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Major Star Wars Character To Die in Next Books
Brandon Phillips wrote to us about a recent USAToday story concerning the next set of Lucas-approved post-TRJ books. R.A Salvatore is writing the new books (great author) and one of the major characters dies. Warning: by clicking through you will know who dies. Or just buy the book.
I hope that everyone who reads this knows, that if you continue reading, you will know who died. So if you don't want to know, don't read any farther.
Did you notice that Leia came out of the Ewok's apartment wearing her nightgown? What had been going on in there, anyway?
I think the Skywalkers are fond of intermingling the blood. Indeed, I suspect that Chewie was a half-brother to Luke and Leia -- he got the fur from an Ewok and the height from his father, Darth.
And then there's the machines. Upon disassembly, it shows that Darth himself was half machine. Thus his mother must have mated with droids. No wonder Annikin didn't have a father. (Nod, nod, wink, wink. It's always the same when there's a droid in the family, isn't it!) So is C3P0 actually Annakin's half brother, posing as his creation to save appearences for the family?
Ah, indeed! Much will be revealed in episodes 2 and 3.
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It's October 6th. Where's W2K? Over the horizon again, eh?
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
I think cut in half by a Sith is right. That way GL can license each half as a separate action figure, and rake in more money than otherwise.
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It's October 6th. Where's W2K? Over the horizon again, eh?
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Chewbacca's dead? About time. What the hell was a wookie anyway? A big hairy thing that had so little control over his appetites that he would ill-advisedly clutch at any hanging piece of rotting carcass, no matter what the surrounding dangers or likelihood that it was bait for a trap? Come on guys. The Ewoks(!) got the better of Chewbacca with nothing more than bloody meat and a net. Seems like wookies are the stupidest things walking.
And we're supposed to believe that this digusting, stinky beast, that can do little more than open its mouth and let loose a primal yawp of sorts -- even though seemingly every other race in the Star Wars milieu has acquired the capability of advanced communications and technology -- has left its forested home to become a navigator/co-pilot on a faster-than-light smuggling ship? Suuuure.
And there's that whole scene with C3PO and Chewie playing the quasi-chess game in Star Wars, where C3PO is warned that wookies pull the arms out of their opponents if that particular wookie is angered. Screw wookies, screw their arrogance, screw their propensity to physical violence, screw their stupidity and their inability to do anything other than yawn loudly, and screw Chewbacca. I'm glad he's dead. I hope he suffers first. I hope it's because he can't control his filthy self and reaches for a rotting piece of meat hanging from a trap on an alien world while the rest of them is conducting a highly secret, crucial mission.
Wookies suck.
This is just another example of "The Man" keeping the wookie down. Do the annoying, lilly-white non-furry people get it? No, they run around screwing each other. But what happens to the wookie....Thats right...killed off in a vague attempt to save a dying series....
Damn the Man!!!!!Save the wookie!!!!
All I gotta say is if when I click this link, I don't see that Jar Jar has died, I'm writing SW:JJD (SW: Jar Jar Dies) and releasing it on videocassette for $9.95 plus s&h.
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This is pretty f*cked up right here.
Oh well. The books pretty much sucked rocks anyhow. 99% of all sci-fi books suck anymore. They're like bad romance novels or something, coming out about twice a week. At least KJ Anderson's not writing it.
I completely gave up hope on the validity or integrity of any contemporary sci-fi novel when I saw a 'Star Trek: Voyager' and 'X-Men' crossover novel.
I couldn't stop laughing.
Blech. Signatures.
Y not off the Ewoks too?
You think they survived having the Death Star blown up over the planet while it was in low orbit? They're toast, and Endor is a desolate, ash covered radioactive hell hole, or at least it should be.
Unless, just maybe, it was a Potemkin Death Star, built to lure Skywalker, built out of tin foil and sticks. Yeah, we can rationalize that.
George
I don't know about you guys, but star wars has played itself out in my book.
A new hope was OK. Empire Strikes back was good. Return of the Jedi kinda sucked. Episode 1 was horrible. Episode II will be worse b/c Jar Jar and his gungan friends will be in it. Episode III hopefully won't come to existence.
I'm all burnt out on starwars. Mabye they should spread out the release dates a little more so all the people who were dissapointed with the last installment will have forgotten about it totally. That is how they caught people like my father. He was real excited about Episode I because he rememebered all the good things about starwars, and when he walked out he felt about as ripped off as he did when he walked out of Return of the Jedi.
Note to Lucas: Teach your kids how to make crummy movies so they can mooch off the pleasant memories of days past by making new starwars movies.
I think it is about time one of the major characters dies. I quit reading the books a long time ago because it was simply:
Our characters get into a sticky bind.
Our characters narrowly escape.
That gets really really boring after a while.
Han [singing to Limp Bizkit]: 'I did it all for the wookie. The wookie. I paid off his bookie, so stick it up your ..."
[ducking] Sorry, couldn't help myself. I do love the SW series, and while it's sad that a loved character had to die, it's way overdue.
Ender
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If he dies gruesomely (killed with a fingernail clipper over the course of several days, for example), then makes a suprise re-appearance at the end (a genetic clone made from the clippings, presumably), in the middle of the climactic fight between good and evil, and both sides stop fighting to beat him to death with their bare hands, then I would pay $99.95 plus s&h.
After the debacle of "The Phantom Picture" they made a marketing decision to heighten interest in the series by killing someone off. It couldn't be any of the really important (human) characters, so that left the droids and Chewie.
