

 I agree. This will be all worth it if Disney releases the OUT. Even if the sequels totally suck.

Exactly. The PT-OT war will end when that happens.

DuracellEnergizer said:

Anchorhead said:

The EU is another matter entirely.  It's not a single entity (or in this case three) being squelched and damaged by a single individual who has no checks & balances.  The EU is a 35-year-old ongoing collection of works by over fifty individuals.  That will forever be a pick and choose as to what you accept or don't accept. 

It'd still be nice for me to read something new involving the Sith that didn't blatantly hit me over the head with prequelisms.

Agreed. This is why I'll always see the decision to set KOTOR so close to TOTJ as a jump the shark.

I hate that the founding of the Sadow-Kressh era Sith Empire was moved from 25,000 BBY to 7000 BBY. It ruins the idea that there truly was a Sith golden age before Naga Sadow and the Republic ruined everything.

imperialscum said:

darklordoftech said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Why not make the Hutt Empire the main adversary of the ST? It'd be interesting to see the Hutts invade the fragmented Empire/burgeoning New Republic and try to take control of their worlds. Frankly, it'd also be cool to see armies made up of Hutts who like this

This is a brilliant idea, duracell! I cannot put into words how much I love this idea!

You two have a strange sense of taste. This looks utterly ridiculous to me.

Our tastes are different, not strange. There's nothing strange about a difference of opinion.

imperialscum said:

I think Empire as an enemy is completely out of scope for EP7. After 30 years even the imperial remnant would die off.

Part of the Empire could have gone into hiding.

DuracellEnergizer said:

Why not make the Hutt Empire the main adversary of the ST? It'd be interesting to see the Hutts invade the fragmented Empire/burgeoning New Republic and try to take control of their worlds. Frankly, it'd also be cool to see armies made up of Hutts who like this

This is a brilliant idea, duracell! I cannot put into words how much I love this idea!

DuracellEnergizer said:

Tobar said:

Like the Yuuzhan Vong. *shudder* 

I'd take the Yuuzhan Vong over the One Sith or any such similar garbage. 

from favorite to least favorite:

1. Empire

2. Vong

3. Sith

DuracellEnergizer said:

I won't be convinced until the OOT gets a proper rerelease and the EU abandons the use of PT-styled Sith.

Neither will I be convinced until they do both of those things and Episode VII isn't prequelized. Anything else is just lip service.

Soeaking if who should be what species, I've always loved the idea that Maul is a Massassi (the red-skinned creatures who served Exar Kun).

Which OT?

The hyperspace barrier. It's extremely limiting.

There's plenty of worse villain ideas than the Empire returning.

Another reason for the Empire returning is that otherwise a new conflict would have to be introduced and resolved within 3 movies. There's no post-ROTJ equivilant of the "Clone Wars" concept for them to work with this time.

ATMachine said:

GL played with the statues of Maul and Talon like action figures and said "they're friends!" to illustrate his idea for the game concept.

Since that kills Legacy, thank you GL!

Yavin as a Jedi base.

I like the 1997 ending of ROTJ. Much more fitting for the end of the trilogy.

type 9: pre-1999 exclusives

Freedon Nadd. Created a Sith dynasty.

Forgetting the mythology. The dark side is evil, not something that should be balanced with the light side.

I'm hope that Luke ditches the marriage rule and the intertwinement with the Republic. In fact, how about all the Jedi being independent instead of there being a Jedi Order?

DuracellEnergizer said:

pablumatic said:

The sequels need to bring back the tension of the originals, but I don't exactly know how they'll do that given that the antagonists were soundly defeated in Return of the Jedi.

That's only true for the SE. The theatrical version leaves it up to the individual to decide for him/herself if the entire Empire was defeated in the Battle of Endor if it merely was the battle that spelled the beginning of the end for the Empire.

It's been confirmed that as far as the state of the Empire is concerned, what we saw in 1997 was always the intent (even if intent isn't canon). Of course, they could change their mind, but I don't find that very likely.

Anyway, something that went wrong is that lightsaber duels became all about "epicness" wih no emotion and disconnected characters.

corellian77 said:

Huh... I wonder where IGN got that screen grab from.  It's certainly not from any official source (BD, GOUT), is it?

It's not a screenshot of any VHS, DVD, or Blu-Ray, but it is a picture that I've seen in many places.