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10-18-2013, 12:08 AM | #185461 |
Night Force
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Retcon is short for retroactive continuity. Making a decision after the fact to alter the meaning of something that came before.
In this case, 20 some years after ROTJ came out, after Timothy Zhan (author) had introduced the character Mara Jade, someone at lucasfilm noticed "hey, this actress in Jabba's palace kinda looks like her" and since her last task was to assassinate Luke (Oh, did we mention that Mara Jade was Emperor Palpatine's personal assassin?) it made perfect sense for her to be undercover there. And thus that actress who was a previously unnamed extra was henceforth supposed to be mara jade.
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10-18-2013, 12:10 AM | #185462 |
Night Force
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I still will like it though. ;p
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10-18-2013, 12:11 AM | #185463 |
Darth_Henning
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Some are good:
When Episode II came out, the 'backstory' for Boba Fett that some author (forgot who) wrote in the mid 90s was changed to be a cover story Boba used that was actually Jango's story of growing up. (and worked very nicely in the subsequent comic series). Some are bad: Ryloth has for 20 years been a planet that is tidaly locked with its sun (like the moon with earth) so one side was burning hot, and one side was frozen, with a narrow habitable zone that was so dangerous all the Twileks lived underground. In Clone Wars they showed Twileks living above ground and having days and nights. They retconned that ....well they haven't really yet (as a general rule, Clone Wars caused a LOT of problems) |
10-18-2013, 12:13 AM | #185464 |
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Also, for anyone curious....I'm just going to leave this here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/dsfj0hq64m...%20Wars%29.xls |
10-18-2013, 12:16 AM | #185465 |
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10-18-2013, 12:16 AM | #185466 |
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They're gonna do something with it, I'm sure. The question is, how pissed are people going to be about it? Quote:
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From a pure Trek stand point, neither is very good.
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10-18-2013, 12:19 AM | #185467 |
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nope didnt like the alt universe reboot at all....
2nd i am still like... ok this is supposed to be.... this person... and this is just a repeat of the original movie... so what is this.. a reboot.... a alt... what..
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10-18-2013, 12:21 AM | #185468 |
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Very nice! Gungho body I believe?
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ah agreed. I think we'll soon realize the prequels weren't that bad. |
10-18-2013, 12:24 AM | #185469 |
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The Slaughter is the JP figure that came with the dinosaur set with USA Slaughter head.
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10-18-2013, 12:26 AM | #185470 |
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May steal that |
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