Nothing like letting plot and character development in a series be driven primarily by what spin agents and marketers think will sell to turn said series into crap. You always wind up the same flavor of regurgitated pap.
Then four different versions of Chewie appear and all claim to be the real Chewie.
It's all a very confusing (not to mention stupid) plot, but in the end, the real Chewie comes back from the dead and he has a sporty new hairstyle.
I know that everyone's going to start jumping into a hissy fit because a beloved character is dying, but take a moment to consider a few things. First of all, death is a natural occurance, and while few things in the Star Wars universe are completely natural, we cannot expect for death to be avoidable. If authors are going to continue the saga that Lucas began, then eventually we are going to have to come to terms with the fact that all of our favorite characters are going to die. Remember: Yoda only lived to be 900.
One day, even Luke and Han may pass on, so we should be prepared for it. Come to terms with it before it happens and then it won't be so hard to cope with. I know that we all love the series and would like for it to last forever, but it can't. Eventually, every story comes to an end.
Maybe there will eventually be new characters that can take the place of those that we have already come to know and love. Perhaps Lucas will sit down one day and write the rest of the story for us to read. I think that would be a treat. Maybe someone other than Lucas will want to continue the theatrical series. The future of Star Wars has unlimited possibilities.
I, too, wish that Jar Jar would be the one to bite the bullet, but consider this: he doesn't appear in episode IV, so maybe we will be afforded the chance to actually see it happen! That will be a fine day in the galaxy for sure!
Brad Johnson
Advisory Editor
Brad Johnson
This is a smart move for several reasons.
1) Chewie is popular, so people are interested in the notion of him getting killed. (Who would have cared if Lando bit the big one?)
2) Chewie never spoke a word of English and didn't have anything of a human face in the movies, so he doesn't seem so totally real that people will be seriously bummed out by his passing. (If Solo, for example, was killed, I'd more or less give up on the continuing adventures of the Star Wars universe).
3) Everyone loves Han Solo. This will put Solo in a very prominent position in this book, as well as in future books. He will surely feel the need to avenge Chewie, and there'll probably a lot of head-stuff going on with him for next couple books.
Marlboro
The reviews of this book on Amazon were often less than complementary. Anyone care to offer up any books written in the Star Wars universe that are top quality?
Try the Dark Force Rising series. I found them to be pretty well written, but only the first 3 ( I THINK they kept spinning off even though it was only a 3 book set in reality). They honestly followed some interesting tangents of the SW universe and read about like the original movies were written.
Kintanon
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You didn't read the link, did you? Here it is again.
a) The Death Star was not in low orbit.
2000 km is a pretty low orbit for something as massive as the Death Star.
b) There's no particular reason to think that the explosion released a significant amount of radiation.
What's your hypothesis for the Death Star's powerplant?
c) On a sheer mass scale, the Death Star wasn't nearly big enough to cover Endor in ash even if it had blown inside the atmosphere. It massed maybe half what the first one did, if it was lucky. Besides which, the thing broke into small enough pieces that it would have all burned up on entry into the atmosphere.
What do you mean it massed half what the first one did? It's twice the size, whatever that means, and has a diameter of 800-960 km.
So, it burns up into pieces upon rentry? Where do the dust sized pieces of the Death Star go? If the Ewoks are lucky, they precipitate straight down, otherwise they suffer a severe overcast sky for a decade. Unless those pieces of dust "burn" all the way into energy, hmm, e=mc^2, you figure out the joules released into the atmosphere.
Follow the link and get back to me.
George
After the massive disenchantment expressed by long-time SW fans over The Phantom Menace, this move by Lucas is upsetting, but not surprising. He's heard the frequent complaints that TPM was too trivial and candied, and despite his incessant protestations that this was just a "children's movie, for children", you know he's gotta be feeling the criticism.
After being idolized by so many of us for so long, how could he not be disturbed by our sudden loss of faith?
So Lucas is trying to prove he is not namby-pamby, and that the Ewoks and Jar Jar really aren't his notion of "pivotal characters". He wants to demonstrate to us that hey can be dark and brooding, and that terror still exists in the Star Wars universe.
But what a cheap means to do it! Kill off an old favorite (and notably, one who added more color than content to the series) and suddenly you gain both the attention and the approbation of people who have grown out of comical pratfalls. All it takes is a call to a popular author - you don't even have to invest your creative labor!
Sad. I suspect we will see increasing amounts of this as Lucas marches towards his next multi-million dollar flop. I predict large fuzzy giggling bunnies from outer space will dominate the next movie, and in the books Leia will get gang raped.
-konstant
-konstant
Yes! We are all individuals! I'm not!
Oops.
I guess you guys now know it's not Leia.
Sorry for the inadvertent spoiler.
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They killed Superman (brought him back too, but he was different) but it was superman, it wasn't Lois Lane or one of his superfriend sidekicks, the main character died. Never killed Batman but came close a few times, they probably don't need to kill him because they are willing to change the batman comics, they've killed Robin about 6 times though, Robin never comes back because they really kill him. Batman is just too badass anyways.
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Which reminds me. One thing that I've seen elsewhere that /. lacks is the ability to deliberately "hide" your own posts. This is useful both for spoilers and for offtopic posts. The reader can decide whether or not to read based on the title.
In addition, a "Spoiler" moderation option might be nice.
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