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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.
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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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
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Brad Johnson
Master of Puppets said, "Screw wookies..."
Talk about getting your arms ripped off...
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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.
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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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