Originally posted by Phucked Up
He could have, but he didn't. The Expanded Universe is classified as non-canon, and thus Lucas could disregard EVERYTHING from those forms of media and focus only on his own product, but if was easier for him to write when other people had already taken his mantle and established a time line for him to write in and already filled the world with people, abilities, and the like.When I think of Generals, I think of the guys running the battlefield, not the guys out there in the middle of a gun fight with a sword. Yoda was a proper General in the movies I think, except they had to throw in his dueling scenes, which were totally unwarranted. We already knew he was some bad ass Jedi back in the day and we had never seen him do more than stand there or ride on Luke's back. Leave things to our imagination George, you don't always have to spell everything out in 100 pt font.
Exactly! You see where I'm coming from, no casualties except for the Jedi that died. Everything else was either machine or an abomination bred in a lab on Kamino. Even then the Republic didn't really care if the Jedi died because they were recluses for the most part. I wanted to see something more like a recruiting center and people signing up to join the Republic's army. The Republic didn't have an army in the first place because they were said to have been in a time of peace for over a millennium. However once someone starts an uprising they could have started a draft or something.
Originally posted by Phucked UpTrue. He could have easily disregarded it and used his own imagination, rather than falling back on other people's work. If he'd taken the time to plot the basic story out, why didn't he at least see it through rather than patching a bunch of non-canon tales together to create a story which is not only untrue to the original idea, but also has plenty of plot-holes (I've counted a number of them, one of them being the time peroids in between each movie).
He could have, but he didn't. The Expanded Universe is classified as non-canon, and thus Lucas could disregard EVERYTHING from those forms of media and focus only on his own product, but if was easier for him to write when other people had already taken his mantle and established a time line for him to write in and already filled the world with people, abilities, and the like.When I think of Generals, I think of the guys running the battlefield, not the guys out there in the middle of a gun fight with a sword. Yoda was a proper General in the movies I think, except they had to throw in his dueling scenes, which were totally unwarranted. We already knew he was some bad ass Jedi back in the day and we had never seen him do more than stand there or ride on Luke's back. Leave things to our imagination George, you don't always have to spell everything out in 100 pt font.
Exactly! You see where I'm coming from, no casualties except for the Jedi that died. Everything else was either machine or an abomination bred in a lab on Kamino. Even then the Republic didn't really care if the Jedi died because they were recluses for the most part. I wanted to see something more like a recruiting center and people signing up to join the Republic's army. The Republic didn't have an army in the first place because they were said to have been in a time of peace for over a millennium. However once someone starts an uprising they could have started a draft or something.
Yeah, the Generals should stay back and calculate the battle plans etc. Ki-Adi-Mundi or Mace Windu don't seem like the type to run into the middle of a battle with his lightsaber out, because in reality that would be suicide. Perhaps there could be a few Jedi commanders leading groups of soldiers, but there weren't ever meant to be so many Jedi that appear in Clones and Sith. And the Yoda thing, I agree with, that duel scene with Dooku was totally unesecary, how could Yoda do all this jumping around and then 40 years on be totally decrepit? He's suppsoed to have already reached that point by Menace.
I guess the idea of Republic not having an army due to the time of peace is true, but I believe Lucas only came up with that idea because otherwise the Clone army idea wouldn't have made much sense. But either way, the Republic would have to have some way of getting an army (a draft as you said, or something similar).