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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
No you're not ruining it, I posted it because I love the discussion around it.
I screwed up the ending by having the wrong person killing Luke. But wanted him to intentionally fade so it leaves it open to a Force Ghost Luke advising his son. I also wanted Luke to die at the hands of his niece because in the Bane books and in the Legacy series and it even hinted at in the Prequel. In order to truly gain power with the darkside you have to sacrifice something near and dear to you (Anakin realizes in the end that he has to sacrifice the love of Padme and the Jedi Order to gain power, in the Legacy books Jacen has to sacrifice the love of his nephew, even in the Plageus book Palpatine slaughters his family to discover his power)
I left the final state of Leia up for question, the idea of a cliff hanger where she could return or be dead would be interesting.
I also wanted to get Palpatine into the story line without him being a clone or a Sith force ghost. I thought it was important that he remained dead so we don't completely crap on the whole 6 part series. But I thought Palpatine was one of the stronger characters in the Star Wars univers and pure evil and the possibility that he could seduce a power full Jedi or two into rebuilding the Sith would be great.
We do know that Jaina kills Luke in my rewrote. I thought that would be a cool thing to do and add emotional impact. But are we sure that Jacen is the figure on the Throne or is it someone else.
I also thought that the seduction line that only the Sith were powerful enough to bring Justice and Order to the GFFA would be a different seduction line to the pure you will gain personal power and save someone.
If I was to write a full treatment the Galaxy would still be in the middle of a 40 year planet shattering civil war between the Forces of the empire and the new republic. We could even have Luke debating with his students about how far one should go to secure peace and liberty in the galaxy and one of the Jedi to say you can't have true peace with liberty or something like that.
But I think that the above could lay the way for the usual formula of the New Republic becoming the Rebellion again and all hope being lost in the second movie.
We could also bring back a lot of the characters from the EU and the original and prequel movies and TCW and rebel series as well.
Anyways I'm doing this as a fun exercise and I enjoy the feedback.
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The reason why I said I was ruining it, was my idea kept Luke and Leia alive. What made your idea so cool and refreshing was killing Luke and Leia the shock of the finality of the heros of Episodes 4-6. My idea keeps them alive, and borrows the idea of Ben Kenobi's ghost.
What I didn't like about your idea is that it changes the EU. In my ideal world they would work with what has already been written in the EU and ensure that these new movies don't erase what we've already read and taken upon as the way things have happened. Some of those books may be crap, but they are all a piece of the EU.
Either way, I'm still excited to go see a new Star Wars movies in the theatres and to be able to take my kids so they can also experience Star Wars in the theatres.