Hey, are we talking about
Star Wars or Harry Potter here? Go and make a thread in the book club. I'm sure Civ would be more than happy to continue the discussion with you there.
I feel like I'm behind the eight ball with this thread. The discussion is going in all directions and in the middle of it, we have Kurgan and Rosenrot's traditional point/counterpoint argument. Keep up the good work, guys. And though I don't intend to get into one of those discussions again, I did notice, Rosenrot, that you tried to defend the inconsistency of Luke and Leia's mother dying half a second after she gave birth. I've gotta hand it to you - that's pretty valiant because as far as I can remember, no-one's tried to put up a well-thought argument for that (just the standard 'the force explains everything' response).
However, Kurgan's right. If somebody asks someone else about their mother, their
real mother, they are clearly fetching for
biological mother. Also, remember the whole point of that exchange was that Luke was trying to find out about
his mother (since Lucas had decided that he and Leia would be twins at that point in time). So if Leia had for some strange reason completely misunderstood the question, when Luke told her that she was his sister, she would then have had to say something like - "Oh! You were trying to find out about our biological mother just before, weren't you? Oh, I'm sorry. I was talking about my favourite nanny."
Anyway, carry on. Enjoy yourselves.
Honestly however, as an aside, it would have made so much more sense if Luke and Leia's mother had been someone on Alderaan, who after losing Anakin, married Bail Organa. That would also do more justice to the line "She was very beautiful, kind... but sad." Sad that the man she thought would stay with her forever became someone the galaxy hated and feared... sad because she had been forced to separate her kids to give them a better shot at staying anonymous. Anyway, Lucas had his chance and screwed it up. More good reason to ignore the prequels.
Also, excellent point by Civilian about Vader's role in the original
Star Wars. I still don't know why Lucas and his rabid fanboys are so insistent that the whole thing was planned from the get-go when it wasn't. I mean, I write stuff myself and I
completely understand making up stuff as you go. It's called the creative flow. You get to writing out your story or your series (or whatever it may be) and every now and then, you get to a point where you think "I know I didn't plan this but that would be pretty nifty."
Everyone does it. But it seems that only one person feels he has to deny doing it.
Furthermore, writers talking about how their original ideas changed in the writing process actually makes for a more interesting interview too.
This post has been edited by Just your average movie goer: 26 August 2007 - 07:51 PM