My thoughts on Star Wars.

See, I told you some of my posts would be inane.

First of all, I would like to say that I think that Star Wars is one of the greatest pieces of Pop Fiction ever. I am a huge fan, even to the point that I read the books, in fact after I write this post, I will be heading upstairs to work on Zahn's "The Last Command", the third book in the GREAT Thrawn Trilogy.

But I must say something. Nerds everywhere will hate me for it but... it must be said.

The plotlines are inconsistent.

Granted, Fandom and George Lucas have done a pretty decent job trying to paste everything together, but when you turn one movie into six movies, hundreds of books and magazines, and almost a hundred videogames, you are going to mix something up somewhere.

1) The Clone Wars in the Fiction written before the Prequel Trilogy (PT) is nothing like the Clone Wars George Lucas presents in the PT. In the Thrawn Trilogy for example, the Clone Wars were speculated to have been between the Light and Dark Jedi, and the referenced Clones were the Cloned Jedi themselves. For example a main antagonist is Joruus C'boath, a clone of the dark Jedi Jorus C'boath who was set on the Planet Wayland to watch over a hidden arsenal of the Emporers'.

(Correction. Ironically, after reading last night, I found that I had misinterpreted the Clone Wars as portrayed in Zahn's Fiction. While there are Cloned Jedi involved the war does involve Clone soldiers, and it is a political war as in the PT. Oops, now I look like a fool. Of course anyone who cares that much really wouldn't insult me anyway. IT is just fiction after all)

2) R2D2 just rocks more in the PT than in the OT. Who knew he could fly? And why didn't he get up off his butt and Save Luke at Tatooine? Let's see, throw a lightsaber and let him fend for himself, or throw him the lightsaber and kick some butt too... hmm....

3) THERE IS NO MENTION OF THE SITH IN THE OT! The Prequel Trilogy goes into great detail to paint Palpatine and Anakin/Vader as the last and most powerful Sith Lords, however, in the OT they are simply referred to as Jedi who fell to the dark side. Both Yoda and Obi-Wan know who and what the Sith are in the PT, but by the time of the Rebellion, they have forgotten altogether?


Do you know what this proves?

I need to get a life.