Amusing Rumour Regarding Star Wars Underworld, Plus Frank Quitely Art!

[espanolbot]

In an apparent leaked detail of the Star Wars: Underworld tv show (yes, it's getting a live action tv show now too), a thing has been suggested that could probably annoy the fans of the original movies.
http://www.slashfilm.com/tv-time-travel-change-entire-star-wars-mythos/

Namely that: Seemingly taking a page from the recent Star Trek movie, the show will involve a bunch of Rebels using time travel to go back to try and stop Darth Vader from ever existing. Whether this means trying to murder Anakin as a child or just stop him from turning to the Dark Side, I don't know. Could potentially erase the original movies and form an alternate timeline like the JJ Abrams movies... but I personally think that it's more likely that it's going to revolve around the Rebels trying and failing to change the future, or through their actions causing Vader to be created purely by their attempts to stop it from occuring. Or something.

Personally I think that this could be interesting, as although I've seen the original films I'm not exactly invested in the franchise to the extent I am in, say, Doctor Who. Or any given Gerry Anderson series.

For legality, here's this,


I want to know more about this woman.
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=36645

Comments

[icon_uk]

I suspect it'll be a short story arc, rather than an underlying plot point.

I want to know more about this woman.

Cass Cain, a long time ago, in a galaxy far far away?

[shadur]

I would be completely and utterly okay with that.

[espanolbot]

Huh, giving Cass telekinesis and precogition might be kind of unfair for everyone else, that is if she keeps her bodyreading and semi-superhuman speed and agility.

Though if she were to kill her non-killing policy it'd make things fairer for her enemies, as she'd have to try extrahard to not maim or murder them.

[auggie18]

I assumed it was Leia. 'cause, when I see Star Wars and the character is a woman, Leia is usually a safe guess.

[icon_uk]

Her skintone is all wrong for Leia though.

[bewareofgeek]

Might be a "What If Luke & Leia were switched" piece. That is, Leia went to Tattooine, and Luke went to Alderaan.

[icon_uk]

I always wondered if they had a talk about that.

"You mean you grew up in the lap of luxury, as the beloved princess, in a magnificent palace on one of the most beautiful worlds in the entire galaxy, and I got to live in a dustbowl as the nephew of a dirt-poor, bad-tempered moisture farmer? I'm all for balance in the Force, but that's REEEEEALY pushing it.."

[arilou_skiff]

Alderaan ain't all that hot. It's laggy as hell.

[laddical]

Ugh. I just... I hate Quitely's art. I hate how lumpy everything is.

And then there's the little thing that there's no *blood* in Star Wars. The most blood... the only blood... that I can remember in the movies is in A New Hope when Ben slices off Ponda Baba's arm and Luke's mauling-by-real-life-circumstances in Empire. That kind of gore has no place in Star Wars.

[biod]

In the movies? Sure.
In the expanded universe that this is a part of/takes inspiration from? Nooooooooo.

But lightsaber wounds shouldn't cause that much of a mess.

[ian_karkull]

I for one would gladly pay good money for just pages upon pages of someone gruesomely murdering that fucking kid.

[espanolbot]

It does amuse me that they took one of the most iconic villains in film history and not only cast the younger versions of him with TWO very bad to average actors, and then had him come across in the writing as a really annoying and whiny person.

Though, on the plus side, Natalie Portman and Kiera Knightley are awesome, and the focus should really have been more on them. Even though the idea of an elected 14 year old queen was kind of stupid.

Also SLJackson was awesome too, as was Ewan McGregor. In fact, just have it the Portman, Knightley, Jackson, MacGregor show, and it'd be fine.

[sharky_chan]

I don't know...the prequel certainly explains where Luke got his whininess from -- it's genetic! And it is kinda interesting to realize Vader is throwing little temper tantrums throughout the original rather than being the stone-cold badass I grew up thinking he was.

That said, I'd gladly trade his canon fall to the Darkside for...anything...more interesting and plausible =.=.

[icon_uk]

Luke I could forgive being a little bit whiny as his uncle really was something of a manipulative bully, and he had to grow up with that.

[mastiff]

I think writing lil' Vader as a whiny kid / emo teen was a huge mistake because it was so hard to sympathize him at any point in his life during a 7 hour set of movies. If Luke had turned to the dark side in Return of the Jedi, there would have been shock and a real sense of loss, because he a Good Kid.

Tragedy works best when the hero suffers a fall from grace. When the "hero" starts unlikeable and just gets more annoying with time, it's really hard to build sympathy. In fact, it's a relief when he finally gets dipped in lava, if only because you know that his whiny, self-absorbed, entitled, poorly-acted voice is about to be upgraded to James. Earl. Fucking Jones.

[sharky_chan]

Oh, don't get me wrong -- I agree that Anakin's motivations and actions were completely unsympathetic.

As much as I mock Luke for being whiny, he's my absolute favorite character in the trilogy, because of his development. He feels like a full character because he's got believable flaws and an actual personality in addition to being a really good, noble person. Rather than the tragedies of his life breaking him, like they did Anakin, he instead shines. That's awesome.

The prequel could have been a juxtaposition of Anakin's fall to Luke's redemption of Vader. Instead it just went through the motions of showing Anakin's fall from grace, rather than actually making it weighty and meaningful. To me, that's the real tragedy of the prequels. They had all the elements they needed to be something fantastic, but they just weren't.

So basically I wouldn't have a problem with Anakin being emo and whiny if there were more to him. Pettiness is a really interesting trait, especially in an otherwise sympathetic character, and I'd have loved to see the prequel as a study of a good-hearted person getting broken down by the cruelty and sorrow around him.

[mastiff]

"So basically I wouldn't have a problem with Anakin being emo and whiny if there were more to him. ...

Yeah, you're right, that could have worked too. Watching a good actor play a flawed character can be even more enjoyable.

I wish Lucas had taken some of his CGI budget to hire writers, particularly for the dialogue. He managed to snare some talented actors and gave them absolutely nothing to work with.

[shadur]

The latest remake of Phantom Menace puts the entire movie in 3D -- except the actors, which remain mostly one-dimensional at best.

[icon_uk]

The saddest part is that when you look at the audition footage for Ep1, no matter how bad you may think Jake Lloyd was, he really WAS the best they had apparently.

[eyz]

I find the idea of a live serial Star Wars a lot more interesting than the whole prequels combined!
They better do the ol' movies justice...

Also, I'd love it to be self-contained one hour stories rather than a big epic on-going storyline.