A Jedi's death?

George Lucas does not approve anything personally, however EVERYTHING that is Star Wars EU, from books to comics to cartoons to action figures is ALL approved or disapproved by his staff at Lucasfilm. Star Wars is his baby and they watch over it VERY closely, they are VERY nitpicky about technical things, IE: one of the novels had Luke saying "that's ok, I only need one hand to fly an x-wing". Lucasfilm sent them a footnote that said "two hands" and it had to be corrected before it could be published. Now the reason EU is not considered "canon" is because as picky as Lucasfilm is, they also give the authors a lot of freedom when it comes to storylines, characters, developements and even time frames. They consider that stuff to be part of the writers' creativity and they try not to impose on that if they don't absolutely have to. So, you get a lot of writers who are doing Star Wars and none of them know what the others are writing and they contradict each other left and right on stories, characters and time frames and wala, the EU has no credability.

So lucasfilm is sort of like GL's baby sitter.?

no, GL has the final word of course!

Yeah dont we have a finale word with baby sitters.?

You got it.

Yeah thats what i was saying.

you just said it, yerssot. goerge lucas has the final word. thanx

Man im confused.

I don't blame you, it is kinda complicated, basically it breaks down to this, George Lucas is the sole owner of the entire Star Wars franchise, Lucasfilm is his company that he ceated to {among other things} help him over see it all bacause he can't do it all himself. As far as the EU goes, George can't possibly approve or disapprove every page of every book that is written, he'd have no time to do anything else, so he has his staff at Lucasfilm do it for him, only the very major things like the death of Chewbacca, etc, MUST be approved by George personally, but he's too busy and important to do the "nitpicky" stuff. Think of George as the Emperor and Lucasfilm as Vader. I might point out that George owns all the EU characters as well, Mara Jade, Xizor, Thrawn and everyone else you want to name are all copyrighted as property of Lucasfilm, when an author is hired to write a novel about Star Wars, he/she is working for Lucas, and their work becomes the property of Lucasfilm at the signing of the contract. So, Timothy Zahn created the characters of Mara Jade and Thrawn, but Lucasfilm owns them, much like Bob Kane created Batman, but DC Comics owns Batman because he was created through comissioned work for them. I hope this helps 'cause now I need an asprin, lol. peace, Blade.

All right guys, you seem like a nice group, so I, an SW fan, will let you in on the "disappearing secret!" 💃 💃 💃 All right, when a Jedi dies, his/her body disappears into the Force only if he or she is ready to die! Take the example of Qui-Gon. His death (to him) was unexpected. His mind was also not clear; the training of Anakin weighed heavily on his mind. However, Obi-Wan sacrificed himself, ready to die. Yoda, on Dagobah, knew he would die; he had finished training Luke, and his Jedi business was complete. Paraphrasing, a Jedi will only disappear into the Force if he or she is ready to die. Make sense?

damn, blade, howd you know that? makes a lot of sense. i thought that a jedi disappeared when he or she made themselves at one with the force.

Originally posted by YodaFan465
All right guys, you seem like a nice group, so I, an SW fan, will let you in on the "disappearing secret!" 💃 💃 💃 All right, when a Jedi dies, his/her body disappears into the Force [B]only if he or she is ready to die! Take the example of Qui-Gon. His death (to him) was unexpected. His mind was also not clear; the training of Anakin weighed heavily on his mind. However, Obi-Wan sacrificed himself, ready to die. Yoda, on Dagobah, knew he would die; he had finished training Luke, and his Jedi business was complete. Paraphrasing, a Jedi will only disappear into the Force if he or she is ready to die. Make sense? [/B]

I have to side with yerssot, in the end of ROTJ, Vader fullfilled his destiny and brought balance to the Force {Luke didn't kill anyone in that duel, The Emperor and Vader killed each other} Vader knew his job was done, he accepted his death and yet, he didn't disappear.

according to the JC on sw.c he did

Originally posted by Rogue Jedi
damn, blade, howd you know that? makes a lot of sense. i thought that a jedi disappeared when he or she made themselves at one with the force.

Originally posted by yerssot
according to the JC on sw.c he did

thing that comes close to it is that it's prophecy related as said a few times (though probably not in this thread anymore)

do you think it may be revealed in the next one????

he said so, yes

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