{"id":1974,"date":"2010-10-19T17:49:17","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T17:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/random-average.com\/?p=1974"},"modified":"2010-10-19T17:54:28","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T17:54:28","slug":"finding-the-fun-in-star-wars-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/2010\/10\/finding-the-fun-in-star-wars-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding the fun in Star Wars again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jeffs Gameblog: Episode IV: What we know, what we don’t know<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Some good thinking on the original Star Wars movie.<\/p>\n

“Maybe there is no Jedi Order.\u00a0 Maybe Jedi Knights are exactly like medieval knights: a warrior class sworn to various lords.\u00a0 Obi-Wan as a vassal of Leia’s father?\u00a0 Maybe Jedi had a wide range of allegiances, agendas and abilties.\u00a0 Their martial training and religious devotion to the Force may be the only threads that unify them.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Comment from S. John Ross:<\/p>\n

My childhood image of the clone wars was a war that had been artificially extended by cloning on both (or all) sides … a war that should have burned itself out in a few years, but that dragged on for generations, instead.<\/p>\n

So, there wasn’t a good-guy clone army and there wasn’t a bad-guy clone army. There wasn’t even, specifically, a clone army on any side at all … just a war extended by filling the ranks with clones wherever needed to keep the meat-grinder grinding.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Speaking of that, I remember some fun supposing that I got into with a friend of mine before one of our Amber games back in 1996.<\/p>\n

We sat around a table at Red Robin and worked out how the current Obi-wan was actually a clone. During the Clone Wars Ben Kenobi (who was closely allied with Organa) was brought down by a half dozen or so clones of himself). He rescued his Lord (Organa) and killed most of the clones, but one of them — the main one: OB-1 — survived and replaced him.\u00a0After the Wars were done, with no other imperative to pursue, the clone just retired under the assumed persona.<\/p>\n

Also, there’s a good post over here<\/a> about “jedi robes,”<\/p>\n

Finally, check out this post<\/a> for the prologue of Alan Dean Foster’s novelization of the original movie.<\/p>\n

“They were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Naturally they became heroes.”
\n\u2014 Leia Organa of Alderaan, Senator<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Where am I going with this? Maybe nowhere except a happy place in 1978.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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