Oh mah gawd, Lowbacca! The Star Wars EU Discussion Thread
Jul 3, 2015 17:03:58 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2015 17:03:58 GMT
Since the Star Wars EU, or 'Legends' as it's supposed to be called these days, is so awesome and great, I decided that the franchise deserves its own discussion thread. Talk about your favourite old, now completely non-canon and meaningless Star Wars EU tales and adventures here! Oh yeah, and you can talk about the new EU by Disney too!
I recently discovered on an obscure indie superhero database website that Obi-Wan Kenobi apparently has a brother called Owen. In the Return of the Jedi novelisation, Obi-Wan referred to Owen as his brother, which obviously can't be true since they share little interactions with each other in the movies. It turns out that years later (as in, literally a few years ago at the time of me writing this), someone realised this inconsistency existed and wrote a story about Obi-Wan seeing visions of a supposed brother that he never knew called Owen. When he arrived on Tatooine to give Luke to the Lars family, he met Owen Lars for the first time and realised that this Owen was indeed his brother, even though they weren't related by blood. Sappy and nonsensical, I know, but I just really like the fact that this tale was created in the first place. Plus it makes sense for Obi-Wan's character, since he always talks about seeing things from different points of view
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I remember reading an issue of Tales of the Jedi or some other Star Wars comic book when I was really young in which an ancient Sith Lord (I can't remember if it was Ulic-Qel Droma or someone like that) destroyed an entire solar system with the power of the force. I also remember reading another comic strip about Dass Jennir, the rogue Jedi survivor of Order 66, and it had some evil human guy mention that he ate one of Jennir's teammates' kids. Oh, and there was also a comic in which normal, non-force-sensitive rebel pilots showed up as force ghosts somehow after they died. I'm not even going to bring up the insanely awesome Tag & Bink comics. Man, the EU was epic. And weird. Very, very weird.
(The title refers to Chewbacca's bronze-lightsaber wielding son, Lowbacca, and he is undisputably the most amazing character ever conceived in the EU, so I thought 'why don't I name it after him?')
I recently discovered on an obscure indie superhero database website that Obi-Wan Kenobi apparently has a brother called Owen. In the Return of the Jedi novelisation, Obi-Wan referred to Owen as his brother, which obviously can't be true since they share little interactions with each other in the movies. It turns out that years later (as in, literally a few years ago at the time of me writing this), someone realised this inconsistency existed and wrote a story about Obi-Wan seeing visions of a supposed brother that he never knew called Owen. When he arrived on Tatooine to give Luke to the Lars family, he met Owen Lars for the first time and realised that this Owen was indeed his brother, even though they weren't related by blood. Sappy and nonsensical, I know, but I just really like the fact that this tale was created in the first place. Plus it makes sense for Obi-Wan's character, since he always talks about seeing things from different points of view
. I remember reading an issue of Tales of the Jedi or some other Star Wars comic book when I was really young in which an ancient Sith Lord (I can't remember if it was Ulic-Qel Droma or someone like that) destroyed an entire solar system with the power of the force. I also remember reading another comic strip about Dass Jennir, the rogue Jedi survivor of Order 66, and it had some evil human guy mention that he ate one of Jennir's teammates' kids. Oh, and there was also a comic in which normal, non-force-sensitive rebel pilots showed up as force ghosts somehow after they died. I'm not even going to bring up the insanely awesome Tag & Bink comics. Man, the EU was epic. And weird. Very, very weird.
(The title refers to Chewbacca's bronze-lightsaber wielding son, Lowbacca, and he is undisputably the most amazing character ever conceived in the EU, so I thought 'why don't I name it after him?')
