jtr7 on 31/7/2007 at 02:50
I'm getting tired of the use of temporal anamolies to explain away bad writing and poor research. I'm hoping the truth behind the scenes is that the writers were given an improbable task of churning out too much, too fast, and they just used the old "ya know what I'd like to see?" approach.
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Has anyone adequately explained why, between the new series and the originals, Obi Wan has somehow aged 40 years in the time it took Luke to get to 19 years? Or how the Jedi went from law givers of the galaxy to merely "some weird old religion" in people's minds in about the same time?
The problem stems from
A New Hope when it was simply called "The Star Wars". Lucas wanted Obi-Wan to be very VERY old. He stuck to the spirit of that in the script even though Sir Alec Guinness--a half to two-thirds the age the script called for--was brought on to play the aged Jedi because that was too good of an opportunity for Lucas to pass up. The Anakin we see in Return of the Jedi was played by a man in his seventies. Although that could be explained as a consequence of the taking the Dark path, it never felt right, and not just because he wasn't James Earl Jones. It didn't help either that Sir Alec had almost no make-up to show the age the script called for. His character was supposed to be so old for a human that even the Force couldn't help him compensate (even a fraction of Yoda-style) against half a man in a walking iron-lung. There are these moments and bits of dialogue that reflect Lucas' original intent even though it's out of place with the actual people and fight-choreography used.
Muzman on 31/7/2007 at 05:04
Or he could have just not written his new series, full of options, to be so closely tied to the old series in really dumb "Wow, it is a small universe!" ways.
Dia on 1/8/2007 at 01:43
Thanks jtr. I just put that book on my Christmas list. :cheeky:
ZylonBane on 1/8/2007 at 04:55
Quote Posted by Thirith
Paraphrased from some Harry Potter thread: "A Sith did it."
*cough*Simpsons*cough*cough*
