Knife wrote:That's your opinion, mine differs. Anything of the old EU that was 'smart', 'cool', or 'novel' has since been over used and over done to such an extent that it's as shitty as the other parts of the old EU.
Why does that not apply to things that were introduced in the films that have been used just as much, if not more so? Like Star Destroyers, Stormtroopers, Jedi, Sith, the Force, etc...?
No reason at all that I see, other than prejudice.
If they have a blue dude with red eyes in the back ground scene in a Star Destroyer, I don't care, but any Grand Admiral Thrawn action will get a negative response from me.
I prefer subtle references, in general, to heavy-handed or overly extensive ones.
They have a golden opportunity here to start something new, not give fanboys the fan film they've been dreaming of.
Oh, I'm all for something new. But I'm not for rejecting sensible ideas because they happened to have been in the EU.
Meh, that Luke would have kids is not obvious. He was an orphaned kid of a dead war hero brought up by his 'uncle' only to find out the galaxies most feared man who kills his friends and mentors is actual not only a monster but dear old dad. Sure he gets dad to pull back a bit at the end and not be a totally evil ass until death, but does have this heavy legacy of strong and powerful, yet possibly evil magic that screwed the galaxy over and can be passed down to children theme going for him. Same for Leia to be honest. Hell for all we know, Han and Leia got it on after ROTJ, then broke up when Leia refused to carry on the legacy and decided not to have kids.
Well, their's nothing saying Luke, Leia, or Han has to have had a child. But its plausible that any of them could have (reproducing is a very common human goal, after all), with or without the EU.
It would work as well as further sacrifice for Luke to live the monks life, much like his masters before him.
This, at least, I profoundly and emphatically disagree with, to the point that I would consider this proof of a deep failure on your part to understand the evolution of the Jedi in the films.
The Jedi start out as an emotionally stifled order, rejecting attachments, and it worked badly for them.
However, during Revenge of the Sith, we see a change beginning to occur. A particularly subtle but telling line is Yoda telling the Wookies that he will miss them when he leaves. I like to take that as a tacit admission by Yoda that he was wrong, that even he was subject to emotional attachment, and that that wasn't necessarily a bad thing. Then their's Kenobi's emotional rant to a crippled Vader on Mustafar, and Yoda and Kenobi's decision to let Luke and Leia be raised by families (though they didn't have a lot of options then).
It comes full circle during Return of the Jedi, when Luke's love for his father renders him unwilling to kill Vader, and he ultimately redeems Vader. And Vader's love for Luke, for his
child, is what leads him to defeat Palpatine, to do what all the Jedi Order and their armies could not.
The Jedi Order grew and changed, embracing emotion, and Luke was the ultimate embodiment of that change. So to have Luke go off to live a lonely, loveless life like the old Jedi would be more than a blunder. It would be a betrayal.
