Originally posted by Anakin_the_HuttGlibness is rarely cute, this time being no exception. But just in case you really didn't pick up on what he was saying: the EU has "traditionally" been the non-George Lucas realm. But ever since his involvement with the The Clone Wars, he can officially put his name in the roster of writers for EU. But the vast majority of the Expanded Universe--TotJ, KotOR, Bane trilogy, everything post-RoTJ--is still outside his radius of Care. He has openly said that all that is not "(his) Star Wars".
What do I believe qualifies as EU? Well, EVERYTHING that is in the EU...I believe qualifies as EU.
Originally posted by Jinsoku TakaiI wonder how he survived that long-ass fall. The injury, to me, isn't so much a factor. Anakin had 3 limbs cut off and his entire body was f*cking cooked. Maul got sliced at the hip. You can see him screaming all the way down...it's the fall that gets me.
Agreed, to a certain extent. It is risky, but may well kick ass also.
I don't think he's a clone. He could've been resurrected by the Witches - but, then why be in exile? How in the hell did he survive?
"He lives in the Outer Rim...in exile."
Originally posted by Anakin_the_HuttSince maul was just a tool what woudl sidous need with him now?What i-.........You do make a good point,but I am just going off of what Mother Danzyo said.She sent his brother there so he had to have survived. Well I just thought of something!!We all know sidous took a great fall and was cloned but with the night sisters resources they could easily keep him from dying with their spells. But I did some research and found out that it is unknown how the formed him again but a group called the prophets of the dark side brought him back to live after the battle of yavin.But it was not cloning from the records of their history.But if it helps the matter one sith who lived for over a thousand years did have the rank of shadow hand after he died a SECOND TIME.
I wonder how he survived that long-ass fall. The injury, to me, isn't so much a factor. Anakin had 3 limbs cut off and his entire body was f*cking cooked. Maul got sliced at the hip. You can see him screaming all the way down...it's the fall that gets me.I don't think he's a clone. He could've been resurrected by the Witches - but, then why be in exile? How in the hell did he survive?
"He lives in the Outer Rim...in exile."
I've never liked how magic infiltrated Star Wars. Many authors and writers took the Force as some blank check and started attributing every sort of weird power and ritual they could to it. The incantations, and rituals, and glowing aura all felt too... fantasy-esque to me. I prefer the telekinetic/precognitive/Lightning style magic that the movies made the Force out to be. All the EU's use of alchemy and relics and energy blasts never felt right. Made Force users some omni-powerful sect that utterly dominated anyone who wasn't them. Vader's Choke used to be so badass, and Palpatine's Lightning was so f*cking cool... but now, if you can't cleanse a planet of life you're a small fry. Entire fleets of ordinary soldiers are obliterated at a thought. Stars blowing up. Whole populations being drained of life. Massive illusions in the sky.
What's the point of having ships and soldiers when what really matters, to paraphrase Kaan, is "We need more Dark Lords!"? That's why games like Jedi Knight and the first KotOR were so f*cking awesome: Jedi and Sith had Force pushes and Lightning and Drain, but even the best of them were small scale and couldn't hold up against tougher opponents, and certainly not overwhelming laser fire, and starfighters or capital ships--you know, the Science Fiction part of Star Wars.
*sigh*
I guess what I'm trying to say is: F*ck the comics, and f*ck The Force Unleashed.
When you get down to it, SW is fantasy in space. You can take just about any element in SW and find its equivalent in standard fantasy.
Force = Magic
Dark Side = Black Magic
Sith = Evil Overlords
Jedi = Good Wizards
- Planets effectively function as your standard fantasy kingdom or empire, just with fancy magical tech.
- Military tactics in SW consist of large groups of soldiers rushing at each other, same as in most fantasy.
- Epic scope, good vs evil, huge galaxy/world shifting battles.
I could go on, but SW has never been strongly science fiction. I mean, I could recreate the entire story of the PT in a fantasy setting and aside from some superficial differences in numbers and technology, you wouldn't know the difference.
Originally posted by Lord Lucien
I've never liked how [b]magic infiltrated Star Wars. Many authors and writers took the Force as some blank check and started attributing every sort of weird power and ritual they could to it. The incantations, and rituals, and glowing aura all felt too... fantasy-esque to me. I prefer the telekinetic/precognitive/Lightning style magic that the movies made the Force out to be. All the EU's use of alchemy and relics and energy blasts never felt right. Made Force users some omni-powerful sect that utterly dominated anyone who wasn't them. Vader's Choke used to be so badass, and Palpatine's Lightning was so f*cking cool... but now, if you can't cleanse a planet of life you're a small fry. Entire fleets of ordinary soldiers are obliterated at a thought. Stars blowing up. Whole populations being drained of life. Massive illusions in the sky.What's the point of having ships and soldiers when what really matters, to paraphrase Kaan, is "We need more Dark Lords!"? That's why games like Jedi Knight and the first KotOR were so f*cking awesome: Jedi and Sith had Force pushes and Lightning and Drain, but even the best of them were small scale and couldn't hold up against tougher opponents, and certainly not overwhelming laser fire, and starfighters or capital ships--you know, the Science Fiction part of Star Wars.
*sigh*
I guess what I'm trying to say is: F*ck the comics, and f*ck The Force Unleashed. [/B]
Yeah, **** 'em!!
Don't forget about the Flow Walk!
I like the more outlandish aspect when they are a natural consequence of manipulating the energy field of life. So mind-altering, essence-stealing, life-cleansing goodness is fine for me. Creating armies of soldiers from nothing, or Kun's blaster cannonsAmulets, for example, are less peachy.
Heinlein is science fiction. Clarke is science fiction. Larry Niven is science fiction.
Star Wars is fantasy in space where massive starships massing at millions of tons can accelerate at several thousand Gs (talk about one crazy specific impulse) and not get sheared to pieces by tensile stress due to the immense force of acceleration.
Basically what I'm saying is that just because it is in space, doesn't make it science fiction. Little about SW is dependant upon the vacuum.