Aha, I knew it, so Lucas DIDN'T tell them to kill Anakin Solo...

"No, George did not tell us to kill Anakin. He didn't tell us to kill anybody. He approved the deaths of characters, in theory, then told us who we COULDN'T kill (i.e., Luke). The creative group decided the main story plotpoints (i.e., the deaths) and the author(s) created the action and situations."

-Sue Rostoni, VIP thread starwars.com

Oh, how much their story has changed, while they were always trying to put the blame on someone else... but now they finally decided to fess up, that it was their idea, not Lucas' idea.

 

Word.

Glad to hear that.

::loves GL a little more now::

::continues sending hateful mail to Troy Denning and the rest of Del Ray::

 

WHAT THE FRAG!!!!!!!!! so anakin did not have to die,he had so much potential and still did it.

don't blame troy denning he only writes the sence they made the decision to kill him not denning.

 

Not really that big a surprise.

 

I don't blame Troy Denning. I don't have enough info to know who exactly to blame. But he still contributed.

Though he did write a spectacular finale for the young Jedi.

If he had to go, I guess that's the way I would want it.

 

This just leaves us with two alternate stories. How do we know this one is true and the other story is not.

Two different people as I recall mentioned that Lucas said to kill Anakin, and Sue Rostoni says otherwise now. Why should we consider this to be reliable?

Maybe Lucas just asked Del Rey to take the hit for him.

 

Actually Sue Rostoni was the one that gave the two different stories each time, IIRC.

Then there was Shelly Shapiro, who claimed she made up the story and reason given in the round robin interview, speculating off of what Rostoni said, she didn't really know what actually happened.

Plus Leland Chee on the VIP threads said something to the effect that Lucas involvement for most things only goes as far a small synopses(he may write notes on the margins) or questionnaire.

 

<<::continues sending hateful mail to Troy Denning and the rest of Del Ray::>>

Because Denning does, of course, deserve it. He said "Please, oh please, let me kill Anakin Solo! I hate him ever so much! Besides, I wanna piss off this person on TFN's forums named Gaeri..."

 

"Creative group"?!?!??!?!?! That's what they called???? I would have given another name...

 

That's why I stopped asking questions on the TOS's VIP board. It was those kind of responses that weren't answers I usually received. Ultimately, not worth bothering.

 

Nobody, at any time, has ever siad that GL told anyone to kill Anakin Solo. He told them that Anakin could not be the hero, but that is all.

 

They all sound like my kids. "He did it, Not me" "I didn't do it" "It wasn't my fault" "We don't know how it happened"

Where is that rolleyes icon?

 

Thanks for the thread, Val - at LAST, some solid data.

 

THANK YOU!!

THANK YOU!!!

THANK YOU!!!!

I tried to explain this to people in the other threads that were so dedicated to blaming GL. It's awesome to actually get confirmation of this.

 

Hello, friends.

 

Or in other words... "Not me!" made the decision.

YubYub and TG- Protecting fangirls from hormonally gifted fanboys since 2002

 

It's simple (and has been said before):

Original plan was to kill Jacen and have Anakin be the hero. GL nixed the plan for Anakin being the hero, but that was all he said. The editors decided the easiest thing to do would be to just reverse the roles of the two brothers.

 

This contradicts what we had last week. DR said the directive came from Lucas. Now this changes that statement.

You know, feedback or proper evaluation is hard to deliver with just a few sentences.

And that's all it is, really: a few sentences of a larger picture.

 

really?! wow...well...for what it's worth...i'd hoped they had done in jaina or jacen instead of the cool solo kid. well, at least GL is backing up luke....somebody has to in the NJO.

 

George didn't tell us to kill Anakin: no, he told them to swap Anakin and Jacen's plotlines...

There are two immediately obvious possibilities here:

either: George told them not to kill Jacen, which forced them to swap the Solo brothers round at some point... an abrupt switch at the stage of Star by Star which should have ended with Anakin captured and Jacen dead? Or a longer-term plan, necessitating the character-swapping which made Jacen the thinker and Anakin the action hero?

or: George told them that Anakin, not Jacen, was the Son of the Son of the Son of the Suns, and that if either kid had to die and be reborn (which is different from being killed) it was Anakin...

Now in all probability, this was an editorial decision that fell between stools and approximates most closely to the first option... but at the same time, it's gnawing at me that it's been flagged since Dark Empire that Anakin was the really important one...

Talk amongst yourselves...

- The Imperial Ewok

 

I hate to break it, but unless there's something incestual going on, Anakin is only the Son of the Daughter of the Son of the Suns. Which unfortunately doesn't have quite the same ring.

-Paul

 

no, he told them to swap Anakin and Jacen's plotlines...

Wrong. GL said Anakin can't be the hero. That is all he said! He didn't mention anything about Jacen, or about killing either one. All he said was "Anakin can not be the hero."

 

Thrawn McEwok wrote:

George didn't tell us to kill Anakin: no, he told them to swap Anakin and Jacen's plotlines...

No, he didn't. He simply told them Anakin couldn't be the hero. DR made the choice to simply switch the characters around.

 

That actually makes me kind of mad that the DelRay editors couldn't own up and take some freaking responsibility.

 

Lucas said "Anakin who??? No no, I killed him off in Episode VI"