ST Should Luke be single, married, divorced, or a widower?

LOL wut? Wash and Zoe are married, Simon gets into Kaylee in about episode 13 and it's hardly a focus then, Jayne is into himself, and Mal is sexually attracted to Inara which again shows after about 10 episodes. Firefly is hardly the romance-based story that you all are demanding for Episode VII; if it were, I would hate it. It's primarily an adventure story, which makes it good.

Also, romance takes people out of reality, often in the dumbest ways possible. It doesn't ground them, and I don't want to see Luke turn into a love-struck idiot.

As far as "how Hollywood makes its movies," I don't participate on message boards for "typical Hollywood movies" and there's a reason for that; most of them aren't worth my time. I also don't understand why you are so set on stereotypes. The "stereotypical male" and "stereotypical female" serve the same purpose as the "in-crowd" in high school: the marginalization of anyone who doesn't fit, the attempts to shun people who are "different." I have no respect for any company that toes the stereotype line. I'm willing to give Disney the benefit of the doubt here when it comes to Star Wars.

 

Well, with all the time he spent around a lonely campfire with Sam and Gollum I refuse to believe SOMETHING didn't happen.

 

Again I prefer Luke to have a child to carry the Skywalker line but if he doesn't or if he isn't married then I don't think it is that big of a deal. Like I said it could just be a personal choice that he is not forcing on his Jedi Order. I think there are other ways to show that Luke's order has progressed from the old one than to give him a wife and kid(s).

 

I like the idea of a Skywalker heir so I'd prefer Luke to have/have had a wife. If Luke doesn't have a wife or child I'm okay with that too, but I'd want a better reason than just the "no attachment" rule. Luke has already disproven several of the old order's rules, including that one, so I don't see him feeling bound by it. If it's a personal choice then fine, just leave it for jedi to decide for themselves. That way Leia can be a jedi and still marry Han.

 

Apparently not, because if I saw Mal and Inara "going crazy" over each other (which is quite the opposite of "acting like they don't care", BTW, so I'm not sure how you're even conflating the two), I would have turned it off within half an hour of the Serenity episode.

I'm also not sure how I'm "dealing in absolutes" when I'm not the one who is saying that Luke "absolutely" must have a love interest, especially a woman.

Luke being gay, OTOH, I would like--at least until somebody with no scientific knowledge of homosexuality starts claiming that kissing his sister made him gay.

I'll take that over the Mara Sue "Oh she's so strong and brave and beautiful that even her 16-year-old nephew wants her" that we get in the books.

 

We don't know yet if Leia will be a Jedi or not. If the writers want Luke to follow the old Jedi Code then perhaps Leia chose Han and a family instead. I hope the writers don't do that because I want to see Leia as a Jedi and Luke as a father. I was responding to Ryus who said Gandalf was a bad comparison because he was a Maiar and I was simply saying that if the writers wanted to they could have Luke follow the old Jedi Code which would not allow him to form attachments. That's all.

 

I've never read a book featuring Mara, so I don't have an opinion on her one way or the other. I will say that if Luke is/has been married then they may use the Mara Jade name to avoid confusion and because she's popular with a segment of fans. That doesn't mean that her character won't be drastically changed, just that her name is recognizable.

 

Honestly I would love it if they gave us a completely different wife if only to witness the massive flame wars that would ensue!

 

The echos of the silent implosion of this forum, some segments of the Lit forum and the "Beyond" segment of the Fan Fiction forum will echo all the way across the Internet. And I will thoroughly enjoy it.

I'm not anti-EU, I like the NJO novels that I've read, but excising the Mara scenes would only make them better novels. I have to speed-read through all the Luke/Mara scenes so I won't need either a fluoride rinse or brain bleach. Back to the Vong's gravitational wells and coralskippers and the bewildered New Republic getting its collective ass kicked, please and thank you.

 

The problem with that is the EU. Not because of canon, but because of marketing. Mara is popular and well established, and branding is important. If someone wants to get into the EU after watching the films then it makes sense for at least the names to match up even if the event details don't. I have at least a dozen friends who have never read a single Star Wars novel, but they know who Mara Jade is. It's just a simple matter of why create a new name when you already have one that's recognizable. I don't care if they use Mara or not, but if Luke has/has had a wife then it makes sense to use the name.

 

Your ruining my dream of watching as people tear into each other over a fictional character with your common sense.