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<blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 1459326" data-attributes="member: 2205">Yeah, but I'm not really convinced that it does so on purpose.&nbsp; Then again, I'm also not much of a fan of Campbell's thesis.&nbsp; I think it's almost too vague; it's too easy to fit stories into the Campbell Path of the Hero.&nbsp; It's just a requirement of good storytelling that many of his commonalities will occur. Oh, I agree.&nbsp; I wasn't trying to imply that you were saying Star Wars was Grim and Gritty, especially after the big thread of a week or two ago on Grim and Gritty.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />&nbsp; I don't know that the darkness is not acknowledged, though.&nbsp; It's been hard to not acknowledge that there's a darkness in the Star Wars movies from the very beginning, and Empire really clinched it.I agree, it is fun.&nbsp; I still think Rise of the Empire is the best title I've heard, though.&nbsp; Maybe it's simply too obvious, and Lucas won't pick it for that reason.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Desdichado, post: 1459326, member: 2205"] Yeah, but I'm not really convinced that it does so on purpose. Then again, I'm also not much of a fan of Campbell's thesis. I think it's almost too vague; it's too easy to fit stories into the Campbell Path of the Hero. It's just a requirement of good storytelling that many of his commonalities will occur. Oh, I agree. I wasn't trying to imply that you were saying Star Wars was Grim and Gritty, especially after the big thread of a week or two ago on Grim and Gritty. ;) I don't know that the darkness is not acknowledged, though. It's been hard to not acknowledge that there's a darkness in the Star Wars movies from the very beginning, and Empire really clinched it. I agree, it is fun. I still think Rise of the Empire is the best title I've heard, though. Maybe it's simply too obvious, and Lucas won't pick it for that reason. [/QUOTE]

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