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G-FETT
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5/17/07 1:41pm
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I agree where Mungo is going with his ideas - From the perspective of The Empire, the rebels ARE terrorists. However, I think its important that the rebels aren't seen to act as terrorists to the viewers. The rebels are the good guys and having rebel "suicide bombers" would just blur the lines too much, IMO.
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DarthMateous
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5/17/07 2:19pm
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G-FETT posted:
I agree where Mungo is going with his ideas - From the perspective of The Empire, the rebels ARE terrorists. However, I think its important that the rebels aren't seen to act as terrorists to the viewers. The rebels are the good guys and having rebel "suicide bombers" would just blur the lines too much, IMO.
Well said. The rebels are just that: REBELS. That's the title we give to those people that are fighting as "terrorists" on the side of good. It makes it clear to the audience that we should cheer for the rebels because they're fighting against the evil Empire.
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Mungo
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DarthMateous posted:
Not to mention, we all know GL likes to steer clear of controversy.
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DarthMateous
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Mungo posted:
DarthMateous posted:
Not to mention, we all know GL likes to steer clear of controversy.
Okay. Fine. Name something that GL put in a movie to DELIBERATELY cause controversy.
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Mace_Won
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DarthMateous posted:
G-FETT posted:
There will almost certainly be a "throughline" but quite what it'll be I don't know.
I'm not sure it'll be Death Star plans though. Remember, the Death Star was being constructed even by the end of ROTS....
This is an idea that's always intrigued me. We know that Princess Leia ultimately ends up with the plans. So the naturally questions to ask would be:
How does Princess Leia get the plans to the Death Star?
Who did she get them from?
What if the people who got those plans to her died?
What if there were others who failed to get the plans to Leia?
What if some of those "others" had the plans at some point, only to have the Empire regain the plans?
If so, how did the Alliance regain the plans.
What if bounty hunters learned of the existence of the plans?
What would happen if the bounty hunters got their hands on the plans?
Etc...
At some point in time, upon becoming aware of the Death Star's existence, the Alliance had to determine that they needed to get their hands on those plans. So I thought that would make for an interesting throughline for the TC series with the natural series finale being the race to get the plans to Leia (again).
Of course, it's just one idea.
I know that if GL wants to, he can override any form of EU (even if it is through his own form of EU, in the case of the upcoming series), but actually the story of how the Death Star plans were attained has been covered in a video game that came out on the Playstation Portable earlier this year. I can't remember the name of it right now, for the life of me, but it looked pretty cool. It involved a female Twi'lek warrior along with a droid partner infiltrating some Imperial bases and gaining the DS plans.
Although the end of the game led right into the beginning of ANH, there are still some cool stories to be told about the plans and a sort of "capture the flag" battle over them, as you said, is still feasible for the show, I think. Heck, the DS took 20 years to build, so there had to be some kind of setbacks in the construction!
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There's a Death Star book coming out for god's sake. Maybe a couple of episodes devoted to it, but dear god, we've had ENOUGH Death Star Crap. It's 19 years before the damn is even dangerous, yeah, just leave it alone.
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The2ndQuest
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The Star Wars Radio Drama covered a lot of the "pre-ANH Death Star plans" storyline, and tells how Leia and her father learned of the Death Star and the convoy carrying the plans, as well as the Tantive IV's interception of the stolen plans and the subsequent pursuit by the Devastator. A brief sequence in the last Han Solo Trilogy book also shows a rebel group sending the plans that the Tantive IV intercepts.
Then you also have the weapon emplacement technical data Kyle Katarn steals in the Dark forces game (as I understand, it is this plotline the PSP/DS game, Lethal Alliance, mentioned earlier tie sinto), which was combined with the data Leia intercepted to form the complete tchnical readouts eventually uploaded into R2-D2.
The 19 year delay in the Death Star's construction has been explained as the result of sabotage and constant construction problems and relocation of the frame the Separatists left behind at the end of ROTS. It's not until the Maw Installation creates the Death Star prototype to work out the problems with the superlaser and power core that construction on the Death Star is able to resume to completion over Despayre.
I think it's a very good possibility we might see one of those sabotage efforts play out in the Tv series, but I wouldn't expect them to focus on the Death Star's entire history- it would make for redundant TV episodes (and push the credibility of it remaining secret for almost 2 decades if we keep having people stumble across it) and is better suited to the narrative of that upcoming novel more than the series.
However, it'd be absolutely spectacular if the TV series ended with an (expanded) adaptation of the earlier radio Drama episodes to bring us exactly up to the point the Devastator and Tantive IV zoom over Tatooine.
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G-FETT
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The2ndQuest posted:
However, it'd be absolutely spectacular if the TV series ended with an (expanded) adaptation of the earlier radio Drama episodes to bring us exactly up to the point the Devastator and Tantive IV zoom over Tatooine.
Yeah, that'd be REALLY cool. 
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DarthMateous
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5/18/07 8:17am
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The2ndQuest posted:
The Star Wars Radio Drama covered a lot of the "pre-ANH Death Star plans" storyline, and tells how Leia and her father learned of the Death Star and the convoy carrying the plans, as well as the Tantive IV's interception of the stolen plans and the subsequent pursuit by the Devastator. A brief sequence in the last Han Solo Trilogy book also shows a rebel group sending the plans that the Tantive IV intercepts.
Then you also have the weapon emplacement technical data Kyle Katarn steals in the Dark forces game (as I understand, it is this plotline the PSP/DS game, Lethal Alliance, mentioned earlier tie sinto), which was combined with the data Leia intercepted to form the complete tchnical readouts eventually uploaded into R2-D2.
The 19 year delay in the Death Star's construction has been explained as the result of sabotage and constant construction problems and relocation of the frame the Separatists left behind at the end of ROTS. It's not until the Maw Installation creates the Death Star prototype to work out the problems with the superlaser and power core that construction on the Death Star is able to resume to completion over Despayre.
I think it's a very good possibility we might see one of those sabotage efforts play out in the Tv series, but I wouldn't expect them to focus on the Death Star's entire history- it would make for redundant TV episodes (and push the credibility of it remaining secret for almost 2 decades if we keep having people stumble across it) and is better suited to the narrative of that upcoming novel more than the series.
However, it'd be absolutely spectacular if the TV series ended with an (expanded) adaptation of the earlier radio Drama episodes to bring us exactly up to the point the Devastator and Tantive IV zoom over Tatooine.
I agree. I think having the entire series based around the DS plans would be a bit redundant. However, I do think it would be great to see the last season revolve around this idea.
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ATTezeu
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What if they don't want to have a "throughline" and they make the series story by story, with new characters every episode, or once every 2 or 3 episodes? Like The Twilight Zone or Masters of SciFi.
I find this equally appealing because there's a lot of ground... or space, to cover in the "After order 66" Star Wars.
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