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Re: SW set list for 2000
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lugnet.starwars
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Fri, 22 Oct 1999 19:49:39 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Mike Petrucelli writes:
> James Simpson wrote:
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> > In lugnet.starwars, Damian Garcia writes:
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> > > Eric Kingsley wrote in message ...
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> > > And THAT is why I try not to stray from the movies. If there was one story
> > > about his survival, I might have bought it. Since writers want their own
> > > manifestation of Boba Fett alive in their stories, The story becomes a bunch
> > > of "what ifs" and "thats how I see its". I know alot of people will call me
> > > narrow minded, but if it was not in a Lucas movie, I don't give it much
> > > credit. If Lucas wanted Boba Fett to survive, He would have chronicled his
> > > survival in one of the movies. As with (almost) everything Star Wars
> > > nowdays, Bringing back Boba Fett was nothing more than a financial ploy.
> > > Next thing we are going to hear is that Darth Maul survived. "No, really!!
> > > Watch it again, as he his tumbling down the pit in two pieces, you see his
> > > legs and body tumble back into place..."
> >
> > I completely agree. I do not think that the power of Star Wars can be conveyed
> > in print in any way that does justice to the feel, to the texture of the saga.
> > The books try to capture the epic quality of the movies, but in this they fail.
> > SW and TESB created something unique; the books just seem to rework the
> > scenarios; they don't seem to have an original vision. I believe that the
> > movies stand alone above the cheap fiction that aspires to copy the grandeur.
> > In my opinion, the books should be taken with a grain of salt. No matter how
> > many books have Boba Fett escaping from the Sarlaac Pit, he was in there for a
> > thousand painful years, and I have no reason to believe that he escaped. Who
> > among us would have fallen in love with "Star Wars" if it existed entirely in
> > the written medium? Those extra books try to extend the myth, but they don't
> > create anything that even remotely resembles the quality of the films (well,
> > the
> > quality of Episodes IV & V, anyway). The movies take precedent over the books.
> > Again, just MO, but there it is.
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> George Luscas has a team of people that do nothing but insure that all
> the movies, books, comics, and even the plots of the computer games fit
> into a complete non-contradictory and interlaced story. For example, SW
> ep.4 special edition had the "outrider" fly out of Mos Eisly as Luke and
> Obi-wan get there in the speeder. The "outrider" was only ever seen in
> a comic book before that. Bottom line: whether or not we like it the
> books and comics are unlike Star Trek stuff, considered canon. (canon
> refers to occurances in the ficticous universe that are regarded as fact
> within that universe and cannot be contradicted.)
Point well-taken and partially conceded. I realize that Lucas licenses all SW
products and literature, which makes me call into question the better judgment
of allowing so much thrown-together nonsense to become part of the "official"
SW
galaxy. I'm just not prepared to accept any weak story line or any piece of
hack writing simply because it bears the mark of approval by Lucasdom.
Inconsistent, I admit. Even hypocritical? Maybe so. But Star Wars has meant
too much to me simply to swallow so much garbage that only brings it all down.
James "I've no need for a protocol droid" Simpson
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| (...) I understand your point of view and to some degree sympathize with it. My only consolation is that Lucas trys to make sure it is all consistent with everything else. Paramount on the other hand totally destroyed Star Trek with all that crap (...) (25 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) George Luscas has a team of people that do nothing but insure that all the movies, books, comics, and even the plots of the computer games fit into a complete non-contradictory and interlaced story. For example, SW ep.4 special edition had the (...) (25 years ago, 22-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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