|
 |
Darth Ninja
Senior Member
Registered: Apr 2001
Location:
|
 EU in Episode II . . .
As I pointed out well over a year ago, EU is relevant . . . for ideas. TPM showed this with Darth Maul's double bladed lightsaber idea being inspired from Exar Kun's double bladed lightsaber in Tales of the Jedi: The Sith War.
Episode II continued with the use of a swoop bike (also seen in ROTJ: SE), originally from Shadows of the Empire.
Episode II also showed Obi-Wan blocking Force Lightning with lightsaber. That was first done in Dark Force Rising and The Last Command by Luke against Joruus C'boath.
EU does provide wonderful stories outside the movies and once in a thousand blue moons it may sneak into the canon of the films.
What EU will we see in Episode III? Only time and GL will tell.
|
May 17th, 2002 12:48 AM |
|
|
| |
|
Ushgarak
Paladin
Registered: Sep 2000
Location: Chelmsford, Essex, UKCo-Admin
|
It is often assumed that things like the double-bladed sabre were lifted from the EU. There is nothing at all to support this. Just because they appeared in the EU first does not mean that GL simply took the idea from the EU.
None of these things are startilingly original ideas; it gets to the point where people say that pushing with the Force was 'taken' from the Jedi Knight computer game, which is plain silly. That people can independantly have such obvious ideas is hardly evidence of the EU ebing this big copied source for GL.
That said he can, of course, take stuff from the EU if he likes, but its mostly drops in the ocean. I'm pretty sure the mention of the Death Star in AOTC does the EU little favours.
But the important point is that the EU is NOT automatically wrong just because it is EU. Non-canon does not mean complete nonsense.
The only thing about the EU (being non-canon) is that it is not NECESSARILY right. Unlike canon, which is ALWAYS right.
__________________
"We've got maybe seconds before Darth Rosenberg grinds everybody into Jawa burgers and not one of you buds has the midi-chlorians to stop her!"
"You've never had any TINY bit of sex, have you?"
BtVS
Last edited by Ushgarak on May 17th, 2002 at 05:45 PM
|
|
May 17th, 2002 01:04 AM |
|
|
| |
|
Darth Ninja
Senior Member
Registered: Apr 2001
Location:
|
I always looked at EU as non-canon. If GL uses EU ideas . . . great! If not . . . oh, well. 
|
|
May 17th, 2002 01:08 AM |
|
|
| |
|
Jedi Mercenary
Shotgun Pete
Registered: Aug 2001
Location: Reno,NV born in Gresham O
|
They had jedi starfighters in Tales of the Jedi: Dark Lords of the Sith too.
__________________
Club ad: " No sports or gang attire allowed"
Harvey Lesh(Merc's dad): " Why would we go if we weren't going to wear our gang attire??!!"
|
|
May 17th, 2002 04:33 AM |
|
|
| |
|
Emperor Helmet
Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2002
Location: United States
|
Actually, those aren't EU ideas.
|
|
May 17th, 2002 05:42 PM |
|
|
| |
|
finti
Senior Member
Registered: Dec 2000
Location:
|
Hey Georgie boy have fed those writers with info they could use in their EU histories one example is that Zahn was allowed to use the name Coruscant in his Trawn trilogy
|
|
May 17th, 2002 08:29 PM |
|
|
| |
|
Emperor Helmet
Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2002
Location: United States
|
Exactly.
|
|
May 17th, 2002 08:33 PM |
|
|
| |
|
yerssot
Senior Member
Registered: Jul 2001
Location:
|
ow... where's Aayla Secure in the first post?
|
|
May 17th, 2002 10:22 PM |
|
|
| |
|
Julie
The Student
Registered: Aug 2001
Location: New Jersey
|
I don't know...i'll just wait for the movie to find out 
__________________
May the force be with you
|
|
May 19th, 2002 05:41 AM |
|
|
| |
|
yerssot
Senior Member
Registered: Jul 2001
Location:
|
it's the blue twilek Jedi, if you were interested
|
|
May 19th, 2002 08:50 AM |
|
|
| |
|
| All times are UTC. The time now is 08:41 AM. |
|
|
| |
Forum Rules:
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
|
HTML code is OFF
vB code is ON
Smilies are ON
[IMG] code is ON
|
|
Text-only version |
|
|
