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How is that different from what anyone is trying to do in this forum? How powerful is a turbolaser? It's just a device representing the overwhelming power of the Empire, don't try to melt it down and inject your favourite angle in! Even if that angle is implications or in-universe consistency! Is th...

Hey Stark, why are you even here? I'm a newbie inspired by a Bob Brown angle, coming here to see what people infinitely better-versed in SW has to say. Lemme run down the topics current on the forum. "How many ways could the Empire divide against itself?" Your answer: in exactly as many wa...

That said, while characterizing the Jedi as incompetent and too wrapped up in the greater good is acceptable, you really can't make them into villains. Then you'll be guilty of doing the same thing Karen Traviss does by nerfing the Jedi. And it's stupid anyhows, because you're messing with the very...

For the last time, all evidence points to midichlorians being an indicator, not the cause of the Force. For example, there exist a species of sentient, silicon-based, crystaline, lifeforms that are force sensitive, do these have midichlorians? Of course not, they don't have a blood system for them ...

You should totally make some more stuff up. Start writing for the EU, I hear they have pretty low standards. :lol: Your statements re 'midi genes' are particularly nonsensical and EU-worthy. The best EU authors, after all, are those that force their own preconceptions or attitudes into SW with no c...

The concept of getting cut off from the Force is very problematic, considering that the Force is in all life itself. I prefer to think that people who are "cut off" merely have their abilities to manipulate the Force for their neat magical powers severed, not the Force itself. Well, I've ...

In my 1st thread on this board, just a few topics down, I made kind of a big deal about Bob Brown's last few essays...but I think I started off the wrong foot with some regulars here and I want to explain myself. Aside from the timelessness of Star Wars ("ep4", meaning no offense to anyone...

PainRack wrote:From what I remember , he did complete and put up the essay.....

Wow. This is great news--this means that any mirrors that contain this essay may also contain other of Bob's finished essays (SW tragedy and SW myth).

I'm curious about what analysis Bob Brown and other (relative) purists came up with. He even admits it, openly calling what he wrote a "speculative essay." This whole thing is part fanfic, and part cynicism. He basically made up a bunch of stuff about how the Jedi were a jealous dogmatic ...

Well, I discovered and read his site because of analysis that I otherwise wouldn't have thought up by myself. For instance, I'm a very casual fan and I have no way of knowing that the first lightsaber-crystal reference was talking about just a decorative jewel...or that the Stormtrooper grenade may ...

No, I know he has no plans to return to SW-- I'm asking whether anyone, either by knowing him from before, or by reading his forum or mailing list postings, knows where he was going with this "no dark side"/"sinister jedi" line of thought. Also asking whether the essay was comple...

it's interesting that George Lucas referred to the Imperials as "Nazis" I would compare the Empire and Imperials with a distorted version of how Imperial Brittan would be in space. It's pretty simple where these analogies are subconciously, but validly and truthfully, going: Except for Ge...

I'm new here, and I'm very interested in technical analysis of the Jedi. Thus far, Bob Brown (available only on archive.org) has proven the best source. But, before his updates stopped--at least, on archive.org--he was working on a essay, "The myth of the dark side". Does anyone know if he...