Lit MACLUNKY -- The Lit Forum Maclunky Thread, v3

There was a thread on Twitter about which Star Wars character people would want to see in live-action, and reading though the responses really highlighted to me how there are two types of Star Wars fans.

Fan #1: Revan! Mara Jade! Starkiller! Thrawn!

Fan #2: Rotta and the Sun King from the Ewoks cartoon.

 

I just realized an easy way the prequel trilogy could have been improved... have Owen Lars appear in Episode I as one of Anakin's childhood friends.

 

Good idea.

I had an idea myself recently that Beru should have been Anakin's sister - I can't remember if her maiden name was established as Whitesun already, but honestly the PT retconed enough that what would have been one more? In any case, I think it could have added something to the characters involved and makes the Larses more involved in the plot.

 

Even if Beru's maiden name was already Whitesun, that didn't necessarily mean that she and Anakin couldn't have been sisters. It was once canon that Owen was actually Obi-Wan's brother despite their different last names. I think the potential implication may have been that Jedi change their names. Like Obi-Wan was born Ben Lars and he changed his name to Obi-Wan Kenobi after becoming a Jedi.

 

Reposted from the meme thread.

 

https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Chuck_Dixon

Fitting that Chuck Dixon wrote a Grievous comic, because nowadays he's writing neo-Confederate superhero comics about handing immigrants over to ICE. And making superhero comics about Q of Q-anon.

Yikes.

 

That's a sad way to end up.

 

Yikes indeed.

 

....ew wow. Not exactly a great "where are they now?" moment.

 

Is it weird that we haven't gotten our own Tales From Takodana Castle novel yet?
I bet credits to blue donuts that it would sell on a level as Tales From Jabba's Palace and Tales From Mos Eisley Cantina

 

Maz is criminally under used as someone that can spin yarns about a millennium of galactic history, about Jedi and the underworld.

 

Both her and half of the other patrons we see in her castle during Force Awakens would have interesting tales behind their presence in the area itself

 

So, this is new to me: there are people that believe Lucasfilm doesn't own the old Expanded Universe. Like, they belligerently believe that the publishing license Bantam, Del Rey and Dark Horse had confers ownership of the EU to those companies not LFL. Even when show the trademarks and copyright notices in the books.

Weird.

 

So, it's the usual internet "I can absolutely assert that the earth is flat / 2+2=3 / we are in the Matrix" (delete as applicable) bollocks?

 

It's really bizarre, because it was used for why the sequel trilogy wasn't an adaptation of the EU.

I dont know why misunderstanding licensing is an easier means of understanding than not making movies that either adapt existing stories and having to mangle them in such as way as to still de-canonize the EU and alienate that fanbase and get their vitriol OR lose general audiences because you have 4 decades of major story and character development entirely off screen. It was either that or start fresh with a clean break.

Aside from having a cohesive vision of what was trying to be said that would have furthered and capped off the Skywalker family saga, we were still dropped into a sequel era that looked and felt far too much like the OT without justifying itself. We needed the transition. But it would have been far more jarring to pick up with 70 year old Luke and Leia, 80 year old Han, their granddaughter, 40 year old Jaina and 20 year old Ben with 3 massive galaxy changing wars all off screen.

*Edit* Apologies for the run-ons. Haha

 

Weirder is it can be argued the ST is drawing from EU - return of the Emperor, another Jedi purge, new superweapons, kid gone dark. It's all there.

 

It could easily be argued that it's a clever mash up of Dark Empire, LOTF and Legacy. One that's accessible to general audiences.

 

Ah, the Maclunky thread ... I've not stuck my head in here in a long time. A long time ...

Anyway, I just got the 18-Electron Rule trophy, and I wanted to somewhere state the utter inconceivability that my account is old enough to be a legal adult. If I'd made my first post when my hypothetical wife was in labor (and thinking of whom I was seeing at the time, that's it's own mini-nightmare, but I digress), that kid would be graduating high school. It's not okay that my account, and by extension it's owner, is this old.

Thank you. We now return you to your regularly scheduled Maclunky.

 

Thanks for prompting me to find my trophies. I got Sweet Sixteen in December. I made my account 8 months after my eldest son was born. Haha

 

That's a "novel" one (get it?), but not necessarily more or less out there than other ideas floating around the fringes (Disney is going to decanonize the ST due to fan backlash, etc). On the one hand I'd be interested in hearing the legal beagle(s) behind this theory answer some of the obvious questions it raises, but on the other I feel like I'd develop a headache in short order so maybe not.

 

I've got a less painful option for you involving these Imperial issue headphones....

 

Anyone know what’s up with Joe Bongiorno’s Facebook page? Looks like he either took it down or made it private. Is anyone here on his Discord or know if he’s said anything about it? Still hoping to see him upload those German Ewoks comics one day.

 

He said Facebook suspended his page. He appealed the suspension.

 

Oh that’s a shame, I wonder what he got in trouble for.